Best Emotional Poems
Below are the all-time best Emotional poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of emotional poems written by PoetrySoup members
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
emotional, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
emotional, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...
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Categories:
emotional, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
emotional, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
emotional, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Editing of MeMy words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction
I wanted to resist...
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Categories:
emotional, conflict, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen NooseAnxiety (The Worst Noose In Town)
-- like flooding waters, creeping in
I count 30, seconds, holding my breath again
Drowning in agitation, overwhelmed by...
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Categories:
emotional, angst, anxiety, conflict, crazy,
Form:
Epic
WallpaperWALLPAPER
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Paper Thin
Cut down to any size,
Crumble, crop me wrong
Pull the insulation from my heart.
Never will I be "A Paper Doll!"
Thank you for calling me...
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Categories:
emotional, change, creation, friend, identity,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Tear-Ful Conversation With My DaughterIt starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...
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Categories:
emotional, i love you, i
Form:
Free verse
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
emotional, america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
emotional, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Love's Chemical DerivativesCan love then, be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...
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Categories:
emotional, love, science,
Form:
Light Verse
Love Has Its CostsTHIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...
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Categories:
emotional, desire,
Form:
Narrative
The CollectorI am a hoarder of antiquities,
offering longevity to ephemera.
Obsessed with an insatiable
urge for accumulation
I fill every available nook
stacking layer upon layer
of emotional possessions…...
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Categories:
emotional, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Gothic Love GrindI find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...
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Categories:
emotional, gothic, love, passion,
Form:
Epic