Best Donne Poems
Below are the all-time best Donne poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of donne poems written by PoetrySoup members
Salieri SoliloquyYou give me the desire
a love for composing
word symphonies
yet you give me
the cross of mediocrity
to bear
day by day to know
there are others
who are...
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Categories:
donne, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I'Ll Slam This Poem Down Your Throat and You Best Be Glad I'M Giving You Anything At Alli spit words much better than you
there is nothing at all that you can do
check out my spelling and my epic grammar
i'll smash your face...
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Categories:
donne, on writing and wordsme,
Form:
Free verse
Selkie
"Selkie"
Tomorrow never comes
shadows dance on walls
the wanting of bodies electric
pressed fast and tight
in the hot surrender
of wet sheets sailing
over solitary satin skin
neroli oiled...
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Categories:
donne, desire, freedom, lust, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Call of the Alpha MaleRobin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon
Hear the call of the...
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Categories:
donne, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form:
Light Verse
Skies From a Little Girl's EyesShe wades in until the water reaches her waist,
looks out and continues into the endless sea.
Her imagined long gown floats behind her.
Her little girl shoulder...
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Categories:
donne, child, french, nature, princess,
Form:
Free verse
Our First DateThe whole day, my mind was blossoming,
Keeping me busy with humming and chuckling.
Though the sky was raining, couldn’t upset my spirit,
I was struggling myself to...
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Categories:
donne, cute love, first love,
Form:
Narrative
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft...
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Categories:
donne, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
donne, fun, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Baroque Spring
"Baroque Spring"
Viewed externally
I am the Winter House
Internally I am too too much
I am eternal Baroque Spring
He watches his
mirror twin
and assigns fatal love
to...
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Categories:
donne, muse, poets, romance, seasons,
Form:
Romanticism
Existentialist Examinermy voice may not be loud
I may not stand out in the crowd
not game changer
but a strange stranger
that's me
others have a louder roar
other wings, a...
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Categories:
donne, humanity, identity, voice,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
' a Metaphysical Moment ...'‘ A Metaphysical Moment ’
A Metaphysical Moment
Electrifying To The Touch
Breathless, Thru The Clouds
Can My Heart, Take So Much
… Can My Eyes Endure
All This...
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Categories:
donne, adventure, allegory, education, fantasy,
Form:
Light Verse
Injustice and MeVerily verily you are not all alone
Unfairness has stayed with us history has shown
Injustice to anyone is injustice to me
I lament any injustice to those...
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Categories:
donne, america, blessing, destiny, earth,
Form:
Couplet
For Whom the Death TollsYou are told there is no pandemic.
You are told it’s all a hoax.
You are told it’s a deep state conspiracy.
Three thousand deaths here,
...
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Categories:
donne, allusion, america, death, funeral,
Form:
Political Verse
We Came From Different Worldswe came from different worlds
cowboy boots and motorcycle
she carried pen and paper as did i
hers was to communicate with the world
mine was the labor in...
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Categories:
donne, memorial, memory,
Form:
Free verse
How Does One CompeteHow does one compete with a Frost or a Keats,
a Dickinson or Whitman for words,
how can we say in our language today
what we feel within...
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Categories:
donne, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme