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Words Poems | Examples of Words Poetry

Words Poems - Examples of all types of words poetry to share and read. This list of words poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of words poetry. This list of works about words is an excellent resource for examples on how to write words poems.
Premium Member Only One True Thing
Try to write only one true thing From within where siren songs sing Something to which we all can cling Imagine what joy they might bring Others may bow to crown you king Real wisdom shall forever ring Feel the passion...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry, truth, wisdom, words,
Form: Monorhyme
Polar Winds
Pushing hard against the words the order disarrayed The ultimate guest the consummate stranger so close — so far away (The New Room: December, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: wind, words,
Form: Rhyme



Your mind and your mouth
You can set the mindset and the tone of how your life will be. Yes, you can set the mindset with your thoughts and the tone with your mouth. Guard and protect your mind and speak...Read the rest...
Categories: words, bible, change, life, people,
Form: Narrative

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Premium Member Spirited Gibberish
"Spirited Gibberish" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to what once was, weightless pestilence, plumy blights. Wind-born, am...Read the rest...
Categories: words, corruption, god, identity, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How the echo filters reality
Hearing your words echo back to you is a very powerful thing weather the echo is in nature or comes back to you in the form of someone else echoing your words from another time it is a powerful thing It is...Read the rest...
Categories: words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Already
Already Is the story Of no-time.. Of not-yet For the seeker Longing for Already......Read the rest...
Categories: words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When Love Rested On My Heart
From love, from hope, soft Words flowing from the spirit Graceful, gentle, warm Moments to expose the soul Who hears of love’s quiet glow ...Read the rest...
Categories: words, appreciation, fate, love, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Words
Words Words, words, only words Only words are the words? It powers all the words. Right way the right words ...Read the rest...
Categories: life, words,
Form: Haiku
No Reality to Echo From
No Reality to Echo From To live is to echo a reality In which there is no reality to echo from Because reality as we know it isn't here, nor anywhere It's always moving It's always echoing It’s always shifting...Read the rest...
Categories: words, analogy, deep, image, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation is a Fine Art - 'Bite Size 94' contest
Translation is a fine art wreaks havoc with volition Errors of commission ...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, integrity, language, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They are But Words Some Say
They yank my feelings around Pulling them out of the window of my soul Making me laugh Daring me to cry I feel compromised How dare they not only know me But torment me By showing me their power They are but words...Read the rest...
Categories: words,
Form: Free verse
The Last Words of the Seeker in Sheol
(A tired voice whispers) I think I was put under love's enchanted spell When I first met that wondrous heart That to me Quietly yelled For I've walked so many hard miles in this black sand and yellow...Read the rest...
Categories: words, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Diary Entry Winter Equinox 1670
Beneath a Tree - Diary Entry Winter Equinox 1670 upon the twelfth hour of Winter's gail, for a moment a glorious splashed painting appear.... as the sullin clouds run...run onward toward the east.. in a misty...Read the rest...
Categories: words, beautiful, desire, devotion, friendship,
Form: Haibun
After the Poetry Recital, Saving the Whales!
After the Poetry Recital by Michael R. Burch Later there’ll be talk of saving whales over racks of lamb and flambéed snails. Keywords/Tags: poetry, poem, poems, poet, poets, poetess, write, writing, words, poetry recital, workshop, talk, gossip, rumor, rumors,...Read the rest...
Categories: words, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Something missing
Something missing Seems to be our lot Living as we do in Seeming separation.. Shocking and not To find no finder To find something Is not missing......Read the rest...
Categories: i am, words,
Form: Light Verse

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