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Best Cape Poems

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


Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: cape, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: cape, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: cape, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: cape, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
      ...

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Categories: cape, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Why I Weep
I'm named a willow tree and live in grace,
the whole of me distinctive in its shape.
My elegance well suits this lush landscape
of hillocks flung across...

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Categories: cape, natureme,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Winter
You beneath a midnight sky
With tears of crystal
Falling from your eyes

Dressed in a cape of glistening white
With your haunting beauty all aglow
In the pale moonlight

So...

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Categories: cape, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: cape, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Fancy Stress - Collaboration With the Amazing Nina Parmenter
There’s a party tonight so I bouffe up my hair
Pamper and powder my sweet derrière,
Arrive at the door, all done up to impress.....
Oh man, I...

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Categories: cape, celebration, clothes, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let It Flow
Rivulets of crimson blood
Ooze tantalisingly from the gaping wound on her neck
He drinks hungrily, savouring every salty drop
Dracula wraps his black cape around his shoulders
Fleeing...

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Categories: cape, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Embarked Upon a Great Escape
I've deleted this acrostic from the competition for personal reasons. 
        SORRY, J. D.


G lorious was the morning...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cape, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Grace and Solitude
Grace and Solitude

Peaceful stillness covers me - wide eyes embraced when I see
Luna rise up with her pale face, with a humble yet simple grace,
That...

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Categories: cape, moon, night, peace, sky,
Form: Rhyme
South Africa
Listen to the jazz instrumentals of Masekela,
as you take red wine outside a thatched
shelter in a beach in the Western Cape.

Enjoy a hearty meal of...

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Categories: cape, africa, culture, dedication, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Part 3
Part 3:          AT HEAVEN’S GATES

To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though...

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Categories: cape, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Ghost That Travels Far
There comes without a warning,
one in hooded mantle grey,
with silent footfall treading. . . 
treading nightfall into day.
An eerie mist - mysterious -
he haunts the...

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Categories: cape, nature,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs