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


Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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Categories: definition, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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Categories: definition, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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Categories: definition, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunday Musings
Judgement
You light the fire, then play the victim.
It's not my fire, yet you let it burn.
Rage and pain drive you insane,
creating a parody of hypocritical...

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Categories: definition, emotions, judgement, muse,
Form: Free verse
Laid To Rest
Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...

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Categories: definition, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member What Is Love
How does one answer, what is love;
it's part hope, part apparition.
But what it truly is; sort of
simply defies definition.

Have you ever felt so alive
that it...

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Categories: definition, beautiful, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Seduction
My view on seduction,
 is that what you're asking me? 

Specifically love, 
my thoughts on loving a woman,
that's what you want to know?

Have you ever...

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Categories: definition, romance, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today
Embrace the miracle of Today's birth;
     the beginning of everything.
     
     Incapable of...

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Categories: definition, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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Categories: definition, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Holds More Resplendent Gifts of the Great and Vast Beyond
What Holds More Resplendent Gifts Of The Great And Vast Beyond

Seas of poetry orations, I once took my swims
being strong in spirit, stouter in heart...

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Categories: definition, art, creation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love In the Trenches
Now this is my definition of love
It's much like wrestling in the mud
You get down and dirty
And say things quite flirty
Then it all comes together...

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Categories: definition, hilarious,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mysterious and Magnetic
- - The way we were
           in poetic form, underlined and understood,
   ...

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Categories: definition, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: definition, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To Tame the Tempest
They know how to press those buttons,
With just a familiar chosen word or two,
How to enrage one's spirit with a tone,
A glance sharp enough to...

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Categories: definition, anger, feelings, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laid To Rest
Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: definition, death, true love,
Form: Free verse

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