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Best Decades Poems

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


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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Categories: decades, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: decades, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member breath to breath -
they say to mend an injured heart, move on
      and thus I've done so, time-and-time- again
    ...

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Categories: decades, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member It Was In September
It was in September that Poetry first came to me -
a time when summer’s embers, for me had not yet caught fire
until, that is, ...

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Categories: decades, beauty, poetry, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Stand Here
I stand here with every step of my life etched in crisscross lines beneath these
well worn feet. 

Well worn feet that have carried me for...

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Categories: decades, introspection,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Finding Hope
These dark streets seem empty
All shadows, no light
But look, there’s a window
A candle burns bright

This quest makes me weary
As decades fly past
My first love is...

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Categories: decades, hope,
Form: Lyric
When the Flowers of Youth Fell
When the Flowers of Youth Fell

Winter stayed late that year
courting Spring with a fury.
Beautiful gifts of snow
and dazzling ice, he gave her.
It was during such...

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Categories: decades, seasons, time, war,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: decades, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist,...

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Categories: decades, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: decades, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yes,I Know I Won'T Be Here Forever
~Yes, I Know I Won't Be Here Forever~



       Sometimes, I just don't realize,
      ...

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Categories: decades, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fingerdance Potd

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Categories: decades, dance, girl, imagery, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: decades, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
The 50's
There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw...

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Categories: decades, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: decades, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things