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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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days 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



Premium Member Words - the Heart of Imagination
This 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
Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On 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
Premium Member A Poet's Gift
A 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
Premium Member If
If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you...

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Categories: capture, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our 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
Premium Member Play On Words
Write 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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: capture, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Painting With Words
Painting 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
Premium Member Effervescence
I 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
Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I 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
Premium Member Of Passions I Own
Sensing 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 Weep
When 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 Waiting
You 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
Premium Member Infatuated Love Limerence
Lost 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: capture, desire, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Aphrodite of the Morning Sun
Your 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

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