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Best Canst Poems

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


Premium Member The Rose and the Thorn
I shall nay know all the wonders - you hold
For all too soon the winds of winter blow
Scarlet petals withering in the snow
How cruel the...

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Categories: canst, death, lost love, rose,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member What Am I
Who Art Thou?

Thou carriest me to distant clime, to Egypt in my mind.
I’m Cleopatra, naked. In thy folds, I solace find.
Thou art gentle, like sweet...

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Categories: canst, me, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Overjoyed-Originally Del Valle
If vain thy earthly hopes did prove, thou canst not mourn their flight; Thy brightest hopes were fixed above. And they shall know no blight—Anne-Bronte...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canst, baby, birth, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom - 2
She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. – Proverbs 3:15 (KJV)

A golden...

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Categories: canst, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Personification
Romeo Improv Un-Recorded
Thou lay'st like a rose on deaths pillow
Silent and still, unsoothed by lifes request
Asleep the dawns and days of all and all
Eternity. My lovely Juliet
Wherefore...

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Categories: canst, death, lovelife, death, art,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member A Valentine From Long Ago
Mine eyes espy thy golden hair
No crown of gilded jewels more fair
Wither you go, you go with grace
Sweet one, ye who are so fair of...

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Categories: canst, love,
Form: Couplet
Walian Love Song
The roots of love are like the oak,
They reach beyond the heart and soul,
So deep the mind cannot revoke
Nor canst control.
In storms of life two...

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Categories: canst, love, heart, heart, love,
Form: Sonnet
Open Mine Eyes Lord So I May See
Oh! Open mine eyes Lord, so I may see,
Thee in all of Thy wonderous glory!***

"Once I was spiritually blinded by sin,
often I pleaded Thee about...

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Categories: canst, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I Am For Christ
Please strengthen my testimony Lord.
Help by being my sword, shield, and reward.
Destroy that which is inside me, abhorred.
Bring me aboard, and fully furnish me restored.

As...

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Categories: canst, best friend, christian, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind-Up Man, the Patch-Work Girl and the Remaining Time
"The Wind-Up Man, The Patch-Work Girl and The Remaining Time"



What do you do when your heart breaks into a million pieces?
You turn into metal, what’s...

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Categories: canst, forgiveness, freedom, home, truth,
Form: Couplet
Love Justice
Love, a curse or a boon
a query that has grown
there exist a lucky few
who hath tasted this feeling true

Young love likens a rosebud
pure and delicate,...

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Categories: canst, feelings, innocence, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Wilst Thou Marry Me
Fairest of the fair wilst thou be as wife
For thy breathe though lips elixir kisses 
Our future can allow me true immortal life

I see mine...

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Categories: canst, marriage, wedding, love, me,
Form: Romanticism
Gift From the Living God Is No Ordinary Love
EVERYDAY WITH YOU BECOMES ANOTHER HOLIDAY AS EACH NIGHT BECOMES A SWEET REVELATION TO A REFRESHING, LOVE AFFAIR.  TRULY, YOUR LOVE BECOMES A NEW...

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Categories: canst, devotion, sweet, beauty, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Sad People Do Sing
(Inspired by: Mother Liniel Ambrose)


The sadist sings no songs to God
They dance to bells they ring
'Till one mightier within them sing
They'll sit in the land...

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Categories: canst, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Cloud 9
Get off of my cloud
In this moment I own it
At least for right now 
And do not worry
I shant let thee fall
Whereas, merely I am...

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Categories: canst, freedom, funny, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs