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Best Abide By Poems

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


Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abide by, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...

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Categories: abide by, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: abide by, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: abide by, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Interpretation of If By Rudyard Kipling
MY INTERPRETATION OF IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING -  

If you can keep calm when all around you,
Are frustrated, and angry with you,
Always believe in...

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Categories: abide by, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Acorn
Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me...

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Categories: abide by, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: abide by, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Mustard Seed
The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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Categories: abide by, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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Categories: abide by, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P Clark
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom 
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and  Michael P Clarke.


Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my...

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Categories: abide by, art, creation, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: abide by, love, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Bright Light Has Gone Out In Soup Creek
It was coming up for Christmas in the town of Soup Creek
Everyone was in good spirits and they had been all week
Jenna's saloon was very...

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Categories: abide by, america, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Shadows
"If only we choose to see"
        the invisible people,
      Who live in shadows
...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abide by, lost, people, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: abide by, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member My Angel In Disguise- Tribute To Fj Thompson
She saw my pain and gifted me a crown
and named me Queen when I felt like a clown
She sent her gift cross the many miles
And...

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Categories: abide by, angel, friendship, tribute,
Form: Sonnet

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