Best Awarded Poems
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
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
Poor Peter PumpkinPoor 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
Carolyn Devonshire RipWe 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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Categories:
awarded, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Stunning SpringTrees 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 PoetryThe 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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Categories:
awarded, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
awarded, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form:
Couplet
AbandonedI'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
Jan AllisonI 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
Wonderful WorldCool 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
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
Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling DewHer 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
Silhouette of the NightWitching 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
He's Mr Know It All - Now a CollaborationOld 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
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