Get Your Premium Membership

Best Factual Poems

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


Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Poetry Soup - a Souper Site
Fake News

As I was reading on the Soup with my morning cup-o-joe.
I saw a disturbing statement and it worried me so.
It was about our Poetry...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Funeral
That he planned his funeral is factual
And being a prankster quite actual
He prerecorded his voice
So when we kneeled on the joist
He said, "Hi there! Don't...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, funny, imagination, song-
Form: Limerick
For Lion Hearts Only
You Are The One I think of the most.You know and carry unconditional love.You have experienced the pains of pains.When You're not in My presence...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, beautiful, blessing, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Happened
WHAT HAPPENED

Darkness is enveloping sinister 
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a 
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, dark, faith, light,
Form: Rhyme



No One Is Perfect
Don't know why people boast and stand erect, 
As I have heard no one is perfect.
Is it only money or power for this cause?
And for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, anti bullying, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Why
Written after one of those terrible murderous massacres of children in what is supposed to be a safe haven … SCHOOL!!

A cruel sea
a raging storm
calm...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, anger, death,
Form: Rhyme
Jinxed a Collaboration With Silent One
Draw me closer as two hearts become one.
Under sweet warmth of a new dawn's sun.
As our souls entwine there is no reason to run.
Our opalescent...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There You Are Again
There you are again, showing up unexpectedly, in what I see.
Taking my mind on a trip like a screaming train.
As the whistle of truth echoing,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, angst, image, memory, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Atheist
Science defines my virtue.
Factual and fictional books are my domain.
Don’t speak to me of pixies, fairies, and unicorns,
Or of your monopoly on morality, love, faith,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, atheist,
Form: Ballad
Baqreid the 2nd Eid
This day to celebrate the supreme sacrifice
of the ancient prophet Abraham
This day to ponder and reminisce
that divine substitution of Ismail for a ram! 

This Quranic...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, celebration, faith,
Form: Tazkira
Premium Member Hieroglyphs and Holograms

Hieroglyphics
   used in old Egyptian times
      communication-
through symbols, signs, and pictures;
non-verbal interactions.

Ancient Egyptians
   interpreted at a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, allusion, art, symbolism, technology,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Why Do I Write Poetry - Updated
Why do I write poetry?
I am sure some people here wonder just why I do! 
For my poems were once described as ‘simple’
And to others...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Me Myself and I
My self-awareness is clear.
Blunt. 
It's ugly and painful. To call it enlightening, is putting it lightly.
Honestly though, it's relieving, intriguing, and totally necessary. 
Character building,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, addiction, anger, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Symphony of Me
This is the story of my life,
So filled with joys and strife;
This is the story of my days--
Through countless doorways!

This is the story of my...

Read more of this work...
Categories: factual, history, joy, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things