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Best Glimpsed Poems

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


Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: glimpsed, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: glimpsed, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I...

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Categories: glimpsed, blessing, christian, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: glimpsed, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pursuing the Comet
I glimpsed it one night floundering in dark,
still young of age, beset by whirls of doubt.
Not knowing on what journey to embark,
inside my gloom, I...

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Categories: glimpsed, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Reflecting On Police Brutality
It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion  
through southern Spain, across...

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Categories: glimpsed, violence, prejudice,
Form: Prose
Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: glimpsed, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Doors
‘Enter and explore’ read the sign above Blake’s Hall.    
Sliding open the French doors I stepped inside
where I was greeted by a...

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Categories: glimpsed, color, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
In the Graveyard of Soldiers
On sunny summer mornings
the myriad markers gleam 
and shimmer dreamlike
in the distance.
Visions from the stillness rise,
but only of the past,
for in this place,
time has come
to...

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Categories: glimpsed, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tiny Traveler
Adopted animals love their humans; 
show it in many ways.  
The tiniest pet, 
revels in the harmony of its time, 
with family.

Dinky was a...

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Categories: glimpsed, animal, humor, nature, pets,
Form: Prose
Forever Side By Side
I witnessed pure love spilled out in front of me

I watched him caressed her lovely face,
a tenderness of his touch eased her distress.
I heard him...

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Categories: glimpsed, inspiration, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dappled Dawn
Like melodies from night leaves sent over
Above the pebbled rivers, her hooves float
Across glens with misty drops of clover
Embroidered in a dwindling dark, she coats
The...

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Categories: glimpsed, horse, morning, night,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member See Sea Rider
I had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming...

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Categories: glimpsed, adventure, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Last Sigh
A wooden flute,
              I glimpsed among my mother’s treasured keepsakes in childhood. 
...

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Categories: glimpsed, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was Always You
Now I know
that it was--

Your radiance I glimpsed 
in every earthbound smile

Your joy I sensed in every
ripple of laughter

Your embrace I've longed for
in the applause...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: glimpsed, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things