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Best Fortnight Poems

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


Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: fortnight, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oh Goddess Moon
Oh Goddess Moon, you induce painters to paint,
the crazed to rave and poets to praise your grace.
How many love affairs have you helped to consummate?
With...

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Categories: fortnight, moon,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Olena and Pavlo
Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Categories: fortnight, death, love, soldier, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Star Crossed Lovers, Romeo and Juliet
       Such deep, impassioned, love
       startles our mortal ways.
    ...

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Categories: fortnight, death, innocence, inspirational love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Appear My Queen At the Pier
As the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free...

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Categories: fortnight, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



But It's Time
The cock hasn't been seen in a fortnight 
but it's time 
the vagabonds have all but vacated   
and the windows boarded up 
  
don't...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortnight, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fo'C's'Le - a Dream
fo'c·'sle    /'fohksel/  noun  deriv: forecastle
      1. the forward part of a ship below the deck,...

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© Ken Rone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortnight, boat, endurance, history, native
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member My Spinal Decompression Surgery
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...

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Categories: fortnight, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme
What We Had Was Real
Tonight, it happened all over    again
I was just lying here, when–
it hit me just like before.  Only
this time it was more...

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Categories: fortnight, lost love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heloise On Abelard
These barren walls
Keep me chaste
Vows of silence
Diminish nothing of wanton passions of the past
Days in silence, looking upwards to God
Thoughts linger, to where true love...

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Categories: fortnight, beauty, history, love, me,
Form: Light Verse
Beyond the Lantern Light
'Twas a fortnight fraught with tainted stars;
'Midst mournful tears salting Neptune's sea.
A withered lass swallows internal scars,
'Twixt purist passions removed from thee.

Thoust bravest beloved her...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortnight, fantasy
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Valentine's Hope
I've focused on this evening
For near a fortnight now
Each element planned to perfection
Every detail intended to wow

I admit that in the past
My efforts have been...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortnight, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Oceanic Wisdom
16th & 28th may 2012.
By: SASHI PRABHU (ZEAUOXIS) 

A fortnight back, an evening drove me to Sernabatim shores,
To calm my mind’s fury that was churning...

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Categories: fortnight, inspirational, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Veronique
Pardon ma'am, but I noticed you've been staring at this painting for a while
She is beautiful but has such a melancholy face, it's hard to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortnight, heartbroken, woman,
Form: Narrative
A Love Beyond Comprehension
She sat in the moonlight, her back to the bay,
Absorbed in thoughts of her own destruction.
A fortnight ago she had come to the rock;
At the...

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Categories: fortnight, conflict, deep, destiny, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs