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Best Forwards Poems

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


Premium Member Pathos
Nobody observes her leaving her room
wearing just her nightdress and red felt carpet slippers
Shuffling silently she slips out of the front door onto the street
Rivulets...

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Categories: forwards, dark, memory, old, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ransom
"Ransom"




Held to ransom 
words inject your mind
pierce your skin
drawn backwards 
you transcend, 
you look within
a bloodied mind
the numbness melts
inconsequential ignobles
and dreary misfortune
a polar ice cap...

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Categories: forwards, birth, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Sorrow
She sits alone 
She draws her knees up to her shoulders, hugging them tightly
She shivers in the icy wind 
Her teeth chatter and the stream...

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Categories: forwards, death, depression, loss, sadheart,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - the Imprints of Time -
To turn your mind

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Categories: forwards, death, fate, life, memory,
Form: Verse
Temple of the Gods-Palindrome
Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne...

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Categories: forwards, evil, power, prison,
Form: Rhyme



Why Dot Won'T Leave the Farm
Dot Blogs she was a buxom lass and hefty heifer too
who married Bobby Eugene Blows when she was twenty- two.
They lived upon a dairy farm...

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Categories: forwards, humorous, night, old, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Are You
Sunshine Smile one of my best friends on soup,
We started communicating within our group,
From the second month onwards,
And so we continued forwards.
On the 24th May...

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Categories: forwards, smile, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Our Little Group
Our Little Group
   by Bob (Robert) Moore © 2016
I love to read the poetry, 
the verse, the rhyme, the symmetry
it’s there for all...

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Categories: forwards, friendship, fun, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Flipside
"The Flipside" 

We write 
our hearts out

we pull 
the catch back in

slowly, 
they read,

we think, 
too fast

swallowed 
in the hollowed out

hallowed hearts measured 
ounce per...

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Categories: forwards, muse, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member For the Fallen In Flanders Field - Original
Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.

Forsaking fissures and furrows,
forced forwards with...

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Categories: forwards, conflict, death, history, memorial,
Form: Alliteration
Without You
I have been on our beach,  for 6 hours today
I watched it fill up with umbrellas and tourists

I watched children play in the sand
Adults...

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Categories: forwards, absence, beach, boyfriend, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Frivolous Queen
Beautiful, frivolous queen bided her time. 
The castle stood tall and strong.
Silence reigned.  No one dared to speak.
Below the enemy had gathered ready for...

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Categories: forwards, analogy, riddle,
Form: Free verse
The Shores of Time
My ideas bounce off my words echoing the future onto the page
As my clarity begins to age 
Into a rage
Where water doesn’t flow 
But sprays

You...

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Categories: forwards, timewords,
Form: I do not know?
On Monmouth's Fields, Part Ii
...He reformed the routing patriots,
formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill,
brought in General Knox and the artillery,
commanding the mass through sheer force of will.

He...

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Categories: forwards, america, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Epic
April Showers
Of first embrace and broken glass
I cherish that first spark
New light upon our forest' dark.

Do you recall that northern wind? 
It came at first so...

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Categories: forwards, devotion, life, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

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