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Best Proximal Poems

Below are the all-time best Proximal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of proximal poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Unopposed Oxymoron
Unopposed Oxymoron

This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission

Serious...

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Categories: proximal, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Animus
A hiding place, a warm and darkened room,
A lit doorway, bright against the dark,
Cold against the warmth, a frame for odd
Assorted stranger-forms whose faces loom

As...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proximal, dream, imagery, psychological,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Stench of a Broken Heart
When I looked in to her eyes,
In it I saw a prospect of a paradise.
A paradise whose entry was not 
contingent on my righteousness.
My days...

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© Jacob Osae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proximal, emotions, heartbreak, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse

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Storm Inside the Brain
She was beautiful like the rainbow. 
Her fragrant smiling words of luminance. .
Unleashed adrenaline into his mind..
with tactile thoughts of proximal paradise.
His five senses collaborated...

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Categories: proximal, beautiful, break up, crush,
Form: Free verse
Puppy Love Ain'T No Saviour
Advance and dance towards destiny
Galumph
Defy the lie and cry of scrutiny
Triumph 

Over hurdles seen and unseen
Drive and dive to arrive
At the intersection where a queen
Awaits...

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Categories: proximal, poems,
Form: Free verse
Divorce ...(To Rg)
My entire history is not as it should be
I am always now a proximal potential
Twisted into whirlwinds by latent agony
And you the cause of fate's...

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Categories: proximal, angst, life, love, me,
Form: Verse



Entwined
entwined body and soul
art and poetry - divine
prayer to my Lord

entwined black and white,
creates beauty of this world -
proximal difference

entwined by your arms,
mind still roams...

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Categories: proximal, art, love, poetry,
Form: Haiku
The *****'s Annals
THE *****'S ANNALS:

At the table of verdict was the ***** seated;
Breathing his last before senteced to prison.
Couldn't hide the state of how's feeling;
'Dead zone', he...

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Categories: proximal, betrayal, life,
Form: Lyric
Behind Volcano
White smoke mist contrasts with deep violet ground
River of fire like blood gushes splashing around
Volcano gives off roaring sound
As flaming rocks their way through atmosphere...

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Categories: proximal, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Spider On Vase
Spider on Vase

Poor teetering thing that leeched the rim
To poise and watch the world from summit
It hiked the slope and scaled with ease
Its several legs...

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Categories: proximal, insect,
Form: Blank verse
The Stimulus
when I said bring your hand
she did submit her hand
though the fingertip hesitated
for the amber glow gesticulated

I told her come closer
and she slowly came by
the...

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Categories: proximal, crazy, cute love, emotions,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Eighty Five Below
EIGHTY FIVE BELOW

flapping and gliding
underneath the Springtime clouds
eighty-five below

                ~...

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Categories: proximal, bird, spring,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Champagne Holiday
You so completely enthralled me 
You have struck my fate in
Every minute of all of those days 
In every single loving way I love
You beyond...

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Categories: proximal, day, love, sunset,
Form: Alliteration
Frontline Soldier
What portends this ill wind blowing
which inhaled robs man’s breath
whose virus defiles the proximal space people share?
 Is it the greed of man who has...

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© Mark Meck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proximal, allusion, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
A Reason
Wrinkled edges in my youth 
Flesh, proximal to the bones 
"solarised" Melanin, kindred to burnt sacrifice 
Sketched bruises, signs of storms weathered 
The "hour glass",...

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Categories: proximal, emotions, endurance, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry