Best Letter Poems
Below are the all-time best Letter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of letter poems written by PoetrySoup members
Letter To Rhapsodical Rose
Here, I scribble a letter
to the rhapsodical rose,
dipping my quill in
stardust that slips
like a violet waterfall
from the tips of
white...
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Categories:
letter, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form:
Free verse
Last LetterOh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...
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Categories:
letter, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form:
Verse
Five Letter WordsNoble Souls
Noble souls arise,
build steps,
forge roads,
carry tough loads,
scale peaks,
quell fears,
dream stars which blaze,
clear those black skies.
These souls would tears erase.
Noble souls offer cheer,
avoid wrath
crush their...
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Categories:
letter, appreciation,
Form:
Verse
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
letter, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
letter, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...
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Categories:
letter, death, garden, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
letter, love, romantic,
Form:
Light 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:
letter, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
BelongingsShadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...
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Categories:
letter, loss, love, me, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
letter, philosophy,
Form:
Shape
To the Dandelion In the ConcreteYou probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...
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Categories:
letter, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form:
Personification
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:
letter, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
letter, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Happiness
Happiness calms like a mother's lullaby.
Happiness is fragile like a butterfly.
Happiness is the first daffodil in spring.
Happiness is listening to a nightingale sing.
Happiness is seeing...
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Categories:
letter, emotions,
Form:
List
When Yesterday Was TodayOn cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely...
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Categories:
letter, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative