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Best Forming Poems

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


Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: forming, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Poets Come Together As One
Lets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, hope, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Where Do We Poets Go
Ink of life cannot bleed for eternity,
so I place dried petals in between,
crucial chapters of my memoirs.

When we stop breathing poetry,
our crestfallen pen, left in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, death, life, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A New Beginning
with each crest of a wave
forming white crystal peaks
she weeps, inhales, let's go.

beneath a star studded vista
a resplendent guiding light
arms open, palms up, she is...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, emotions, grief, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Is the Cure
When smoke consumes clear horizons,
manipulating corridors of the mind,
beckoning imminent afflictions

poetry is the remedy.

A poet's first eternal love,
forming an authentic bond.
A tonic of silent expressions
creating...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise. 

An...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, life,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member - a Most Beautiful Symphony of Love -
Rhythmic tones form a most beautiful symphony of love 
A shining star as nature's splendor reflects Heaven’s light 
It’s my destiny to learn a passion...

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Categories: forming, art, beauty, love, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: forming, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: forming, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Moon's Song

A tepid breeze delicately descends,
embedding a sphere of embers engulfed in saffron flames,
but intrinsic illuminations cannot soothe somber sorrows.
Splashes of persimmon and periwinkle horizons,
turn indigo,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, absence, analogy, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colors For Mother
COLORS for MOTHER,

Looking towards the blue sky
Every color camouflaged around the cloud
Tears of sadness began to dry
Watching all the colors display out loud

The dark needing...

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Categories: forming, art, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melodies of the Heart
In a black and white world,
feathered fingertips caress
ebony and ivory keys -
melodically forming a myriad
of vibrant and vivid hues, 
diversifying dulcet emotive reflections.

In a world...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forming, analogy, love, music, romantic
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs