Best Found Poems
Below are the all-time best Found poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of found poems written by PoetrySoup members
Twilight AuroraLike an interrupted dream
shadows of the one
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.
No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...
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Categories:
found, absence, angst, love,
Form:
Free verse
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
found, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
found, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Cup of EmptyShe pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams
Moonbeams...
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Categories:
found, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At PoetrysoupA
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a
few forests. A ruby red swirls within
its petals beckons awareness of those...
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Categories:
found, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form:
Shape
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...
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Categories:
found, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Like Zephyr BreezeBefore I ever saw those eyes How deeply I loved you.
Before you read my first thought ...
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Categories:
found, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
found, beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Fallen Poet(The Fallen Poet)
Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...
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Categories:
found, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form:
Free verse
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
found, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
found, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
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:
found, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The View From a WindowA view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...
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Categories:
found, life,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
found, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
I See You Says the MoonThey'll have you believe she was lost to the sea,
But the moon would beg to differ.
She was always lost,
Always looking for which way to go.
Or...
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Categories:
found, moon, sea, suicide,
Form:
Free verse