Best Explanation Poems
Below are the all-time best Explanation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of explanation poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
explanation, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Quarantine of the Soul-Quarantine of the Soul-
Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost
Dark
You open...
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Categories:
explanation, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...
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Categories:
explanation, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)
I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.
"A Rational...
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Categories:
explanation, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form:
Rhyme
The Four SeasonsThe Four Seasons…
It was spring and I was young when I had wine.
I was singing and dancing and doing fine.
The wine was so divine,...
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Categories:
explanation, age, allegory, allusion, seasons,
Form:
Rubaiyat
PlaygroundPlayground…
Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...
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Categories:
explanation, age, allusion, anger,
Form:
Masnavi
Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...
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Categories:
explanation, lost love, lust, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Slavery In HaitiHaiti, the home of voodoo practices
Seventeenth Century Spain cedes to France
Catholic Spaniards trembled when they saw
“Dead” men revived to wander in trances
A vile poison can...
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Categories:
explanation, history, socialgod, men, night,
Form:
Quatrain
Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn LeavesScurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.
a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying...
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Categories:
explanation, absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form:
Haibun
The Life IsThe Life Is …
The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...
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Categories:
explanation, allusion, angst, life, old,
Form:
Masnavi
Female Spiritwomen of dusk and dawn
who love to feast on their senses
in a banquet ripened by love and courage,
chilled to last till the moonlight
bequeaths more hours...
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Categories:
explanation, mystery, woman,
Form:
Free verse
DiamondsDiamonds
We all have so many diamonds that we own,
but we think of them as glass or bits of stone.
We often sell them as cheap pieces...
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Categories:
explanation, age, allusion,
Form:
Rubaiyat
The Lonely PlobawobbyIn a pond beside a meadow
Where the slime and algae gurgle
Dwells a lonely Plobawobby
Lurking deep in murky waters.
There in sludgy weedication
All day long alone he...
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Categories:
explanation, imagination, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Close EncounterI'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...
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Categories:
explanation, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
explanation, appreciation, education,
Form:
Verse