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Best Coin Poems

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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: coin, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: coin, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coin, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coin, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Homeless Mans Love For His Daughter
A homeless man played his guitar,
for coin rewards put in a jar.
 A lonely life he always led,
but in his heart a love he had.
...

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Categories: coin, dad, daughter, fate, longing,
Form: Rhyme



Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: coin, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
The Measure of Love
How does one measure love in scope or scale?
  For if such ledger ever was designed
Then logic would over the heart prevail.
  So...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coin, love, true love,
Form: Sonnet
The King of Sanctimonious
The King of Sanctimonious
Perched high upon his throne-ious
Clothed in purple pious-ness
Admired his own self-righteous-ness

The Queen of Sanctimonious
Tired of the King's baloney-ous
When he counts his hoards...

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Categories: coin, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Chill of An Open Door
Cleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a...

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Categories: coin, angst, caregiving, death, father,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Streetlife
I’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a...

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Categories: coin, environment, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope
In this day and age, when happy seems vacant
Where people’s hopes appear forever distant,
It’s the little things that see you through the day
Often it seems,...

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Categories: coin, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True Light
In This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light

World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing...

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Categories: coin, art, creation, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coin, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tale of Righteous and Just Demise of Old Jack
Tale Of Righteous And Just Demise Of Old Jack

Old Jack had shot many before, once just for the sheer hell of it
Never squeamish about the...

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Categories: coin, art, creation, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imperceptible
Sol slowly sinks into the pitch of night,
while cricket chirps join bellowing bullfrogs.
The setting sun colors the edge of light
while woodpeckers drum on old hollow...

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Categories: coin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs