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Best Finality Poems

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


The View From a Window
A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...

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Categories: finality, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley
178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: finality, death,
Form: Free verse
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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Categories: finality, brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sounds of a Rose
THE SOUNDS OF A ROSE

The Red Rose speaks softly
	with velvety smoothness, it beckons me
	come, hear my song of gladness
	as I sing a lullaby

The Yellow Rose...

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Categories: finality, flower, rose,
Form: Free verse
Be It Only By Dreams
With the onset of advancing age, so I find,        
A man grows weary of all mundane talk; ...

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Categories: finality, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unbearable This Longing
Closing the lamp as another year shuts off
I am between solitude and scream --
when dusk’s music aches like a groan
as brother's demise wraps veiled nights
in...

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Categories: finality, death, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Lady Is a Tramp
They enter the strip
joint like the last 
flurrie of flakes.

She hears the music,
hears the voice of the 
D.J. Wind, enters on cue.

Her cold poles await her 
as she moves...

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Categories: finality, cool,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: finality, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Me Translate
Let me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality

Or better yet
Let me translate them into...

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Categories: finality, language, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Testament
My father's abeng blew up my mother's womb
And I was chained there
Nine months in darkness drinking blood
Longing for my resurrection from the tomb
Longing to break...

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Categories: finality, politicalme, history, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Empty Street
One Texan day, a man close to his prime,
sat down on a curb beside a tree.
It was an empty street; there was no crime
nor danger...

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Categories: finality, brother, sad,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Music - Potd
Music 

Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart...

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Categories: finality, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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Categories: finality, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortality
“I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to
have some version of such a thing is through my books.”
   ...

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Categories: finality, poetry,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Swan
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
                   ...

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Categories: finality, bird, feelings, me, parody,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things