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Best Decanter Poems

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


My Crystal Decanter
There is a longing in my soul, the emptiness created by the absence of my fathers role. 
I have had the happiness any child could...

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Categories: decanter, father,
Form: I do not know?



Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: decanter, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
Without Him
The decanter is filled with chicory blooms
(blue, for the sky is her pleasure)
while the snapshot turns nigrescent
marking rain for the evening weather
The ring with which...

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Categories: decanter, death, life, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolution
Ruben looked deep down a decanter of hopeless glass

Engulfed in spirits of the wrong kind by his inner nemesis

Saturated with agony delusions and soaked surrender...

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Categories: decanter, change,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Black-Eyed Peas
Nigh on sixty years ago this Yankee from the State of Indiana,
Wed a lovely Confederate lass from the State of Louisiana!
I thought I knew her...

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Categories: decanter, funny, holiday, day, day,
Form: Rhyme



Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we...

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Categories: decanter, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth,
Form: Verse
Come See Me
Come see me.
I'm just at the end of the dirt lane.
Just pass the flourishing sycamore and maple trees.
Just pass the vast meadow where crickets play...

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Categories: decanter, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sexy As Sexy Can Be
She was as sexy as sexy can be
   Body undulating like the sea
Hips gyrating at the speed of sound
   Billowing breasts...

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Categories: decanter, art, humorous, sexy,
Form: Light Verse
A Spot
And what doth bring me
          here to this spot

timely turns,
      ...

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Categories: decanter, angst, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of Stranger
BALLAD  OF   STRANGER.





I have come from a far off land
A stranger on the greyer steed
Thence I have seen my true love
Where all...

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Categories: decanter, love, sweet,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Traveller
She came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination

Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration

The path...

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Categories: decanter, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Eos Garden
Tonight we’ll share the heavens;
Souls knitted into one,
Fly together we, the ochre moontrails,
on gossamer wings.

The decanter overflows with nectar;
its sweetness permeates the ethereal void,
like ephemerous...

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Categories: decanter, dream,
Form: Free verse
' ... For the Old Men ... ' (Or It Ain'T Over Yet)
He Thought, ‘Cause He Was Old
And the Other Guy, was Just ‘Sprung’
That He didn’t have a Chance To Hold
His Own, Against The ‘Young-Un’ …

And In...

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Categories: decanter, allegory, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness,
Form: Ballad
Courting Via Match Dot Com..........Iii
I have been pre - oc
cupied 
i have knot been per -
used to periodical nomanclature nor have I been be - 
spectaled by the enormity...

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Categories: decanter, forgiveness, introspection, sorry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stick and Defeat
In the fading heat of a waning falling October night

Trick and Treat travel on their broomstick’s front seat

high speed velocity twin turbo engines in roaring...

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Categories: decanter, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs