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Best Glanced Poems

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


Premium Member The Day I Became a Poet
I remember the day I became a poet.

In the magnificence of the submerging sun,
I glanced upon her admiring its majesty.
Amidst hues of clementine and lilac,
her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: glanced, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member The Red Umbrella
I was going on a blind date and walked across town
The weather wasn’t kind, rain was pouring down
It was my friend’s sister and he arranged...

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Categories: glanced, dream, rain, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Avi, Oh Avi
Oh Avi, Avi
  Sometimes, with my eyes closed
    I see you dance
      A dervish, whirling, like...

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Categories: glanced, boy, dance, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bright Light Has Gone Out In Soup Creek
It was coming up for Christmas in the town of Soup Creek
Everyone was in good spirits and they had been all week
Jenna's saloon was very...

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Categories: glanced, america, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
A Getaway To Ancient Venice
I can still recall the look upon His face

Each thought still makes me go to that enchanting place

The vernal air was floral sweet and honey...

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Categories: glanced, love, passion,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Close Encounter
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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Categories: glanced, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Memories and Ghosts
In the two days since my arrival, Granddad and I exchanged only a few predictable, cursory words.

“You sleep okay?” Granddad asked.

Although his silent house had...

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Categories: glanced, family, grandfather, memory, silence,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Faces of Loneliness
The routine ride home from a neighboring town, seemed different today.  
As I glanced at the dirty, sandy spot left on the usually spotless...

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Categories: glanced, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Want To Be a Princess
Let me tell you a story....
of a little girl who didn't want to be a Princess!!!!

it happened a long time ago, in the life of an adorable...

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Categories: glanced, children, life, princess,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One Love, One Life
I gazed at your beauty and your hair cascading,
You glanced at me- O, he is handsome, this man;
Your sensuous lips so tempting, captivating,
I laughed and...

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Categories: glanced, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member The One That Got Away - Silence of What Ifs
If a poet falls in love with you
you will live forever.
Atticus Finch - To kill a mockingbird.

In the midst of conundrums, of 'what ifs.'

I dislike...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: glanced, loss, love, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Perfect Painting
I could not refrain from asking what it was that made her sigh
When each picture that she started she took down. I wondered why.
The young...

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Categories: glanced, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald...

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Categories: glanced, dark, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Silent Alarm
For some reason, this morning her alarm clock failed to sound. With eyes half closed,
 she glanced at the clock.  It was around 8...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: glanced, life,
Form: Haibun
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: glanced, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs