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Best Channel Poems

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


The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: channel, hope,
Form: Rhyme



I Will Be the Stars

I will be the stars
The moon will be my mum
The sun will be my dad
The rain will be my brother

The wind will be my sister
The...

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Categories: channel, 1st grade, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Flower -Part One-
“A Flowers Wilt”	

Witness the small existence 
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.

A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...

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Categories: channel, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Poisonous Self Doubt
Only life in our mortal realm
entrenches self-doubt’s stand.

People and events cripple us
with critical mirrors showing us
visuals of our ineptness.

   All who are predisposed...

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Categories: channel, anxiety, character, confidence, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Stream and Seasons Past
The old stream doesn’t burble 
like it used to in Spring’s past -
rambunctious in youth  wild it ran
racing the sun and chasing the moon
splashing...

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Categories: channel, age, appreciation, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Since You Have Washed Over Me
Since you have washed over me
~

Drifting on a meandering stream
where clover dance and ripples direct my thoughts
to the promises of a new day

I dream I...

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Categories: channel, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaching the Barrier of Cries and Goodbyes
Once more you appear, crossing my threshold
after breaking the lock to memory's door.
Your illusion enters without bothering to knock,
stepping into my room as a wavering...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: channel, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bunyip Forest Revisited
Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where...

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Categories: channel, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dionysus, Apollo - Balance Me
Dionysian passion fills my soul 
With a stream of life, that knows no restraint, 
Your frantic current defies all control-
Awakens the devil within the saint.

Injected...

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Categories: channel, appreciation, art, crazy, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blank White Paper
Blank white paper
Infinite hope, endless promise 
An inspirational instrument

The artists canvas and lawmakers device
How an absent lover expresses love so precise

So much to say, I’m...

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Categories: channel, hope,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: channel, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disconnect
It occurred to me
I think more and more like a poet
Thoughts jumbled with imagery
Off in my own colourful world
Small wonder there’s a disconnect
With dusty musty...

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Categories: channel, conflict, discrimination, imagination, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaving Wales
Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,	
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,	
the soil I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: channel, leaving, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Warrior In the Womb
Oh baby! 
Everyone speaks of a mother's prenatal travails
that make you a part of this earth's tales. 

But,
No one talks about what hassle you undergo
In...

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Categories: channel, child, courage, inspiration, mother,
Form: Rhyme
4 30 Am When Sheep Leap and Lay In a Heap
It's 4:30am and I can't sleep,
the sheep leap and lay in a heap,
told me they're tired and got shut eye,
even my own mind has shunned...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: channel, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

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