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Best Compartment Poems

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


Losing Things
Today I thought I lost my keys
And knowing what’s at stake,
I searched like crazy, but my husband
Took them by mistake.

An hour later, for a class
Of...

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Categories: compartment, me, today,
Form: Rhyme



The Journey
THE   JOURNEY


What a joy it could be to sit 
in a far going train with you, 
-  to look into the window...

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Categories: compartment, allegory
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Write You Out
I think it’s time I write
Write you OUT
Of the coming pages of my life
Oh…you linger
On every page
that's ever been
Keeping the plot a disguise
Unexpected events
My heart's...

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Categories: compartment, goodbye, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Religious Train To Peace
There's a Train
Going to Peace Station.
Christians, Buddhists,
Hindus, Atheists,
Each occupied a Compartment,
But never Bothered one another,
Just like the Two Rails of the Track
That Travel Together but...

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Categories: compartment, identity, islamic, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
A Jasmine Garland Seller
A female tongue pushes me down from the swing of sleep.
Rain kids rouse the stink of railway track in the dawn.
A long chain of complaints...

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Categories: compartment, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On the Seas of Night Potd
I loved sailing upon the blue sea, and I was never too far from it,
As one who knows sweet cravings, is seldom far from chocolates.

In...

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Categories: compartment, adventure, fantasy, nature, night,
Form: Couplet
Human Figures Made of Clay
Dismal tale of men and women in the dirty rail compartment
No conception of the charm being knitted by the movement
Of the necklace of gentle light...

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Categories: compartment, discrimination, loneliness, sorrow, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Bio Poem
Andrea,
a woman considerate and kind, mellow, down to earth, and fun-loving,
she loves to use her mind.
Thefore, scrubbing on her knees, this gal you’ll never find!
Sisters...

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Categories: compartment, poetess,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Automat - Hopper
Inspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927.
The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table.

Viewing the painting will make sense...

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Categories: compartment, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Room With One Window
There are rumours of a land,
A land more beautiful than anything else. 
There is sunshine out there…
And trees. And grass, animals, bushes, flowers, vines, laughter,...

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Categories: compartment, beautiful, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dog Meditation
a doG meditation...

this is about what we call "pets"
about ownership..objectivity..
an anachronism now..?
the inner model of
consciousness-only
may provide a hint:
only consciousness Knows
not plants..not animals..not us..
that is a...

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Categories: compartment, freedom, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Frigidaire -
 
oh hello-
my name is frigidair   and I am
a (retro) refrigerator
  for food
I have been in this apartment
    ...

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Categories: compartment, tribute,
Form: Free verse
The Seventies
I could write a poem of all the headlines, 
most influential people, and important events of the decade,
but instead, I’ll share with you some of...

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Categories: compartment, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Used To Go To This Bar
Red light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s...

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Categories: compartment, addiction, beauty, drink, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member In the Wild
IN THE WILD

Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens 
At 6 o’clock, 
Now we are...

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Categories: compartment, adventure, africa,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs