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Best English Speaking Poems

Below are the all-time best English Speaking poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of english speaking poems written by PoetrySoup members


Incredible India
We are the Indians noted for our humanness and calm nature
With no harshness in our Principles and ideals.
We are open minded, emotional and good natured
Our...

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Categories: english speaking, patriotic, integrity, universe,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Nomen Global Style
Nomen global style, Nomen style 

1.  I’m in this school because I’m learning real English.
    I’m walking down the hallway and...

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Categories: english speaking, school,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member What Do I Know About Being German
Born American, sixth generation of great-grands all German,
not much liking sausage or sauerkraut, English speaking all the way,

except the Germany of my ancestry was fought...

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Categories: english speaking, america, community, drink, farm,
Form: Couplet
If I Tell You
If I Tell You, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez

If I tell you, Puerto Rican I am
What comes to mind?
Morena of “el barrio” or Blonde woman of...

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Categories: english speaking, introspection, woman, dark, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nach Bhfuil Mo Locht
Nach Bhfuil Mo Locht 
or for you English speaking people
"No Mea Culpa"


The Titanic was fine when it left Belfast
Not a blemish on Her hull, or...

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Categories: english speaking, funny, humorous, ireland,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Plymouth Colony - Thanksgiving
A year has passed. The dark clouds still loom.
 From the sea voyage, harsh winter, disease, and doom.
 The Mayflower set sail 102 Pilgrims aboard,
...

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Categories: english speaking, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Narrative
Awakening Tagore Poem Recast
Him fountain of eternal joy from 
Where life is renewed, 
Ageing and life to be drained out, exit 
From the world is nigh, 
When suddenly...

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Categories: english speaking, beauty, inspirational, life, light,
Form: Light Verse
Day of Death Embarrassment and Condiments
To say today has been a strange day would be an understatement. It started off this morning when I went into the den where our...

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Categories: english speaking, cat, cheer up, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Portmanteau
He exited the train carrying a luxurious
                  ...

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Categories: english speaking, imagination,
Form: Free verse
My English
It had been very hard for me
to speak with West
through translators, 
usually Russians ones
anchored by intelligent services, 
KGB or related them 
with such or others...

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Categories: english speaking, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Do
Do, I dare, read more to.day.
Re, I love just what they saaaay!
Mi, oh my, what can it be,
Fa, so far up in their miiinds...
SOL, of...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: english speaking, musiclove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gold Nutrition Standards
If political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior as exterior landscapes
for cooperative/competitive nutrient-flow/struggle
and dynamic birth through decomposition trends?

Both political and economic researchers,
one and all...

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Categories: english speaking, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Long Ago, Memories of a Cold Winter Night Conversation
Long Ago, Memories Of A Cold Winter Night Conversation
(Narrative/Rhyme)

Hebridean isles, once sang to me in a dream,
She her beautiful hair silky, so very long
There rests...

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Categories: english speaking, art, best friend, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Street Cleaner
The Street Cleaner 
He is not a lucky man, but he is happy but one day he won on a lottery ticket, 
not a not...

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Categories: english speaking, absence, abuse, analogy, business,
Form: Ballade
Sol.Fresh.Is
In thanks to all who have supported my contest!  It's been a wonderful time reading your
rhymes and I still, don't know how I will...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: english speaking, friendship, funny, happiness, healthsong,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things