Best Boasts Poems
Below are the all-time best Boasts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of boasts poems written by PoetrySoup members
In Memory Leonard CohenThe End of Love
A secret grief rips apart all that was
Slaves to the sexual caresses of time
Stallions in black gallop gallantly in fields
Of spring full...
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Categories:
boasts, death, dedication, memory, november,
Form:
Free verse
A Ghostly Tear`
O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...
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Categories:
boasts, dark, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Fading Porch LightFading porch light lures with pale glow
a circling moth, dull-beige and bare.
As starlight ties vast sky in bows,
I shy away from ruthless glare.
Night...
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Categories:
boasts, depression, loneliness,
Form:
Sonnet
Know HowThankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man
The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...
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Categories:
boasts, age, humanity, life, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Price One Pays For GloryBased on the Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:3-13, which gives
warning to escape the snare of the birdcatcher.
On stage he struts in sequined costume
a plume of...
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Categories:
boasts, bible,
Form:
Free verse
Kingdom of Ruin
Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
Heated winds of fanaticism,
intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...
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Categories:
boasts, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form:
Elegy
unanswered -
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.” -...
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Categories:
boasts, age, analogy, family, father
Form:
Rhyme
Freedom Struggle: IndiaWhat do you know,
About the rule of British?
It is not a rule
For Indian`s to cherish!
It started decades ago,
They began with trade
And then slowly,
They began to...
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Categories:
boasts, appreciation, august,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
boasts, birth, class, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
A Theatre of the AbsurdTheatre of the Absurd
Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...
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Categories:
boasts, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
AfricaPlagued with an unimaginable measure of beauty
She sits somewhere between the Indian and the Atlantic
Her history boasts of nothing but debauched slavery
Having served leaders who...
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Categories:
boasts, history, introspection, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Fantasy SpyFantasy Spy
Would that I, like a Monarch butterfly,
Could fly across the fertile land and spy,
Top tree and lilac bush in the evening hush,
Swooping down above...
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Categories:
boasts, analogy, fantasy, world,
Form:
Sonnet
The Flora and the FaunaSaid the fauna to the flora, upon the forest floor
“Which tree is the tallest, is it the Sycamore?”
The Tulip tree was listening and answered “it...
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Categories:
boasts, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
boasts, analogy, hope, metaphor, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
I Had a Sex In Places- You Could Not Dream"I had a sex in places- you could not dream!"
My friend always boasts. And readers:- Pardon me,
Because all people puzzled asking him:-
" About a...
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Categories:
boasts, funny,
Form:
Quatrain