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Best Approach Poems

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


Premium Member A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities 
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a 
few forests. A ruby red swirls within 
its petals beckons awareness of those...

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Categories: approach, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form: Shape



Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: approach, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden Treasures

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Categories: approach, art,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: approach, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonlight Serenade
Blindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...

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Categories: approach, sensual,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: approach, desire,
Form: Narrative
Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: approach, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Malaise In My Heart
There is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approach, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day She Disappeared
A collaboration between Paul Callus & Carolyn Devonshire
 
Where were you when she disappeared?
Is the moment caught in your mind?
Were you nervous as the day...

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Categories: approach, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Fireflies
It's so dark outside, my eyes can't distinguish where sand meets water. Somehow, dusk has come and gone, plunging the evening into darkness. 
 
But...

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Categories: approach, love, nature, me, light,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member That Dawn, a Goddess Found Me: Collaboration With Robert Lindley
An early morn mist that fadeth away
revealeth the goddess that stole this heart.
In radiance, her hair shone as blazing gold
soft-born winds welcomed her that fine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approach, fantasy, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Lost Fisher Boy
Playing at night on rocky ground, he sprained his foot.
He hobbled onwards careful where his foot he put.
The lonely shepherds had long returned to their...

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Categories: approach, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Words
"Give me words,
Thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words
For
A poem I wish to write
Not any poem
But
A masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring poet shouted,...

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Categories: approach, muse, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Gratitude
Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...

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Categories: approach, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Twin Souls
I believe in twin souls, 
not soulmate a twin has a  
connection that can  
never be broken.... 
Lasting through all 
lifetimes 
They just fit and...

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Categories: approach, true love,
Form: Free verse

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