Best Author Poems
Below are the all-time best Author poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of author poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
author, death, love, rose,
Form:
Personification
One RegretNow walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...
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Categories:
author, introspection, life,
Form:
Sonnet
October SkiesWe are apples growing on our parent's tree, planted by our grandparents from the apples of our great-grandparents ~ author
October skies still reflect in your...
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Categories:
author, age, anniversary, autumn, grandparents,
Form:
Lyric
SnowflakeA fragile winter butterfly
Flutters from the sky
So soft and yet her heart
Is cold and made of ice
But if I warm it
She will melt and die
...
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Categories:
author, nature,
Form:
Personification
The Greatest Poet EverI got to wonderin' the other day
who was the greatest poet ever?
Was it a guy named Willie Shakespeare
or someone much more clever?
I thought it over...
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Categories:
author, me, write,
Form:
Rhyme
Where My True Love Lives - a BalladeSeared upon my soul for ever more
That break of dawn upon a summer morn
As I made my way along that rocky shore
Strewn with remnants from...
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Categories:
author, death, love, ocean,
Form:
Ballade
First LoveReturning home again after many years away
I find our secret path along the Fundy Bay
That happy place where long ago we played
Where all our dreams...
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Categories:
author, childhood, love,
Form:
Quatrain
ShorelineThe ocean waves come rolling in
There’s not a soul in sight
With heaving breath they break on shore
And burst in brilliant white.
The sound of wind is...
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Categories:
author, sea, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
I Stand HereI stand here with every step of my life etched in crisscross lines beneath these
well worn feet.
Well worn feet that have carried me for...
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Categories:
author, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
The Promise of Spring - a FibonacciI
Will
Kiss you
While you sleep
Lady dressed in white
And melt your cold heart made of ice
Then
You
Will rise
Liquefied
High into the sky
And fall as raindrops from God’s...
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Categories:
author, hope, love, nature,
Form:
Personification
My Little Soldier BoyGary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.
You had just turned...
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Categories:
author, child, death, remember, boy,
Form:
Rhyme
The ProphetThe Prophet
I read the words of a poet
From the days of tomorrow
His verse flowed backwards in time
And rhyme
I, a fair maiden, doomed to a...
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Categories:
author, allah, beauty, eve, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate
With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An...
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Categories:
author, analogy, hate, love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Write a PoemI write a poem that will entertain the world.
A poem that will fade someone's fear.
The one that will inspire you to smile.
Something that can make...
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Categories:
author, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist,...
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Categories:
author, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme