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Best Bench Poems

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


Premium Member The Park Bench
The Park Bench

I wish I was a poet
With magical words
To make people see all of the absurd
Tears fly, paintings in pastel die

When we look into...

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Categories: bench, art, beauty, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When We Were Royals
Leaning against the warmth of old oak, 

I recall your sun burnt skin that summer.

As I let my fingers linger on the side of the...

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Categories: bench, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Regret
Why I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart

On a moonless night, he approached 
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...

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Categories: bench, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To the Redwood
I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...

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Categories: bench, forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Sweet Ghost Valentine
An old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.

A storehouse for so many...

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Categories: bench, lost love, love, me,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member - Alcoholic - the Lion Roars
He has no
                      ...

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Categories: bench, life, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pleasures of Reading
It pleasures me
That she reads me
Inside her serenity
Parked on our bench of antiquities

I, whom gazes over there at her,
Later in the dusk of candlelight
Shall remove...

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Categories: bench, art, beauty, desire, image,
Form: Free verse
The Solo Pianist
Another Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist  with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a...

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Categories: bench, absence, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gardens At Keukenhoff Alouette
Gardens at Keukenhoff (Alouette)

As the tulips rise
With their sweet surprise
Fragrance permeates the air
Colors cover land
From God's divine hand
In these gardens we all share.

Such astounding views
Come...

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Categories: bench, april, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fall
Fall and
red yellowing 
leaves in the trees

an old man sitting 
on a bench
watches them 
fall
and thinks of his youth

a youth 
sitting on a bench
looking into...

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Categories: bench, age, funny, nature, society,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Waiting For Sunrise
My whole life waits, just this moment, the ink still

wet; for sunrise this clear May morning.

My shaman up already,
hair askance, dancing and trilling his flute
to...

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Categories: bench, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Random Acts of Kindness
A crazy old man once told me,
“Heaven is made of the things you give away.”
It appeared he was next in line for heaven
as he had...

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Categories: bench, allegory,
Form: Free verse
When Love Is Forever
Resting on the beige leather couch
 next to the dimly lit tiffany lamp
He dozed off into an early night sleep

She smiled looking at him
 as...

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Categories: bench, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Anger Death and Guilt
LOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT 

Blog was A young girl who was 
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as...

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Categories: bench, anger, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oblivious To Nature
It seemed like nature had concocted a singular miracle
As I sat on the wooden bench looking in towards the woodland.
A red maple tree stood tall...

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Categories: bench, nature,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs