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Writing Poems | Examples of Writing Poetry

Writing Poems - Examples of all types of writing poetry to share and read. This list of writing poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of writing poetry. This list of works about writing is an excellent resource for examples on how to write writing poems.
Premium Member Two Poets Meet Collaboration
What do you see when you see trees? My eyes travel each trunk and branch. With feathered leaves in blowing breeze till the chipper comes with a cranch! Your details shine with luminescence - I eschew detail for the...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, feelings, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Definition of A Poet
Definition of a poet: I think a poet is...? A poet is...? A poet...is!...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, inspirational, poetry, poets, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schrodinger’s Dog
Whilst Death and Life spun extra dimensions circling critically lost and trackless Whirling hound brought light spinning new dimensions into an air mattress The spiraling mirror trap entangled moody brooding cat Abandoned meaninglessly half-existing where suggestions and impressions...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, confusion, dog, humor, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End Of The Story
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ when courage called truth · and the dust of rationality settled · each story found its end...Read the rest...
Categories: writing,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member BLANKETY-BLANK VERSE
Alas it is a chore to write Blank Verse Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse In search for words not better but not worse A sad lament of poetry’s last curse To stab the darkness with an ill-used...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, humor, irony, muse, words,
Form: Verse



Facets
Not all those who wander are lost Maybe they love the path and not the destination. Not all those who always wonder are kids Maybe they love to lost in their mind and not in the path of...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, how i feel, peace,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered under the...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Excavation
I profess that, my heart, entombed, as it might appear, knows not another way, other than to find warmth, in the sorrow of my breath, broken softly, by each word, I use, to attempt and explain, how I feel, on any...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
ACCIDENTAL WRITER
I wanted to be everything in my life but not a writer I wanted to scream shout and fight for everything but my timid self couldn't be a fighter, And now  It feels like writing has become an...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, chicago, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
IN A WORLD
"In a world full of deaf listeners an artist sings the song of his heart In the hope that someday someone will embrace his art, In a world full of trendy liars, An old painting is still waiting...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, beautiful, deep, lonely, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
I step out from a second-story window, float along roads of slow-churning lullabies, raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow. A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes, mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow hugged around a thin...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Writing is life
Writing identifies who we are through emotions and memories...Read the rest...
Categories: writing,
Form: Monoku
GHOST
I am the ghost of your journey, Failures of your past, I am a shadow of you, Made of cockroaches of the night , I am a video on silence, Of the uglies in your closet. Can one run...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, abuse, africa, beautiful, change,
Form: Free verse
Words of Pain
I am pouring aggressive tea into cup for drink Don't stare! I am really gonna drink Fun fact is, I do not like flower's beds They give environment a pleasant scent Why these fearing face you are showing Cause...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, anxiety, depression, hurt, write,
Form: Free verse
Words of Pain
I am pouring aggressive tea into cup for drink Don't stare! I am really gonna drink Fun fact is, I do not like flower's beds They give environment a pleasant scent Why these fearing face you are showing Cause...Read the rest...
Categories: writing, anxiety, depression, hurt, write,
Form: Free verse

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Definition | What is Writing in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs