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Best Discourse Poems

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


The Bard of Gort
Springing free from glistening 
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for 
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above 
A distant lark now hangs in 
Flight.

Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...

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Categories: discourse, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In the Mirror of Life
As I stand mindfully, facing mirror of my life,
Juxtaposition of yesteryears’ reflections revive 
Mountains of grief and valleys of despairs,
Heartwarming wins and heartbreaking losses,
Echoes strumming...

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Categories: discourse, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: discourse, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: discourse, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Dialogue of Autumn
She speaks of trees in morning mist
A promise of leaves all color kissed.

Discourse in shades of russet tones
Her loss of emerald leaves bemoans

Her cadence heard...

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Categories: discourse, autumn, change, seasons,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: discourse, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Existential Reprise
Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Categories: discourse, philosophyme, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Mosaic Memory
Frightend children under the baobab
Of elders discourse playing
At the deep edge of rites
Of passages
With no Atlantic dream.

There is a beauty here
Before the other world began
Forgetting...

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Categories: discourse, black-african amer
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Color of Her Eyes
i guess i shouldn't let the color of her eyes wake me in the night
but i miss her. 
her voice sings to me in the shower...

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Categories: discourse, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Is the Force
Tender touch gently soothes an ailing soul 
Wordless discourse greets eyes of love
A mother's hug comforts her child's ego
Love is the force that makes the...

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Categories: discourse, care, friendship, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Story From An Impoverished Heart 1
The world turned silent with a strange discourse.
A sadness covered with its darker shade,
To extinguish heart's light without remorse,
And blinded the eyes when its light...

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Categories: discourse, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Conservative - What I Stand For
~ I am a Conservative
        Here is who I am
        ...

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Categories: discourse, identity, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Alone
Each day as she gazes early morning sky
with sips of coffee and memories gone by,
horizon blushes like staring in lover's eyes,

just as she remembers when...

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Categories: discourse, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: discourse, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Whypt Syllabubs
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but...

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Categories: discourse, desire, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism

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