Get Your Premium Membership

Best Alfred Poems

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


Premium Member Farewell, Youthful Days of Wading In Crystal Clear Streams
Farewell, Youthful Days Of Wading In Crystal Clear Streams

Farewell, the coming dawn and its soft, golden glow
born as infant fawn, a peaceful river in flow
or...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, art, beauty, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Savage Garden
sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alfred, allusion, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Vanishing Organ
Sam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
 
From whence I salute
is thin...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, funny, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Call Your Mother
Call Your Mother

Pick up the phone...
do it now. 
If you can.
Later if you must, 
I trust that you, 
know the difference. 

She never put you...

Read more of this work...
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alfred, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Do You Love Me
You told me simply we were friends
But you conceal your aching heart
My love for you it never ends
You told me simply we were friends
Dreaming of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, sad love,
Form: Triolet



Premium Member Moonbeams
The moonbeams crossed the horizon
Carrying the sun in its wake
Soft light 'pon the grass like diamonds
The moonbeams crossed the horizon 
Caressing each scrutiny wizened 
Opaque...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, beauty,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member My Old Black and White
What I’d give to wake in the morning and hear those church bells ring
To turn on my old black and white and hear Gene Autry...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, nostalgiaold, friend, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness
"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Texas Wildflower Haiku : Widow's Tears
sun’s heat sunders sand
clustered lanced leaves green hug
widow’s tears collapse

Widow’s Tears is the common name for Commelina erecta var. angustifolia, they bloom on 
Texas beaches...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, death, depression, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku
Abc Love Poem
~My Trip With Love~

A arrival from Montreal to San Francisco seeing my son and his children.
B beautiful red roses on my approach expressing their love...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, journey, love, missing you,
Form: Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grapes
grapes for the best wine
fresh from the richest vineyard
blessed on the altar

grapes for the best wine
fresh from the richest vineyard
connoisseur’s best choice

grapes for the best...

Read more of this work...
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alfred, drink, fruit,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Contest
The Contest

I would like to enter, 
and sometimes I do. 
Occasionally I even win, 
to my surprise. 
How cool!

The true rule, 
to every fool,
or pirate...

Read more of this work...
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alfred, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

Read more of this work...
Categories: alfred, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Sunset Spirit
Sunset Spirit

Close your eyes, 
and stop thinking. 
Take a moment...
breathe.
God is already beside you. 
He has always been there. 
It is you, 
that must slow...

Read more of this work...
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alfred, angel, death, grief, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things