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Best Aplomb Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: aplomb, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: aplomb, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: aplomb, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To the Hummingbird
I

An ode to the courageous hummingbird
The tiniest bird, but bravest of all
He flits about without saying a word,
When most unexpected he comes to call
Fluttering gossamer...

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Categories: aplomb, bird, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Limbo
Six steeple towers, cold as steel, drab daggers in the sky!	
Their hallowed halls no longer call when breezes wander by –
for, filled with dread to...

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Categories: aplomb, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Taming Tigers
Someday I'll get this sonnet writing right.
Sure, I can count ten syllables and rhyme,
then set my flock of metaphors to flight
and spin ten-dollar words from...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aplomb, poetry, tiger, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Very Cunning Ham
There is a very cunning ham named Tom
Pens side-splitting limericks with aplomb
   When Soupers are down
   Tom removes their frowns
And their...

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Categories: aplomb, fun, tribute, writing,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Write Me - II
Write Me
                your ballad of beliefs
    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aplomb, life, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
She
She wailed her way into the world...
An avatar they said, Goddess Lakshmi had taken birth...

Her parents' pride, her brother's delight...
She loved and shone her brightest...

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Categories: aplomb, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Essential Spirits
She was like Bordeaux,
a tall drink of spirit
He was more a hopped
pale lager like Pilsner, 
both gorgeous and
super gingered flavors,
although clashing mid
respective savored aplomb,
one so...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aplomb, allegory, analogy, drink, funny
Form: Imagism
Temptation
I see this perfect moon-lit night
with million heart-shaped stars in sight
ill-clad with none but drooping leaves
a fig-tree fraught with a disease
its beauty once majestic spoilt
in...

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Categories: aplomb, girlfriend-boyfriend, nostalgia, passion, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cherry Blossoms Will Bloom Again
The power of nature has ravaged the Japanese shore,
Leaving in its wake devastation and unimaginable gore.
The mettle of this gentle people has been tested, it...

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Categories: aplomb, caregiving, hopepeople, hope, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All That I Am
All that I am I simply can’t impart
in just one poem; I’m simply too left-brained
and practical, so when I share my heart,
to rhyme and rhythm...

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Categories: aplomb, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Warpath Woman -
I need a woman who can dance on a diamond and who can curse on a candle with equal aplomb,I need a woman that can...

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Categories: aplomb, devotion, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coward Am I
Unlike most
I have been over there
Where life is nothing
Mummy and daddy blown in the air

Where little ones starve
Where big ones kill
Proclaiming is all Gods will
I...

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Categories: aplomb, beauty, introspection, poets, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things