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Surreal Poems | Examples of Surreal Poetry

Surreal Poems - Examples of all types of surreal poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for surreal.
Facades Dying Star
Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome, bursts on the edges of the atmosphere. Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones, fore a chance never truly appears. A velleity is made at her shooting tomb, deities will not honor this...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, art, bird, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member money
it’s all about $ $$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$ ...Read the rest...
Categories: money, society, surreal,
Form: Concrete
Tea With A Handshake
Crossroads in the desert sands swirls, an orb whirls around as clouds gather, lightning bolt violet violently twirls, roads crack with shotgun thunder. Visage a pearl cascades as she approaches me, cut through the dirt she speaks a litany reverie, “You...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, art, conflict, crazy, dark,
Form: Free verse
Death Knelt
In the cartographies merger with the soul, where topographies bring thought converge, a hidden rose blooms, its petals unfolding, like a cipher's dark emerge, thorns burst contradiction piercing the hymen with certitude, as the benthic depths, a chthonic whisper, exhale the secrets unsaid...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, art, crazy, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Saint Catherine Was Excalibur
I always said tether to the void Not any idealistic reason or choice Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid Because how can one speak with an inside voice Where no one can hear you outside yourself Dawn of...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic



No One Is Looking
Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay Bubble floats to pop Silence yet I sway Miasma tang vitae oh Nueva So they swing on a rope seputchra Momma Mia...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet
Summer Heatwave
Agonizing shrieks, -lips curl, wink* before I was weak, -savage entity spellbound dreams, -madness deity grotesque fusing. -ruler of the fray ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, dark, death, deep, extended
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Peaks
In misty heights, where clouds embrace the stone, Our souls ignite, no longer flesh and bone. Dawn breaks, a spark across the dreaming sky, As master's words make reality fly. We climb through realms where logic bends and twists, Our...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, appreciation, best friend, education,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Life: A Week of Years
The Biblical book of Genesis poetically recounts the undetermined time of creation as happening in a week of seven days. As I look back upon life, which has gone by so quickly, it seems...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, 7th grade, age, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Shadows
August bleeds thoughts of harvest, picking crops shortly, corn husks, rustling leaves in earth tones crimson shadows, bustling golden meadows indigo skies blessed with gushing raindrops almost tears, flowing, gentlest cries of grace summer wars with fall in twilight treetops blessings...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, appreciation, autumn, change, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wonders of a Coral Reef
a massive coral reef just off the shore of a tiny island in the South Pacific a tropical reef filled with sea life galore breathtaking and stunningly majestic like an enormous rainforest on the sea floor rare kaleidoscope of colorful...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, 7th grade, adventure, fish,
Form: Free verse
Jan 20
It was but for a moment that the world was truly mine, silence swallowing the alley of Shriver as a crow circled the gray skin in the sky. I wanted to borrow its wings; I wanted...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, appreciation, bird, death, silence,
Form: Free verse
Her Midnight Dandelion
it flew tipping dewed valleys gleeful melodies to each wandering soul aloof in an eloquent crescents daring fold drifting remedies reminiscing star gazed idyllic desires twinkling a picturesque uplifting in pleasant powdered gleaming faith petals drenched in tapestries twisting laced lavender scented...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, dream, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In The Setting Sun
Jasmine sunset, collapsing between the stars Like tangerine laughter in expressions of poetic Wars, with everlasting passions, Hesitating on the breath of a song, More powerful – glimpse of God’s gestures, Coloring the twilight with the flow of flames, Smashing...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, appreciation, blessing, faith, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Somewhere in Russia
Somewhere in Russia there’s a pond Blotched with the duckweed spots It seems a middle of beyond Although it might be not A frog was sitting on a leaf And then it jumped away Perhaps it sensed a sign...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, 10th grade, dark, games,
Form: Rhyme

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