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Best Equal Poems

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


Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: equal, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: equal, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: equal, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: equal, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member America the Broken
“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple...

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Categories: equal, abuse, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Political Verse



My Eyes
My eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...

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Categories: equal, father, mother, wife, ,
Form: Light Verse
Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: equal, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Course Correction
Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...

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Categories: equal, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: equal, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Was a Human
Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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Categories: equal, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: equal, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Give and Take
The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love...

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Categories: equal, giving, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Time Goes By
Born in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...

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Categories: equal, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Change the World
I imagined this world a far better place
Hunger and sadness removed every trace
The wars had all stopped there was peace on Earth
Joy accompanied every beautiful...

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Categories: equal, anxiety, beautiful, change,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: equal, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs