Best Em Poems
Below are the all-time best Em poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of em poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
em, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
em, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Fire and IcePart I: Ice
He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...
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Categories:
em, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
em, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
It Matters NotIt hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.
I follow on along a...
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Categories:
em, dark, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
Melancholic TreeIn the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.
Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below,
an isolated tree - naked and...
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Categories:
em, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Wintered Soul Among WisteriaOne need not read her horoscope to know
this woman's fate, and though wisteria
cascades sweet blooms of lavender like snow
outside her door, it's still Siberia
pervading the...
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Categories:
em, grief,
Form:
Sonnet
Glory of Her MagnificenceOceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.
Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...
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Categories:
em, change, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
em, love, nature, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
em, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Never Shame a WomanNever ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole
Never ever shame a woman
for...
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Categories:
em, passion, women,
Form:
Quatrain
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
em, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
ShadowIt was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...
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Categories:
dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
em, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Uncharted WatersAn ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,
yet I am...
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Categories:
em, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme