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Best Expressive Poems

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


Premium Member Sand, Sun-Kissed and Sandals
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. . . someone like me, sultry and carefree,
          becomes excited in tender moments,
 ...

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Categories: expressive, longing, romance, seasons, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured deeply with rapture stored, sweet love-nights...

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Categories: expressive, appreciation, beautiful, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Butterfly Landings
Butterfly Landings 



It’s a precarious perch
High by a skydive
In such a leap of faith
A leap of love
Circumnavigates these boots of Earth
Fellow to the stratospheres
These butterfly...

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Categories: expressive, lost love, lovebutterfly, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That's Poetry
The difference between good poetry
and great poetry – not a concentration
of words and phrases, nor meter
and rhyme...but the source, that gives
longevity its immortal time –...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expressive, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Florida Keys Please
No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...

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Categories: expressive, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Wondrous Night
With his first touch our galaxy became an orchestra,
I quivered as waves of ecstasy took possession of me,
I felt I was no more in control...

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Categories: expressive, stars,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: expressive, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member My Choir Director
My choir director
                    is a painter
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expressive, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for dawning gleam across powdered snow
and she her handsome soldier to soon show
for...

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Categories: expressive, desire, husband, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry: a Profound Sense of Beauty - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
In this wondrous world, we are bound
to the silent realms of our poetic souls

where white doves flutter and sighing words whisper
as dreams are dreamt with...

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Categories: expressive, appreciation, beauty, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For My Sister and Brother Poets
For My Sister and Brother  Poets

Mornings, again refreshed, I wield up a 
sledgehammer to strike the stone walls of 

the confinement of my assigned...

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Categories: expressive, friendship, giving, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Fiery Blue Eyes
Standing by her hospital bed, I didn’t feel the pain
Instead, I felt sorrow that she looked so very frail
Like a rose that’s been sitting in...

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Categories: expressive, age, death, depression, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Loves Painting
Before you I am your canvas blank 
Delicately to paint linear and in liquid hues 
Dripping and splashing we two drank 
Forceful stimulated strokes you...

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Categories: expressive, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetry Express
Thundering beats my heart along

As hooves upon the tundra wide
I rejoice at life, Its reveal inside
Repeat echo, of tales millennia told
Heart and sinew; my desires...

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Categories: expressive, allegory, appreciation, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grateful
You are like the kiss of wind,
Lightly caressing – gentle, expressive,
Kissing away my fears, each tear…
With a gentling that breathes love into
Everything…

You are like the...

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Categories: expressive, appreciation, blessing, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

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