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Best Despatched Poems

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


Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: despatched, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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Categories: despatched, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo
"Burning Bushes Treacherous Cargo"

They say hell 
is on fire 

but there in 
The Lawrence Forest 
exist many, 
burning bushes 
waiting on deliverance
delivering messages,
hidden shadow angels
waiting...

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Categories: despatched, dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting...

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Categories: despatched, appreciation, community, encouraging, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Opponent
"The Opponent" 

Something familiar
breezes across
the smile 

you balk 
at the familiarity
for a very short while

the opponent 
opens your windows
stealth like on pause

softly 
sensuously
like a cat

for...

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Categories: despatched, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Ghost of Christmas Present
Terrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despatched, adventure, animal, bird, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
A Cynical Observation
When Cupid fired an arrow in the air,
Where it might land?  He did not care!
His only intent?  To lighten his quiver,
When he shot...

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Categories: despatched, betrayal, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Collections In Verse
Bevy of swans in a sea-fowl cloud,
starling mumuration,whispering aloud.
Wray of quail,where teal spring,
tiding of magpie,as larks nesting, cling.

Nightingale watch a hover of crows,
herd of wrens,hosting...

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Categories: despatched, animal, bird, fish, insect,
Form: List
Classy Squash Final In Borneo
It is a final long dreamed for by the organisers...
It is a final matchup between the top 2 contenders...

Here in this for off island of...

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Categories: despatched, appreciation, beauty, games, inspiration,
Form: Light Verse
Interview With a Vampire Pt1
and so it begins

can we ever feel pain over pain? a lust for the grave? we shall see

it has become an obsession of late that...

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© Matt Doe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despatched, confusion, lust,
Form: Verse
A Christian Affair
Melania spotted a louse
And caught a cab home sans her spouse
When Barron asked, "Why?"
She said with a sigh,
"Your father is in the dog house!"

Well, Ivanka...

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Categories: despatched, betrayal, christian, family, husband,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In Perspective
latent privacy
emerges into the limelight,
into the unfamiliar:
emptiness
exhaled
anguish abolished
destroyed:
insignificance
dismantled
despatched
to the extremities
of life...

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Categories: despatched, character,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Clusters
Bevy of swans in a sea-fowl cloud,
starling mumuration,whispering aloud.
Wray of quail,where teal spring,
tiding of magpie,as larks nesting, cling.

Nightingale watch a hover of crows,
herd of wrens,hosting...

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Categories: despatched, animals,
Form: Rhyme
High Fidelity
This oath I breathe into the night, 
Where spectral voices wage and fight 
For space to salvage, immunise 
And subjugate before my eyes. 
A song...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despatched, life, love, passion,
Form: Verse
Last Stand
The king was recruiting, He needed brave knights,
To protect all his wealth and his land,
And seek if he could, someone who would succeed,
And was worthy...

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Categories: despatched, courage, princess, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs