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Best Diverged Poems

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


Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: diverged, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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Categories: diverged, inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
September
Soft eyes of brown, hair a cascade of curls, 
Your smile, a contagion that enraptured the world,
Dispositions like whispers of a wondrous spell, 
With a...

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Categories: diverged, august, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Rhyme
No More Our Dance
Once we claimed it as our own, that lovely, special song;
No matter when, no matter where, we simply had to hear its sound.
Our hearts would...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diverged, lost lovelife, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member In the Meadow
Two travelers with different destinations, we met before our paths diverged,
and in that span between our first encounter and subsequent farewell,
we read in one another’s...

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Categories: diverged, lost love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"



eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot

slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the...

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Categories: diverged, dark, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now That We Are Here
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by, and
That has made all the difference".
The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost

We...

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Categories: diverged, career, destiny, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Valentine For Contest
MY VALENTINE


                  In a stilted shanty
  ...

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Categories: diverged, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forsaken Temptation
"(Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”
Quote by - Robert...

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Categories: diverged, conflict, introspection, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yellow Wood
”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler...”       ...

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Categories: diverged, age, meaningful, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yellow Brick
" (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the

            the one...

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Categories: diverged, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Galactic Soup
Galactic soup, the Lord wished for,
one day when he felt empty, bored;
some nutrients to give him more
alternatives to be explored.

With hydrogen and helium,
He then stirred...

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Categories: diverged, creation, space, universe, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
diverged a lesson
It was awesomely bright
called  incandescent  light...

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© Jt Nyx  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diverged, growth, inspiration,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Triptych: the Haunted Emerald Windows
"Triptych: The Haunted Emerald Windows" 


a story 
in 3 parts 
affixed to a wall

2 of the pieces 
fold 

left and middle
hidden 

the right 
plays part

of...

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Categories: diverged, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Faithful
He remembered when they met.
He had said, "Sure, but I don't
dance very well." Then later, after 
a drink and some casual palaver 
she had shared,...

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Categories: diverged, friendship, love, memory,
Form: Free verse

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