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Best Bestowed Poems

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


Premium Member Autumn Afterglow
Autumn Afterglow

As halcyon summer days 
    wave goodbye
Bucolic trees seen from 
    an autumn sky
Become a cynosure 
 ...

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Categories: bestowed, autumn, beauty, october, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Divine Song V
Idle my tongue remained, my Lord,

till the moment it learned how to pronounce Your name

But from

that moment onward, it never ceased singing your song

which has...

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Categories: bestowed, god, love, world,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dream
Dream

My mirrored reflection silently speaks

You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal

Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of desire...

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Categories: bestowed, appreciation, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Celebration of Mothers
I celebrate wonderful mothers 
who always put the needs 
of their children first,
the single mothers who 
especially must sacrifice 
to help their children survive 
and...

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Categories: bestowed, celebration, dedication, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: bestowed, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: bestowed, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Gloaming
That first glimpse of purple in the gloaming
As dawn softly rises in morning skies 
Ascending along with nature's colors
Is a look of faith and hope...

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Categories: bestowed, color, inspirational, morning, purple,
Form: Rhyme
A Life In Sepia and Watercolours
When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped...

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Categories: bestowed, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and...

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Categories: bestowed, love, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Fleeting Dreams
Fondly He crawled into her night
and pressed a kiss upon her cheek
Through skylight glass He watched the stars
counting her fervent  fleeting dreams.

Her dreams...

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Categories: bestowed, absence, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys

When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...

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Categories: bestowed, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eyes Open
Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...

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Categories: bestowed, appreciation, devotion, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can then see rainbow hues
thus...

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Categories: bestowed, age, appreciation, happiness, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: bestowed, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: bestowed, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme

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