Best Followed Poems
Below are the all-time best Followed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of followed poems written by PoetrySoup members
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
followed, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
followed, music,
Form:
Narrative
I Wandered Lonely As a Boat"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind,
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
followed, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...
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Categories:
followed, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Silence PersonifiedI am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under
a billion snowflakes.
I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...
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Categories:
followed, analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form:
Personification
She Gathered Roses~
She gathered roses,
one at a time,
choosing carefully,
for you see, they were her healing
A light breeze tickled her hair
as a brief smile curved upon her soft...
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Categories:
followed, flower, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Stardust Road“Stardust Road.”
"Soft defense is driven by my thoughts,
I vanish away into yesterday’s scenic road,
Set the mood among the dark clouds,
Wish I could go back to...
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Categories:
followed, adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Streets of BloodStreets of blood
She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow
With swine and pearls running...
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Categories:
followed, hate, love, peace, war,
Form:
Rhyme
When Yesterday Was TodayOn cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely...
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Categories:
followed, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
Silent InflictionsChildhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind
the ocean a mysterious enigma.
Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...
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Categories:
followed, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...
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Categories:
followed, cheer up, mother, mother
Form:
Narrative
Just Within Reachjust within reach?
things!
lots of things!
stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...
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Categories:
followed, introspection,
Form:
I do not know?
Where the Wind BlowsI followed one day a spring breeze at play.
It seemed not to know where to go.
And aimlessly, I - like a butterfly -
meandered with it...
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Categories:
followed, wind,
Form:
Quatrain
Touched By Your FlameI watched them gather round
The warmth of your flame
Like campers at campfire time
Huddling close to you
Pushing and jostling
For the best place
I saw your warmth
Dancing off...
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Categories:
followed, fire, passion,
Form:
Free verse
To Hunt the BugabooWith the morning crisp and frosty
and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
...
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Categories:
followed, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme