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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.
Boogeyman
Feet patter through the leaves of the oak wood Her breaths frantic blond hair bent back Stops swivels and pivots seeing all she could Body sways and she prays for air to catch Then she see it lurch,...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, dark, evil, gothic, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Artist of Time
Burst of scarlet splash of ember Wingspan opens and the colors darken Flap as feathers fly into the air To drift as snow with little care Images flow with new scenes Baby blue azure never change Flock the swarm a vortex Flash...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Family Reunion
Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true This must entrust you knot the thread bear Bang thy drum roll knees follow you we share Needless pain inflicted as I stroked...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, crazy, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member - NOISELESSISTA -
a minmalistic purposeless p!ay in a wake-up call chaos affirmed in the ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, allusion, imagination, introspection, music,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member recycled reflections
crawling words slithering waiting for something questions without answers in the zone of twilight rerror Oh No! erring inhumanly gaslighting becoming gas volcanic eruption savage rays in the breezy trees insanely iconic epic hunt beyond reason a dangerous game a masked requiem for a virulent era a robotic rumination fleeing... raging rubble deliverance...? ...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, society, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Sensitive Behavior
Last night together baby, pains my core. One two three four, one two three four. La la la la la, la life is gonna stop. La la la la la, la husk is gonna rot. Festering in my basement,...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, body, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Calls My Name
The orb calls to me, beckons breast beat, blood in veins permeates, face red with heat, as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax. Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual. I crave this fix, my only reason to exist, addicted to...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captive
held captive his fleshy lips quiver in an oasis of rusted ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glossolalia
"Glossolalia" I closed the external noise out, and upon entry to that strange place the colour of Love, silence broke the heart open like trumpets penetrate the heavens revelations were opening in my mind, and the invisible surrounding me...Read the rest...
Categories: light, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternity In A Telescope
We're all searching for eternity — To, in holy book or telescope, someday see A version of everlasting me Hanging in the heavens of some infinity. That we can with, in spite of, or through A hand of god, philosophy,...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, deep, hope, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon--had no fiddle, The little dog laughed, got smashed as a Poodle, the cow laughed a little, and found the fiddle, The cat played to Nero,...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, fantasy, humor, imagery, irony,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Zero, One, or Two
I Two wiener dogs and their owners so proud Approached each other right there on the green. Then, the hounds commenced at yapping so loud. But that wasn’t the dangdest thing I’d seen. One of them’s front bit the other...Read the rest...
Categories: dog, math, surreal,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Circus Vision
Creepy patience, eerie desires following the dreamlike honeycomb, consistent unawareness, wax in tatters, exhaling fortune-tellers, spooky scenario, come in harlequin mischievous, that is not time, that is your life; brave, remain unhinged, so easy to say until a certain...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, dark, horror, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Called
"The Called" The Electric resides coursing through all, dormant, the Primary waits to be ignited, the impulse Light activated, is called Candide Diderot. ‘24 The rider's name is Faithful and True. ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal,
Form: Free verse

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