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


Premium Member Cinder Girl
An ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames...

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Categories: wall,
Form: Rhyme



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: wall, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Matters Not
It hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.

I follow on along a...

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Categories: wall, dark, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Alice Sweet Alice
~Alice Sweet Alice~

        *Like Sisters*
   Everyday -- Holding Hands 
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
  ...

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Categories: wall, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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: wall, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: wall, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: wall, addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: wall, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: wall, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: wall, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: wall, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Laminated Love
Frozen flames pressed between each sheet
I flip every page while taking notes
Censoring every event in my past 
I fall deep when staring at the painting...

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Categories: wall, art, beautiful, desire, fate,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member My Winter
You entered my room
a long time ago
across many summers,
now when this winter looks
at the trees shedding the leaves
you are by the closed window
leaning on the...

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Categories: wall, inspirational, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: wall, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: wall, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things