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Best Candid Poems

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


A Candid Rainscape
I watch the water trickle down my blank canvas,
The whole world is crying today...

      Nature has water-washed the Earth green,...

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Categories: candid, flower, imagery, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse



You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: candid, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode
...."the Wedding At Dreamendon" ~
Dressing the ancient stars amid their anthem weddings attire....

The universe anxiously anticipating these adorned galaxies of, anew ~

Bookplate bridesmaids, with such glittering eyes and broadening...

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Categories: candid, faith, happiness, holiday, love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candid, character,
Form: Rhyme
Folly
with passion’s brilliant mediocrity
we sparked a flame with tragedy
it was our common fantasy

what a candid lie we chose to sing


while watching worlds were turning
we rubbed...

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Categories: candid, betrayal,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Departed Friendships
For Linda, Freddie, Chan, & others that meant something true to us…

Another departure…

Another wistful teardrop
Embracing yesterday’s candid goodbye

No longer can we touch their physical soul....

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Categories: candid, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 1
The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...

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Categories: candid, allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Best Medicine
If laughter's the best medicine
I think I've had an overdose
It's coursing through my body
From my head down to my toes

I'm worried about my Ass
They say...

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Categories: candid, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Hall Pass
Had a room been open   in that passageway
as a foreign night-ship, you’d have sailed by
Love would’ve been what?     ...

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Categories: candid, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Lost Years
The photos stopped 
when you were 10 or 11.
Around that time, you started refusing to 
have your pictures taken.
A few candid shots are all I’ve...

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Categories: candid, family, father, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Always the Lady
An hour before time, they put her through the motions.
Shoving and pulling her strings adding oil and suntan lotion.
Hot and humid still shining in candid...

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Categories: candid, dedication, friendship, journey, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembrance In Poetry
There’s a deathly silence
in the aging night of the living,
a rasp of breath sneaks
out across the candid moor,
like the wail that fails
the carousel of life!
The...

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Categories: candid, remember,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools...

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Categories: candid, beauty, bible, confusion, courage,
Form: Epic
Premium Member We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -
Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,

we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no...

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Categories: candid, history, march,
Form: Imagism
I Wish
I wish, for a moment—I could vanish,
like a dream dreamt not to last,
so that ones that dream of me
would falter and wonder
where has she gone?

I...

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Categories: candid, dedication, deep, devotion, growth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things