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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.
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
Premium Member Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris" Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere; the dream was eerily familiar, the words and their meanings, read in Syntax, once read between pages of hardcopy in school were aptly ignored - however, our Overlords were...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal,
Form: Narrative
Life - acrostic
L – Little time for choices left on this earth I - I want mine to be God-focused. F - Future kingdoms hold real worth - E - Eternal life in heaven or hell. ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, 11th grade, christian, spiritual,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Hieronymus Dipped
"Hieronymus Dipped" The neurochip sucked me like a lollipop ... mind first into the dream, squeezed my thoughts out like tubes of candy coloured toothpaste all over the deus ex machina, Hieronymus dipped his brush in an attempt to...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liminal Space-Surreality
Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy” Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music Blends of subversive elements and anxious acoustic Solution to loitering the bodega doo dropping Spicy Shiitake broth smelling...Read the rest...
Categories: confusion, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SURREALITY
At No Moon night on way back to home from movie show, suddenly noticed descent Crescent Moon rising slow. ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lessons Learned
On the edge of the leaf, spinning, Out of control, glistening Slowly dancing – a waltzlike trembling, glad to see the hesitation of colors, graceful as sun’s reflection on the waters, lakes of melancholic, drifting soundless and soothed by the twisting,...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, blessing, dream, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maritime Metallic Mind
The cobalt mind of ancient mariner of the seven seas, the surfing sailor tosses on the waves of youthful life, rolls on the curled crests with the splintered moon, drawn into dark agony troughs of the drowned stars, spread...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cut Up Without You
long dark night you never say return to me this orange bedroom its open fire crackling through acetylcholine tongues like fingers bodies arched two spoons smeared in oils red and umber the drifting leaves the streets advertise allegorical objects on a wall not imagery for leaving me lost with innocence and weeping like...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse

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