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Best Reality Poems

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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
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: reality, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: reality, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
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: reality, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: reality, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: reality, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Goodbye
(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reality, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: reality, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Touch
"TOUCH"

I want to touch your life
and leave a mark ...
... a deep impression ...
So you will think of me
and of my smile ...
... my sweet...

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Categories: reality, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Had Money
if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
               ...

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Categories: reality, drug, introspection, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: reality, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: reality, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sundown Meditation
Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes

You’re...

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Categories: reality, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Somewhere Over the Horizon
Deeply dive into my Southern border. .  again
again. .  border around my existence ever so deeply

Somewhere over the Horizon
love is met gently

Images melt...

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Categories: reality, imagery, senses, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Last Letter
Oh 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: reality, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reality, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs