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Best Blight Poems

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


Premium Member Love One Another
“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: blight, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?



One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...

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Categories: blight, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portrait of Nature
Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: blight, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: blight, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: blight, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Course Correction
Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...

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Categories: blight, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blight, adventure, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Trust
It's so simple,
So basic,
Yet we lack it.
Interaction is nothing without it.
Unable to make a bond because the fact is,
We've missed the point.
The point that connects...

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Categories: blight, change, fear, inspirational, society,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Fields of Athenry
Irelands' famine, England chose to ignore
The potato blight caused devastation
Michael stole corn from a granary store
To stop loved ones dying from starvation.

Arrested and charged with...

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Categories: blight, england, ireland, prison,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Darkest of Days, When His Ship Finally Came Home
Darkest Of Days, When His Ship Finally Came Home

A wicked chill, even her house could feel its creep
Tho' silence would not hear its horrific demands.
A...

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Categories: blight, art, death, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unstable
You think this is quaint, a case of the blues
A handkerchief for a dainty cheek
But I want to howl, I want to shriek
I want to...

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Categories: blight, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Repost of Erin Go Bragh
Erin Go Bragh 

At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands,
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.

On...

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Categories: blight, beach, beautiful, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Between the Extremes - POTD
In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blight, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member I That Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest Voice
I, Who Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest Voice

I, who once rose to greet dawn's sweetest voice
and with joys of life, made loving my choice
while...

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Categories: blight, art, deep, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cancer - Remembering What You Want To Forget
You crept into our lives
silently stalking
like a cat burglar in the dead of night
invading every aspect of our world

Robotic treatment by the Da Vinci Machine
operated...

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Categories: blight, cancer, remember,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things