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Best Borrow Poems

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


Love Passing By
When the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...

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Categories: borrow, love, love, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borrow, giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Potd Good Night,Poets of Gold Pens
     ~Poetesses and Poets, Divine~

All over this great planet we live,
Penning our thoughts, and love to give!

With our hearts, as lanterns...

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Categories: borrow, appreciation, community, love, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1
I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)

Leaving under a blood moon
            ...

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Categories: borrow, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Soul
Oh! soul, strum with every pulse, strings of wisdom
Be in the known, yet, be conscientious of unknown
What you claim to possess, don’t let it possess...

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Categories: borrow, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Verse



Have You Ever
Have You Ever

Stood in a field of ripened gold grain
Lifted your face to be kissed by the rain
Felt in your heart the anguish of pain?
*
Held...

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Categories: borrow, life, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ancient Stones
Charcoal black tip of arrowhead,
among these ancient, stones - stained red

Heartbeats share rhythms of ghostly drums..
Winds carry haunting, chanting hums

I feel your blood, flow here...

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Categories: borrow, native american,
Form: Couplet
Every Night I Wonder
Every night,from my little window

I watch billions of  stars

luminating the blue-black sky

And every night

my thought is filled with you

knowing you are somewhere there

Somewhere in...

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Categories: borrow, absence,
Form: Free verse
Slow Movin Tights
I'm in me bath here, with a box of red cheer, 
yeah a box of red cheer, beer's too bloody dear.
Me mind's wanderin twixt big...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borrow, me, red, women,
Form: Ballad
On Wings of Imagination
My imagination
soars on delicate wings.
I'm a kite without strings,
a bird in migration,
leader of a nation,
heir to the throne of kings.

When my adventure ends
there's no need...

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Categories: borrow, imagination,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Easter Eggs and Seashells
Like Easter eggs and seashells,
I collect them
scattered dubloons in gypsy gold
Brushstrokes of verse by hands more able
to decorate, and brighten
My barren table

Bountiful fruit from other...

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Categories: borrow, appreciation, community, poems, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waking Up With Ilene
Every morning, before my caffeine 
I enjoy waking up with Ilene.
No, it's not what you think -
I wake up with her INK;
The fun thoughts of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borrow, morning, poetess,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borrow, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borrow, community,
Form: Verse
A Death Sentence
a death sentence (meth),

so many forms of it i know 
yet same effect when it takes hold,
robbing young soul's blind
taking away their chance of life,

one...

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Categories: borrow, addiction, drug,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs