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Best Finishing Poems

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


Premium Member Swan Ballerina Pages
Like delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.

But what are ballerinas with...

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Categories: finishing, poetess, poetry,
Form: Personification



Premium Member There Lies Art
The easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd

The sun melts on...

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Categories: finishing, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simple Musings From a Heterosexual Male With Unkempt Facial Hair
Every discovery started with absolutely 
     no idea of where to start...
     
    ...

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Categories: finishing, muse, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Thoughts On Psalm 23
Beside the still waters he leadeth me
Shepherd of my wandering soul
I do not want for anything, you see,
My shepherd has made me whole.

I have walked...

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Categories: finishing, religious, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member One Last Dream
To shivering seas 
   mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms 
with blue orchids 
   ...

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Categories: finishing, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On Four Walls
Their young strong-willed son,
ever resourceful,
has been given "time out" for bad behavior.
There is no noise coming from the room.
After two hours, 
the mother grows concerned.
Why...

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Categories: finishing, child,
Form: Free verse
Not Built Strong Enough
Erector sets and wooden blocks
Dominoes and house of cards
Built way up to be knocked down
Scattered all across the ground
Model cars and airplane kits
Making sure each...

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Categories: finishing, love, relationship, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Thoughts
Poetry Thoughts

I write my poems in a deep thought
with the pain my life dearly bought
Lost, listening to my vanishing muse
this world's whispers I often use!

Words...

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Categories: finishing, appreciation, art, beautiful, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Doors
I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an...

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Categories: finishing, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Because You'Re a Poet, That's Why - a Repost
Because you’re a poet, that’s why 


Behind the thick crimson and gold thread curtains
he stands listening to the din of the audience
searching their seats for...

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Categories: finishing, poetry,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Casual Observation
It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...

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Categories: finishing, angst,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Lending Both Hands
Let me 
lend a hand
I can’t sit
when you 
have to stand
When you 
can’t do it all
together we can

It’s not 
a woman thing
It’s more than
just gender...

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Categories: finishing, care, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bigger Life
some days you may
be low on strength
i’ll give you mine
life is bigger than cancer

we feed off each other
the closeness of our bond
finishing each other’s
thoughts and...

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Categories: finishing, cancer, confidence, encouraging, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hues of Heartfelt
Where dreams sit, in the moments just before a smile – in the hesitance just before a word – in the memory who holds so...

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Categories: finishing, appreciation, confidence, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Criminal Act
Before sentence is passed, please hear my plea
I promise to be the man that I should be
Don't give me death. Please be kind
I have a...

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Categories: finishing, funny, life, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

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