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Best Ado Poems

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


Premium Member Hear Oh L-Rd
The Festival of Lights, Chanukah has arrived
a hopeful time of praise each year revived. 
The Menorah lit, each home becomes a church.
Blessed are You, L-rd...

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Categories: ado, faith, family, happiness, universe,
Form: Kyrielle



Goodbye Darling Peter Pan
Dearest Child-Adventuring Man, My Darling Peter Pan:

Since that never to be forgotten day when Wendy first brought you my way, my heart has been enchanted...

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Categories: ado, change, growing up, love,
Form: Rhyme
Like a Poet Would Do
Let me love you like a poet would do.
Let me bite on the lid of my pen, thinking of you.
Let me write you down on...

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Categories: ado, love, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: ado, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: ado, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: ado, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shake Spear
aim true
don’t shake
spear the beast

measure for measure
this is the taming of the shrew
the tempest as you will

it feels much ado about nothing
as if it is...

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Categories: ado, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Was the Brave
Sat in his chair, the tv still on
He’s not changed the channel for so very long
The message on screen says a shut down’s ensuing
But press...

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Categories: ado, hero, remembrance day, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bard's-Eye View
ado the realms that I have plunged with phrase
          they have no shape - no bound'ries...

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Categories: ado, analogy, metaphor, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Blood-Red Hue
The cycle of night and day starts anew
as a rising sun inks ebony blue.
And causing crystal drops of morning dew
to sparkle like diamonds, Dawn's light...

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Categories: ado, beautiful, change, dark, image,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Eskimo Nell and the Door Repair Man
For Andrea’s contest 
Show me the Funny (part two)

Eskimo Nell & the Door Repair Man

Now Eskimo Nell 
Has a story to tell
A tale, about my...

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Categories: ado, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the...

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Categories: ado, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old West
Lord what I'd give to go back in time.
Meet historical legends Wyatt Earp,
 Or Jessie James, let them leap off 
The written page, and live...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ado, death, fantasy, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gilgamesh
GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people...

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Categories: ado, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form: Epic
Premium Member King Cyrus the Great
CYRUS II - THE GREAT

So; here comes the story of that, King Cyrus the Great 
Whose history for some of us; is still well up...

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Categories: ado, history, leadership, literature, word
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs