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Best Divert Poems

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


Premium Member Somber Is the Color of the Day
Somber is the color of the day...
Window glass distorts the view, of the dreary afternoon
Prisms of light cavorting outside, are reflected from the dew
and rainbows...

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Categories: divert, day, light, me, winter,
Form: Free verse



There For You
There for you


Always my love it shall rest on your shoulders
Even when clouds fill the sky
Holding you tightly for now and forever
Drying each tear you...

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Categories: divert, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today Is a Gift To Us All
The thing about today is that:
                   ...

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Categories: divert, faith, hope, life, upliftingday,
Form: Free verse
I Wish To Be Your Angel
I can cry at night when the world is lost in sleep,
      I can divert my mind with your thoughts...

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Categories: divert, angel, care, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Its Not the Road
It’s not so much the road,
as the way you travel it.
Many roads divert, others intersect
and guidance down the right one
comes from within.
There’s a connection, you...

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Categories: divert, analogy, growth, happiness, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Follow Me
Yes Lord I will follow You, knowing it’s the right thing to do.
To the depths of my being, I know I will be true.
I learned...

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Categories: divert, love,
Form: Quatrain
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between...

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Categories: divert, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Promised Land
She told it this way.....

He said...San Francisco......
Then up to Mendocino
I said...can I go
He said...I guess you can

'Cause, long since Albuquerque
That's when he first hurt me
My...

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Categories: divert, conflict, confusion, desire, journey,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ode To Orpheus and the Magic of His Song
How beautiful the music that he made;
his lilting song was carried by the breeze
and waves of water, and the lyre he played
sent all the birds...

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Categories: divert, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Polite Patience
Fingers toy with my nearly worn out bank card.
Not too confident, I hold onto my nerves, hard.
Ahead, petty items in her trolley hold me slowed.
The...

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Categories: divert, age, society,
Form: Rhyme
Creatures Know True Love
Baby, every-time you try to avoid me

A cute bird sings to make me calm
A naughty cat tires to help me laugh 
A stupid dog barks...

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Categories: divert, baby, beautiful, beauty, break
Form: Epic
Sorry
Chest tight
no light
cant fight
a blight

Tears threten to spill
I promise not to kill
I beg for you to fill
just please wait untill

I crave the past,
tears under the...

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Categories: divert, absence, depression, hurt, i
Form: Lyric
Premium Member After the Storm the Rainbow Appears
In our lives, we like a friend
one that's always good to us
but not a fair-weather one at all
they don't care you miss the last bus

It's...

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Categories: divert, friend, rainbow, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Homeless
Holes in my socks also my shoes
Holes in the day, nothing to lose
Holes in my soul, nothing will flow
Holes in my dreams, nowhere to go

Holes...

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Categories: divert, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Affiliation To Whose Law
AFFILIATION TO WHOSE LAW

If I was law unto myself
What would I be?
Where would I go?
What would I say?
Would I in such a way
Be free?
Or be...

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Categories: divert, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs