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Best Moment Poems

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


One Brief Moment
Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...

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Categories: moment, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: moment, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse
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: moment, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

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Categories: moment, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healing Power of the Drum
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: moment, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member H-E-A-R-T of L-O-V-E
Oh how I love you.
             Cherishing each moment,
     ...

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Categories: moment, i love you, life,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: moment, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Midnight Secret
*Secreto de Medianoche*   
  
~On this very Night~
   I found myself in a
       ...

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Categories: moment, beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: moment, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Touch Me
"In Touch With Myself"

I can't seem to find her
The reminder of yesterday
I shut my eyes for a few seconds
Only there, can I reach to bear...

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Categories: moment, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: moment, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: moment, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: moment, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Stars
Written in The Stars 

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Two hearts bleached by the sun
        A poem's - fallen wish
   ...

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Categories: moment, fantasy, love, muse, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: moment, death,
Form: Rhyme

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