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Best Addressee Poems

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


Premium Member Lima, Peru
Lima has a pulse
arterial and venous it flows…
	all the colors of the rainbow glow
in the mist of Pacific sea's
hectic days and disco nights
	 beat into...

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Categories: addressee, dedication, life,
Form: Verse



The Younger Me
I'm searching for the younger me,
Together we'll survive.
The person that I used to be
Has ruined all my life.

I wish she helped me understand
What's hidden in...

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Categories: addressee, emotions, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All's Fair
Box marked ‘Fragile, with care’
  Returned to sender 
  C’est la guerre… 
Addressee hostile ~ Beware!...

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Categories: addressee, adventure, scary,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member The Forgotten Holidays
The Forgotten holidays

Written or in this case typed…
correctly; “The” as it was at the beginning correct. 
“Forgotten” as it was naming not the action but...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addressee, celebration, chanukah, christmas, easter,
Form: Narrative
Pencils, Pens, Crayons, and Markers
Pencils, pens, crayons, and markers
Makes me
An artist of the highest degree.
I can make the neatest tree
With a bird family using it as a new addressee....

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Categories: addressee, adventure, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Postman
The postman brings the mail
through rain and snow and hail.
What an example of reliance –
his arrival’s certain as a science!
With care and pride and scrutiny
he...

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Categories: addressee, humor,
Form: Light Verse
I'M Last Years Valentine
Eyes dead to the world
Emotions switched to off
A flame that once burned bright
Burned down and out

Love given does not equal received
Emotions  returned addressee unknown...

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Categories: addressee, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Letter Finally Arrived
The letter was tattered, a bit of the corner torn off
It looked like it had been tumbled in a washing machine.
The address was faded,
but the...

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Categories: addressee, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sweet Nothings
I always say good morning
I always say good night
I send them telepathically
If they don't come by write
So if your heart starts ringing
The phone call is...

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Categories: addressee, devotion, good morning, good
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wistful
"Wistful/Wishful: sometimes if a word can ever be realized, just an 'alphabet' change will suffice," ... by the Poet

The coconuts have gone awry,
and its fronds...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addressee, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs