Best Ground Poems
Below are the all-time best Ground poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ground poems written by PoetrySoup members
Conversation With My SoulDwell not, O soul, on yesterday,
on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago,
today may be...
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Categories:
ground, giving, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
ground, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
ShadowIt was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...
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Categories:
ground, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
ground, autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Fall In LoveF eeling enraptured, Autumn dances in the wind, then undresses.
A s bright robes fall to the ground, her passion paints the twilight skies.
L ike a...
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Categories:
ground, autumn, love, nature,
Form:
Acrostic
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
ground, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
ground, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
I Want Your Seeds**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel...
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Categories:
ground, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Sailing the Seas In a Pecan TreeThe wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...
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Categories:
ground, adventure, old,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
ground, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
ground, music,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...
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Categories:
ground, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
One April DayOne April day when spring was in the air,
I stepped outside so I might relish it.
I came upon a cherry tree so fair,
beneath its limbs...
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Categories:
ground, april,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
ground, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
ground, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse