Best Poetry
Below are the all-time best Poetry poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of poetry poems written by PoetrySoup members
How Poetry BeganThat thing that we call poetry -
when asked where it began,
I’d say it started beautifully
before the dawn of man!
It glistened on the oceans
before man came...
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Categories:
nature, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain
Poetry SoapIt’s almost time and I must run
to watch/read Poetry Soap for fun.
It comes on every day at this time
and I don’t want to miss a...
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Categories:
poetry, abuse, conflict, jealousy, love,
Form:
Couplet
Parallel Poetry(PoetrySoup Format)
Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.
~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~
Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating...
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Categories:
poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet Who Never WasI thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...
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Categories:
emotions, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
poetry, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
poetry, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dedicated To All the PoetsAn untouched piano has no purpose,
like a lonely clown without a circus.
A boat has no destiny stuck at shore,
silent like a lion who's lost its...
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Categories:
inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poets AbodeA Poet’s Abode
A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...
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Categories:
art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
poetry, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
poetry, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Swan Ballerina PagesLike delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.
But what are ballerinas with...
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Categories:
poetess, poetry,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
autumn, love, poetry, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
no poet am I -
a poet, you say? pardon no, not am I
there's only ONE poet - He writes on the
sky
of sunsets...
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Categories:
blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
There Is a Poem In My HeartThere is a poem in my heart,
that beats in different dialects.
Da ist ein Gedicht in meinem Herzen,
which flows freely through my veins.
Il y à un...
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Categories:
poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
My Far SideYou say, I’m too far,
towards the far side?
It’s a hazard of my left-handedness,
that I see the logic in abstraction.
Worlds lay within worlds
and colors bleed...
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Categories:
poetry, how i feel, imagination,
Form:
Free verse