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Best Hugo Poems

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


Premium Member The Blue Pond - linocut by Hugo Henneberg
Wild eyed I wade through reflections,  
as I unhook from the moon.  

Branches become nets, become veins,  
that drape from entangling limbs....

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Categories: hugo, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
How Hugo Became Our Friend
I'm a flower fairy, 
And my name is Carrie, 
My best friend is Barry;

All flowers, we do tend, 
Sunrays, on them we send, 
Make sure...

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Categories: hugo, children, dog, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Hugo Victor
A judge ruled a man is not cursed
By the name by which he was nursed
So his wife's not to blame
That his friends cause him shame
When...

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Categories: hugo, french, humor, relationship,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Esmeralda, As Told By the Poet Pierre Gringoire - With Apologies To Victor Hugo
I had been placed in chains 
Where the cripples shed their canes 
And the blind regained the art of seeing.
It was a robbers’ den 
And...

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Categories: hugo, allegory, desire, literature, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Will You Go, Hugo?
Will you go, Hugo, a-marching with me?
Will you go, Hugo, way down to the sea?

Over the hills we go, into the sun
(Shining on flowers and...

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Categories: hugo, children
Form: Lyric
Victor Hugo Translation
Victor Hugo "Love Stronger Than Time"
Translation by Michael Burch

Since I first set my lips to your full cup,
Since my pallid face first nested in your...

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Categories: hugo, french,
Form: Verse



Poem Eviradnus By Hugo
Poem Eviradnus By Hugo

Wherever you may go either fast or slow
Eventually always will have run into Hugo;
A poem created;
Consummated,
And tried and true and then to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hugo, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Book - Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
this great story is comparable ~ to parables in holy writ...

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Categories: hugo, freedom, french, paris, prison,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Flo and Hugo
Frazzled freakish freckled Flo
Generously gives gifts on the go
Huckster Hugo has eyes for Flo
If they get together, who will know?

Just Jeremy, Jenny, Jimmy and Joe
Kindly...

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Categories: hugo, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Tiny Huge Man
Poor huge man who believes
              further large...
     ...

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Categories: hugo, allegory, allusion, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Hurricane
Hugo was a huge hurricane in Carolina
Unfortunately I was homeless then
Right then God being the designer 
Red shelter found with kind garbage man
I had a...

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Categories: hugo, america, angel, angst, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic
Tax
Zafar Khan Down do you pay your taxes?
Why are you interested in different sexes?...

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Categories: hugo, abuse, celebrity, city, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Tiger
Your thick neck and graceful eyes,,
Zafar Khan you are a tiger with ties....

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Categories: hugo, anger, animal, betrayal, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Price Control
In AD 301, a Roman Emperor made a decree
He fixed the price of food and clothes
If you sold for higher, there was a death penalty
If...

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Categories: hugo, america, crazy, culture, fire,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry