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Best Border Poems

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


Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: border, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Somewhere Over the Horizon
Deeply dive into my Southern border. .  again
again. .  border around my existence ever so deeply

Somewhere over the Horizon
love is met gently

Images melt...

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Categories: border, imagery, senses, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: border, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
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: border, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: border, people, places,
Form: Rhyme



Hope
You see hope when two kids share marbles between a volatile border.


Date: 16/06/2017...

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Categories: border, children, conflict, future, humanity,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Narrow Margin
Sometimes, in uncertain outcomes, as life agitates,
It can sway either way, maneuvering on the edge,
For a difference rather modest, makes the final call,
When a narrow...

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Categories: border, life, perspective,
Form: Verse
Gold Star
I remember as a young boy, going out to play, I would sometimes see old Mr. Kimball, sitting on the steps of his porch, often...

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Categories: border, childhood, war, war, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The First Kiss Or That Darn Ann Landers
Son of a gun we were still young;
only 15 years gone by.
You were the first my kissing bubble to burst, 
and for you, I think...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: border, me, nostalgia, song, travel,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Refugee
Running from an economy full of hate
hunger will place him behind bars unless he relocates
war and crisis lingering with the hope to end soon
have pocketed...

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Categories: border, adventure, africa, death, depression,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Snickers With Link To His Picture
Barking at the people who
walk behind our house
is a dog that as a pup
was bought by my spouse.

Tiny border collie mix
he was meant to be,
but...

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Categories: border, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Of Perfect Beauty

And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art
situate at the entry of the sea, which
art a merchant of the people for many
isles, Thus saith the...

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Categories: border, allusion, america, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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Categories: border, inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet Childhood Home
The house of my sweet childhood still sits on
a little hill. It's blue; the roof is grey.
Ferns grow along the border of the lawn.
I want...

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Categories: border, home, house,
Form: Sonnet
Black Diamond
On the border of the obscure wastelands,
In the depths of shadows and torments,
Far beyond the land of Never Was, Never Will
Is a place where I...

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Categories: border, art, beauty, dark, dedication,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs