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Best Generous Poems

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


Premium Member The Generous Bard
(The Merry Adventures of Robin Good)

Sherwood's Forest legendary, leading man 
up, down, tricking eggs between branches
slender, slander, his voice is growing thinner
twisting, turning heads 50...

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Categories: generous, abuse, character, community, corruption,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: generous, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Glory of the Eastern Edge
In moments of twilight civility
an exchange of gifts - 
darkness for light..

RISING

from beyond the softening silhouette edge
you brighten like a blushing damsel
hazy haloed
unabashed in the...

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Categories: generous, appreciation, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

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Categories: generous, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: generous, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic



Premium Member When a Man Loves a Woman - When a Woman Loves a Man
When a Man Loves a Woman

A man who loves a woman in the way
a woman wants him to will love her true.
He’ll hold her close,...

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Categories: generous, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: generous, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
I Am But a Grain of Sand
"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach, 
and I am but a grain of sand."
      ...

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Categories: generous, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: generous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its stream  

Saturating me with...

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Categories: generous, desire, destiny, passion, true
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...

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Categories: generous, fate, lost love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Today
Embrace the miracle of Today's birth;
     the beginning of everything.
     
     Incapable of...

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Categories: generous, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys

When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...

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Categories: generous, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: generous, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Motherland
Motherland…

I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze...

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Categories: generous, emotions, feelings, longing, peace,
Form: Masnavi

Book: Reflection on the Important Things