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Best Giving Poems

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


Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: giving, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Reflection
Love neither gives or takes but from itself.
Be not wiled by fantasies of arrogance.
Take no more than is offered by yourself.
Leave nothing trapped in tortured...

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Categories: giving, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gifts of Reflection
The Angels have come
to take me away
The only hug I can give
are the words I write today
In my shaking hand
They've placed a golden pen
So I...

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Categories: courage, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Could
if i could,             

                         i'd  wish a magic wand....

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Categories: giving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Carolyn Devonshire
There lives a grand lady near the sea
In Ormand where she delights to be.
She is a Poetess, words she shares
In lovely poems, her heart she...

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Categories: best friend, blessing, giving,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Three Legged Table
When all is but 
dark and dreary,
and coldness wraps the 
silhouette of 
my wooden surface,
I listen to the 
wafer thin whispers
echoing in whimsy tones-
when the...

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Categories: deep, giving, loneliness,
Form: Personification
Lottery Winner Helps Homeless
As I walked into the banquet hall of the 
 Goodman’s Inn, the first thing that stood
 out to me were the eyes of the...

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Categories: care, celebration, christmas, giving,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sir Poet, Hold True To Thy Gifts Long Given
Sir Poet, Hold True To Thy Gifts Long Given


Sir poet, why hast thy broken thy true pen?
Are not thy words intended to help and heal?
Pray...

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Categories: giving, art, creation, dedication, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Soul Mates Solace
When my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...

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Categories: giving, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgotten Gifts
She sat in her little cottage
Her ears tuned
Her body alive
Waiting…
Waiting for that knock on the door
Anytime now
She pulled back the frilly curtains
And peered out at...

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Categories: giving, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Because He Gave a Single Rose
Her tired old eyes lit up bright.
A thankful tear, she could not hide.
A sweet aroma fills her nose;
because he gave a single rose.

Confined to this...

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Categories: blessing, giving,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Give and Take
The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love...

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Categories: giving, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Uplifting
I flew over Bryce Canyon my wings fully spread in a gentle glide 
as I marveled at the view below. It wasn't the first time...

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Categories: giving,
Form: Prose
Premium Member An Angels Tear
An angel shed a tear from both her soul and her heart
As she viewed the Earth’s beauty that its people called art
Their art came from...

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Categories: blessing, giving, happiness, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Gift of a Lifetime - To End On Saturday March 20th 2077
I’ve received an incredible gift 
It has given my heart such a lift 
But the date that I see 
Is what now concerns me ...

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Categories: appreciation, giving, humorous, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Loving
Loving is to through a pebble into the sea
and the ripple become a wave
to plant a seed
and it become a tree
to cook a meal
and it...

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Categories: lovewords, giving, love, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Six Slopes
The six steep slopes they gave me..  
yes, all were mine.

I can give them to you..
if you wish them.

Though they tend to be.,
unkind. 

Don't...

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Categories: giving, dream, extended metaphor, forgiveness,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Last Token
Be the halo of moon in a starless sky
Be the angel of smiles for tearful eyes
A beacon of hope in despair of grief 
A lighthouse...

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Categories: giving, perspective,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pearls of Wisdom
When it is time for me to pass away
I’ll pack and leave; I dare not overstay.
But ere I drift out slowly with the tide
I’d wish...

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Categories: giving, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'twas the Night Before Christmas and Christ Was Left Out
Twas the night before christmas 
and Christ was left out,
with no peep of the Good News,
no mountainous shout.

Stockings were hung 
by the chimney the same,...

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Categories: celebration, christmas, giving, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gift That I Give You
I will not give you the moon
rather I will give you moonlight
glowing on a calm sea
where the stars glittering gleams
lay on top of each wave,...

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Categories: giving, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Usefulness
All gifts must be given to sustain their usefulness.
Like blood, life is in the flow, if not flowing, blood dries and dies.
Movement, the constant changing,...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: birth, giving, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gift of Time

The giving of time is a special gift-
     can never be wrapped in paper and bows.
Always delivered with love in the...

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Categories: giving, time,
Form: Rhyme
Please Take the Time
So many times we see someone in need
Most walk by while they piteously plead
Plead for help that may not come
Plead for love because they have...

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Categories: care, community, giving, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme