Best Capture Poems
Below are the all-time best Capture poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of capture poems written by PoetrySoup members
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...
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Categories:
capture, god, life,
Form:
Sestina
Words - the Heart of ImaginationThis seasoned evening
sported a full faced
Orange Kool-Aid moon.
Fully aware it was a marvel
it shot me an arrogant wink.
Not once but twice.
I think i heard it laugh.
It...
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Categories:
capture, nature,
Form:
Free verse
How Do I Hold the WindOn the edge of silence
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...
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Categories:
capture, grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet's GiftA Poet's Gift
A poet writes to share a secret depth
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their...
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Categories:
capture, art, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
capture, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Love Is EternalOur soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...
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Categories:
capture, love,
Form:
Free verse
Play On WordsWrite here, right now. Write now, right here!
Capture the moment while it's near
and seize the day. You now know how:
write now, right here;...
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Categories:
capture, word play, words,
Form:
Quatrain
Painting With WordsPainting with Words
If I were an artist instead of a poet
I’d paint what I knew as others would know it.
I’d be a Renoir and never...
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Categories:
capture, poetry, writing,
Form:
Couplet
EffervescenceI am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...
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Categories:
capture, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Land of the Midnight SunI went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...
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Categories:
capture, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Of Passions I OwnSensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...
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Categories:
capture, muse, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Tears To WeepWhen I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.
He...
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Categories:
capture, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Still WaitingYou loved me just a little
You never loved me long;
But you gave my soul serenity
And gave my heart a song.
You loved me for a moment
I...
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Categories:
capture, love, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Infatuated Love LimerenceLost in your elegance,
if only time could stand still
to capture this memory eternally.
Reflection of the moon shimmers
upon tranquil waters
in congregation with the stars,
as we sail...
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Categories:
capture, desire, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Aphrodite of the Morning SunYour honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…
Mane of a lioness suave...
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Categories:
capture, desire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme