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Best Gray Poems

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


Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: gray, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: gray, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: gray, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: gray, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Campfire
CAMPFIRE 

I thirst to taste your solid wood stare
I see you and no one else 
Nestling under the stars
Hungry for each others ears

Chasing every comet across the...

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Categories: gray, analogy, animal, earth, fire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: gray, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: gray, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love of Nature
Whether ocean or mountain with valley green
or every deep forest in between

My love for Nature fills my eyes
With every creature of Earth and sky

The changing...

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Categories: gray, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...

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Categories: gray, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: gray, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Someone Who Used To Be You
When splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies

I...

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Categories: gray, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: gray, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Dewdrops
You hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...

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Categories: gray, emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
One Green Leaf
One leaf fell from a tall, tall tree
and subtly kissed gnarled roots beneath;
a lover’s kiss below sunned-sheath 
of greenest leaves, a jubilee.  

One spiraling...

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Categories: gray, color, green, holiday, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Kaleidoscope Eyes
Round and round I go 
Unfolding my spirit of envy and gold
The nascence of a new stone
Hazel room, vibrant lilac sky, 
Deep orange haze in...

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Categories: gray, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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