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


Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: awarded, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: awarded, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Carolyn Devonshire Rip
We never met, although we planned
to make our dream come true;
the will was strong, the body weak…
and then you bid adieu
when angels came and took...

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Categories: awarded, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Do Not Grieve Your Muse
(For My Younger Self)



You have forgotten your muse.
You neglected her, in the hustle and bustle
of city life, in trying to carve a niche,
driving yourself too...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awarded, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stunning Spring
Trees wear a gown of bright emerald green
Where birds are nesting in branches up high
Parents shield fledglings so they can’t be seen
Until they can spread...

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Categories: awarded, beauty, daffodils, humor, nature,
Form: Sonnet



My Solace, a Poet's Thoughts On Poetry
The wonder of nature you describe with the color of feelings 
that even the blind sees the beauty, for you anoint with your sight.
From my...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awarded, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

                  ...

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Categories: awarded, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Abandoned
I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose...

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Categories: awarded, growing up, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Jan Allison
I am from Great Britain  – it’s not a rumour
I always try to write with a sense of humour

In 1996 we moved to live...

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Categories: awarded, mum,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Wonderful World
Cool wind whispers on the breeze
Shimmering sunshine warms the autumn leaves
Dragonflies dance over a sparkling lake
Slithering silently is a sleepy snake
Beauty surrounds, just open your...

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Categories: awarded, beauty, nature, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member on such divine evenings -
aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt,...

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Categories: awarded, august, eve, joy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew
Her Grace, Soft As The Silence Of Morn's Falling Dew
 
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore...

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Categories: awarded, appreciation, art, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silhouette of the Night
Witching hour is upon us 
Dusky clouds, falling, swirling
Obscuring the crescent moon
Skeleton fingered branches
Beckoning me in the wind 
As I creep past the grave stones
To...

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Categories: awarded, dark, scary,
Form: Verse
Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: awarded, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: awarded, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs