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Best Meter Poems

Below are the all-time best Meter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of meter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: meter, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: meter, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Unsure the Shore
Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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Categories: meter, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Storybook Princess
~ A Storybook Princess ~ 

She dreams of princes, princesses and balls 
   A little girl on tippy-toes, not a meter tall
O, the...

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Categories: meter, dream, fantasy, girl, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Painting With Words
Painting with Words

If I were an artist instead of a poet
I’d paint what I knew as others would know it.

I’d be a Renoir and never...

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Categories: meter, poetry, writing,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: meter, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: meter, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Shoreline
The ocean waves come rolling in
There’s not a soul in sight
With heaving breath they break on shore
And burst in brilliant white.

The sound of wind is...

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Categories: meter, sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: meter, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Quintain
Dear Quintain, how beautiful you are,
allowing us to paint the spacious sea or sky, 
landscapes, or nights’ celestial bodies beckoning from afar.
Even when my quill...

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Categories: meter, nature, poems,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Passion
you                 don't            know 


my                  ...

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Categories: meter, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons…

It was spring and I was young when I had wine.
I was singing and dancing and doing fine. 
The wine was so divine,...

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Categories: meter, age, allegory, allusion, seasons,
Form: Rubaiyat
Dancing Once Again With Words
Dancing once again with words,
As the two of us, embrace--
Another verse, another rhyme
Of waterfalls, and lace.

Romantic words in meter,
Although where's the gentle kiss?
Where's the touch...

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Categories: meter, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Intrusion In the Fray:Response To Tom
Forgive intrusion in the fray
I'm making comments today
Tom's limericks, three
were cute as can be
But of Kim and Jack, I must say.....

We all know how well...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: meter, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member That's Poetry
The difference between good poetry
and great poetry – not a concentration
of words and phrases, nor meter
and rhyme...but the source, that gives
longevity its immortal time –...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: meter, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs