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Best Callow Poems

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


Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: callow, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: callow, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: callow, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Reap
it pulls ...
tugs on the core like a fulcrum
black ... mysterious ... warm ... final
harvest of all terrors
(for some)
yet ...
it is the magic of moonglow
the...

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Categories: callow, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Love As Memories
* This for is called Acrostic, but this particular one forms a phrase on BOTH ends - I hope you enjoy it! *

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Categories: callow, analogy, metaphor, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Spindrift
how proper that I found you for
      my farewell, midst those dunes
        ...

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Categories: callow, analogy, break up, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No More Soup For Me
I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: callow, me,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Stem of Thorns
~ Her love abloom fell blinded in the bliss
of one thought gentle in its callow prime,
and if she felt one inkling of amiss,
a thwarted tempest...

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Categories: callow, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Double J - Just Jetsam
Marred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…

Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers...

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Categories: callow, allusion,
Form: Masnavi
Baby Brave
A boy lines up plastic soldiers 
In straight rows across his floor.
He knocks them down with callow ease
In a naive game of war.

Far across the...

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Categories: callow, fear, life, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Tempest
The Tempest

Upon enchanted sands of shipbreached shores
Dethroned beggar of a borrowed callow mystery
Heaves a lightning staff into the waves -
Thunderous and raw clandestine secrecy
On luminous...

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Categories: callow, life, ocean, peace, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Opaque
I lived ... once
I loved and laughed and ached from my marrow
I spoke my soul, and spun my mind to my innervation and impulse
Swam up...

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Categories: callow, analogy, introspection, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Spiral
Oh haste, brumal mists, that twilight kisses
          on hollyhocks, meadow-born,
     Sweet tears...

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Categories: callow, appreciation, insect, magic, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Impaled
A swirling depth, those baby blues
          Soft azure mists with golden hues
    ...

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Categories: callow, analogy, beauty, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scented Leaves
Crisp ...
You lay like solemn ashes
'Neath glass ... spotless, sacred
Dried to bright hues ...
The shades of her lips in chill autumn air
(Winter, whisp'ring soft)
Edges crimped...

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Categories: callow, imagery, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse

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