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Best Grounded Poems

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


Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: grounded, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic



Somber Days
I am somber
like November days
and my words speak
weak, as if through tired tongue

I see the trees
stand naked
reaching their limbs
across the stream
as if touching
and comforting each...

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Categories: grounded, day, november, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Notions
Grounded by the gravity of our earth 
      Our body and spirit are often pulled 
In opposite opposing directions in
...

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Categories: grounded, character, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Our Love Language
Our Love Language

We have our own love language we both share
A squeeze of the hand, a half smile, a glance,
It’s the unspoken passion within our...

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Categories: grounded, death, heaven, loss, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Stranded In the Pools of Fate
on the threshold of tomorrow
through countless sighs 
i wait for you
stranded in the pools of fate
as the seconds fall grounded
like tears of all my yesterdays
in...

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Categories: grounded, angst,
Form: Free verse



Insanity Music
Last year, her imagination went double
So she ignored her previous schedule.
She put all her dreams inside of clear jars,
Decorated with different, assorted stars.

She believed if...

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Categories: grounded, change, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: grounded, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Tempt Me
You tempt me
As I sense your presence by my side
The whisper of your flowing silken dress
A whiff of fragrant jasmine scent.
 
You tempt me
With each...

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Categories: grounded, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
On the Backslide
another somber rise of day through autumn's reign
where clouded thoughts backslide through eyes
while the anguish of my pain lies misted in the lash of october's...

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Categories: grounded, autumn, feelings, sometimes,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Oasis In the Storm
There's an oasis of calm within you,
That stress cannot erase.
It shows in the way you cope with things,
Though not always on your face;

But you have...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grounded, courage, faith, hope,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member An Ode to Last Leaf
Quote: " I am the last leaf on the tree and the wind is blowing" --G. Hinckley

In the fading light of autumn's embrace, 
A poet's...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grounded, autumn,
Form: Ode
Gift To Myself
I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my...

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Categories: grounded, break up, emotions, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soup To Go
~Soup To Go~

This summer~ all I want is a bowl of soup 
A secret flavor that combines every veggie group 

    ...

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Categories: grounded, imagination, mystery, natureme, sweet,
Form: Couplet
I Hate You
I hate you because you stole my heart,
but I don’t want it returned;
The fact that it is safe with you,
is something I have learned.

I hate...

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Categories: grounded, crush, devotion, how i
Form: Rhyme
For Lion Hearts Only
You Are The One I think of the most.You know and carry unconditional love.You have experienced the pains of pains.When You're not in My presence...

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Categories: grounded, beautiful, blessing, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs