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Best Certainty Poems

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


Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: certainty, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member You Cry Alone
"laugh and the world laughs with you,
cry and you cry alone"

how true and sad these words once penned
for this I've learned, yet learn again
that when...

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Categories: certainty, depression,
Form: Rhyme
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: certainty, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Cry Alone
"laugh and the world laughs with you,
cry and you cry alone"

how true and sad these words once penned
for this I've learned, yet learn again
that when...

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Categories: certainty, mental illness, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Ebony Night
Feeling smug about its certainty,
night anticipates the day's demise.
And as scattered shades of gray gather,
blue finds sanctuary in your eyes.

As crimson flames melt a stained-glass...

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Categories: certainty, beauty, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: certainty, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blessed By God
My dearly beloved Sister in the Lord,
You surely are a great blessing to me and to others...
May this poem of tribute to and for you...

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Categories: certainty, appreciation, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Wishes and Dreams
I wish I could walk without feeling pain
I wish I could live my life again.

I dream of a time when I could run like a...

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Categories: certainty, day, deep, dream, health,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Queen On Emerging From Her Refuge
She’d dwelt within a palace, and outside
it, geese and brilliant peacocks used to strut
inside a fragrant garden.  As a bride,
she’d said her vows beside...

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Categories: certainty, war, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Red Rose of the Moulin Rouge
I awaken; the darkened skies my alarm clock
I reek of whiskey, scotch and pastis
Tumbling out of bed, I reach for a cigarette
The dusk harkens as...

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Categories: certainty, rose,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Slumber
Repulsive Slumber  

Down the basement, 
not a single color of envy,
flat-lines, are standing still all around.
The stillness is suffocating,
everything coming my way.
Different from,
the morals,
of...

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Categories: certainty, dedication, slam,
Form: Epic
A Total Enigma
I can’t be branded and put into a box
I’m a rhyme wrapped within a riddle a complete paradox
I won't  carry the labels, or walk...

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Categories: certainty, introspection, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Love Means
My Father asked me about you today...
I told him that you are a brilliant woman
extremely beautiful,  compassionate and creative, 
how could I want anything...

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Categories: certainty, i love you,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Travelling Light
Don’t pack your shoes, clothing, or any jewelry.
In fact, leave your wallet and your keys.
Even leave your laptop and your cell phones
with all their data...

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Categories: certainty, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Leave Me Now
Always leaning against the sycamore
Where leaves and shadows play upon your face
Standing solitary in evenings's softened light
You touched me once
In the midst of siren sounds...

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Categories: certainty, lifeme,
Form: Free verse

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