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Best Foibles Poems

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


Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: foibles, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman,
     she looks beyond the surface of
        ...

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Categories: foibles, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feathered Enchantment
In a room that once commanded great respect,
stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation.
There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings
and laughter rolling through the...

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Categories: foibles, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Strong Coffee Ate a Silver Spoon
Strong Coffee Ate A Silver Spoon

Strong coffee ate a silver spoon
Blind feline lapped up the spilled milk
Sweet relief cannot come too soon
I slept on sheets...

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Categories: foibles, allegory, angst, art, break
Form: Rhyme
My Last Will and Testament
Being of sound mind 
and rational thought,
I bequeath
willfully and voluntarily,
 
To the stars my dreams
To the winds my wishes and whims
My foibles and follies
to the...

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Categories: foibles, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Darkness
Darkness stalked through the shadowed lands
only briefly glimpsed before vanishing.
It passed through valleys and ridges leaving
in its wake despair and torment and Blood soaked lands.

No...

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Categories: foibles, dark, light,
Form: Verse
Haiku - Wonders of Nature and 2 Senryu
HAIKU & TWO SENRYU
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


white sky... low the clouds
winter... stuck in a drift again
spring... where are you...
~~~
the bobbin dipper flies
below our secret rivers
spring... summer delight
~~~
ring ouzel......

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Categories: foibles, nature,
Form: Haiku
To My Poet Friend
He is my poet friend
I know his voice
through the stroking of his pen
A kind-hearted gentle giant,
who towers above lesser humans
His compassion has made him grow
into...

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Categories: foibles, friend, poets, tribute, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leading the Way
In her soul she exposes naked memories and lust for life

          A rebel conceived in a...

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Categories: foibles, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acceptance
A ccept life as it unfolds 
C omplaining only leaves things worse
C oncur with agreeable suggestions
E ndure the adverse currents of life
P ostpone judgement till...

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Categories: foibles, endurance, happiness, trust,
Form: Acrostic
Mission Statement
I don’t care about your colour 
I don’t care about your creed
I don’t  care about your gender
Or  about your sexual need 
Don’t care...

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Categories: foibles, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green Bean Casseroles
Shame on those who malign the green bean casserole!
It gustatory delightfulness I shall e'er extol!
With 'fork in cheek' I'll take nonbelievers to task,
And their foibles...

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Categories: foibles, food, funny, green,
Form: Rhyme
24 Seconds of Silence, For Kobe
24 seconds of silence for (Kobe Bryant)

Twenty four seconds of silence,
seems like forever, 
and yet seems so short.  

Just like Kobe's journey in life,
so...

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Categories: foibles, basketball, death, encouraging, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Embrace Your Individuality
Whether you're white
               or black, or biracial, or check "other"
 ...

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Categories: foibles, encouraging, humanity, identity, race,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Jesus
The way..' Which way? Shown them; us.. One life.'
In a world containing many angles.
Having doubt as downtime probes in' faces observe,
Backs hold awareness yet in...

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Categories: foibles, blessing,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs