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Best Award Poems

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


Premium Member Oceana
Oceana

Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed 
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...

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Categories: award, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To My Granddaughter
I look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes 
Your sails adjusting, full...

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Categories: award, grandchild, light, trust,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: award, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured deeply with rapture stored, sweet love-nights...

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Categories: award, appreciation, beautiful, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dawn of My Heart
Ordinarily I lie in my bed
mentally grasping for any slender thread of slumber
which I can possibly find to cling to!
But there was one time -
a...

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Categories: award, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given
All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given

Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured...

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Categories: award, art, beautiful, creation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: award, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Then We'll Be Dead
Whispers and intrigue 
and things that shan’t be said,
not uttered or stuttered--
minds shuttered instead.

You cannot, you shall not,
believe your own eyes.
You must put your trust...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: award, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Robert Lindley
Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that which Life commands
placing her true love, in its...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: award, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a collaboration with Susan Ashley


Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for...

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Categories: award, art, creation, destiny, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Messenger
The Messenger

I watched the clouds of afternoon
 Gather tempest force;
Now, from a cozy shelter
 View October's raging storm;
Watching through rain washed windows
 Golden oak trees...

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Categories: award, autumn, october, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Impeach
Merry Impeachness

Justice delayed however symbolic
the orangutan finally won his award
for corruption and dereliction of duties
the constitution used to apply to all

IMPEACH
the orange leach
Lucifer has more...

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Categories: award, america, child abuse, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Battle of the Sexes
battle of the sexes


~~MONA LISA SMILE
Picture Oil painting worthwhile 
Leonardo DA Vinci, look out!
What is she really smiling about?

(((The popularity of the Mona Lisa increased...

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Categories: award, funny, history, me,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for dawning gleam across powdered snow
and she her handsome soldier to soon show
for...

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Categories: award, desire, husband, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Cousin Tallie
My cousin Tallie
was a real-life
award winning
beauty queen
from age six to eighteen

The kind who seems
a cardboard cut-out
Southern stereotype
all big hair and hype
manicured nails and
well arranged...
assets
but in...

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Categories: award, abuse, community, family, growing
Form: Free verse

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