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Best Diverted Poems

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


Premium Member Portrait of Susan C
PORTRAIT OF SUSAN C.

If you glance at Susan
Three days in a row
        same pose
    ...

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Categories: diverted, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Evolution of Learning (Part One)
It amazes me how much man has evolved
Yet, How little he has learned
All around the globe
Millions die of disease and starvation
While the ever so intelligent...

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Categories: diverted, history, life, loss, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: diverted, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sedoka Contest There's a Rainbow of Love
Natural rainbow
Sunlight's spectrum of color
Diverted water droplets

Circle rainbow aglow
God's love exposed this wonder
Mankind reaps beauty's assets 

There's a rainbow true
When gray darkens the blue sky...

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Categories: diverted, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mordacious Wind
The wizened hunter had but one cartridge
remaining this was no trifle matter.
For he’d been attacked by a hungry horde
of rats when he took shelter in...

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Categories: diverted, angst, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Blank verse



Slither
Slither
me slips me beasty heart
beneath a piece of guise,
and pens some page of wisdoms
to place before they's eyes,
and with they's gaze diverted, 
me dons me...

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Categories: diverted, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Writing Under the Stain
in an
          angst-             ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diverted, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bye Bye Birdie
It was late in the perpetual summer, and I had been dozing,
On a blue and balmy afternoon, as I lulled on my porch swing.

When from...

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Categories: diverted, adventure, beautiful, bird, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mischief
The Sonnet is my favored form;
     with meter, rhyme, and feet, I do conform.
But what if I diverted, mixed
  ...

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Categories: diverted, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Divergence of Paths
You could have ripped out my eyes

You could have plucked at my heart strings

I’d have let you do all these things

Because you were worthy

You were...

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Categories: diverted, farewell, future, leaving, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blue Lady
A face pack guaranteed to make Miffy’s face look year’s younger.
She had never had enough suiters to add up to a husband, so she bought...

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Categories: diverted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
What Makes a Home
My normal route diverted,
I walked north instead of south
And passed a man who looked like he
Existed hand to mouth.

He’d made a small encampment
Underneath a walking...

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Categories: diverted, home,
Form: Rhyme
My Princess of Imagination
MY PRINCESS OF IMAGINATION
                     ...

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Categories: diverted, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
The Paradox of Progress
THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS


Communication has been around since the dawn of man,
It’s evolved from smoke signals and the beating of drums,
Hieroglyphics gave rise to alphabets...

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Categories: diverted, conflict, history, irony, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canvas
Every mind is painted on a separate canvas
Lines brushed to give edge to their scenes
With a multitude of colors peppered around
Bordered by abstruse and diverted...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diverted, history, introspection, life, social,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things