Best Compelling Poems
Below are the all-time best Compelling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of compelling poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Fallen Poet(The Fallen Poet)
Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...
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Categories:
compelling, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form:
Free verse
Liquid HeavenLiquid Heaven
A feast for my womanly inner beast!
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...
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Categories:
compelling, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form:
Free verse
NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTDPOTD 8th Jan 24
NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE
The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...
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Categories:
compelling, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form:
Rhyme
Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...
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Categories:
compelling, environment, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
HereafterLiving on a planet, unsure if I belong
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...
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Categories:
compelling, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Twin SoulsI believe in twin souls,
not soulmate a twin has a
connection that can
never be broken....
Lasting through all
lifetimes
They just fit and...
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Categories:
compelling, true love,
Form:
Free verse
The Tempest, Painting by Michael ChevalYou pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...
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Categories:
compelling, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...
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Categories:
compelling, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Caress of WordsWhen I read a poem that breathes,
pulsing wildly, alive with its own heartbeat,
relentless, compelling in its desire,
I feel touched as if by another, feeling
some...
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Categories:
compelling, analogy, appreciation, beauty, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Musk of His FlameSomewhere along waxed moonglow,
he is there
like a sweet aftertaste on my lips;
through warm fingers he groans
as silence closes my eyelids...
and even the pang that he...
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Categories:
compelling, passion, relationship, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Arms In Rhapsody Somewhere between our song, he is there
like a delicacy on my tongue;
on my fingertips he burns
the silence on my eyelids,
and even the pang that...
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Categories:
compelling, emotions, how i feel,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
compelling, political,
Form:
Narrative
The RuinStanding alone in a field of green
Near the cliffs edge by the sea
Nothing in view for miles around
Just ocean and greenery
A ruin so simply beautiful
That...
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Categories:
compelling, appreciation, beauty, history, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Sing Me That SongSing me that song of compelling phrase,
Make me long to dance to your croon
With halting rhythms of a distant place.
I shall look longingly into your...
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Categories:
compelling, lost love, love, memory,
Form:
Villanelle
FootprintsOn a frigid winter evening, so still
that hot breath lingered around my face.
In snow sparklingly dry and crystalline
I encountered fresh-made footprints,
leading off my mostly trodden...
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Categories:
compelling, mystery, winter,
Form:
Free verse