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Best Forbade Poems

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


The Tawny Throstle
Trudging under frozen starlit skies
Against stiff Winters bitter blowes...
When ambling up past frosted trees
From the wooded valley down below.

As stepping into a clearing glade,
Surround ragged...

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Categories: forbade, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls

I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven...

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Categories: forbade, beauty, dedication, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saint Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day
                      ...

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Categories: forbade, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enlightenment, Hope and Harmony
God sent His only Son to Earth to bring
Enlightenment, Hope and Harmony.
Free will forbade that he should force
The Truth on world that would not see.

For...

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Categories: forbade, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Man Walks Blindly and Heart Begs Relief
Where Man Walks Blindly And Heart Begs Relief

In the gnashing of teeth rests 
a curse hurled at infinity
with its smug cannons of false piety
and impudent...

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Categories: forbade, art, blue, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Brother - Billy
It started growing in a field
Billy Stover watched it grow

Because the corn was tall
Because Billy Stover was small
No one knew
Now one saw

No one saw how...

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Categories: forbade, brother, childhood, family, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Coming of Age
My eldest brother, nine years old,
Thought he could break a horse.
Our mother strictly forbade him.
A mother’s right of course.
Her young son mustered all his wiles,
Hoping...

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Categories: forbade, adventure, brother, childhoodson, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Desert Flower
A desert flower shrouded in black,
she exudes the sweetness of a rose.
And sidles away from my approach,
her emotions hidden by a veil.

Dazzling eyes of cerulean...

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Categories: forbade, beautiful, culture, desire, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Fromage, James Tate Style
I once shocked you
by my Queen Maud Fromage poem,
remembering a time
when the good Queen Maud
choked on the heavy stuff.

Her courtiers were 
about her suddenly,
and Queen...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbade, food, imagery, surreal,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bright Eyes Potd
I so adored late hours. I was what you would call a night owl,
As fireflies seldom appear, until creamy moon is on the prowl.

I loved...

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Categories: forbade, fantasy, imagery, nature, night,
Form: Couplet
Sleep Remedy
I've told you how desperate
I am for sleep,
And I got a suggestion
It made me leap
Simplicity itself ; earslugs!

So I went out on a slug hunt,
Without...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbade, adventure, confusion, fantasy, funny,
Form: Burlesque
Sunday Memories
I remember the days when I was small,
 obedient and too young  to be alone at a mall
Mama would let me go out and...

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Categories: forbade, childhoodme,
Form: Free verse
Cousins In Love
(This poem is based on a movie I saw.)

It was tragic when two teenagers died.
They couldn't be together so they committed suicide.
They were cousins and...

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Categories: forbade, death, father, love, mother,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask
When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask

From her sepulchre she sent her calls
or was it from my darkest midnight walls.
Yet in those calls, mixed...

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Categories: forbade, art, dark, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Divine Strength
My divine strength, shield my dismay 
Exult holly swiftness
Yield not to dull gloomy betray 
Creed gapes at lavishness
 
Yield the boon, not the bad
Dark source...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbade, analogy, beauty, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

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