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Best Hardcover Poems

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


Perdidit Antiquum Litera Prima Sonum
The sky has dug a hole in the cloud
it's fuc**** triangle's fault  I can't see the pigs
stratified societies 
revitalized on schizophrenic base of
finger pointing...

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Categories: hardcover, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



All Crushed
Was round about the 60's
And I a budding teen
Was influenced and touched
By a program I had seen

Rod Sterling was the narrator
Of a series quite well...

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Categories: hardcover, loss, natural disasters, passion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Scenes From a Library
When spines of hardcover are marked with ink
upon their pages, old cedar drifts on
through brownish sheaths wrapped in pulp, distinct
with plots and main characters long...

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Categories: hardcover, adventure, books, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
There Is My Beloved, Sitting Under the Sun
There is my beloved, sitting under the Sun,
Tenderly is how the wind, embraces her waist,
Bitter because he cannot carry her away.
There is my beloved, sitting...

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Categories: hardcover, allegory, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member my little bookworm -
home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia

like manna...

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Categories: hardcover, analogy, appreciation, books, fun,
Form: Free verse



January Haiku
a lot scribbled on
last page of past diary
next one hardcover


January wind
Dodging electric wires web…
Kite sprang in to sky...

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Categories: hardcover, january,
Form: Haiku
My Lady of the Aisles
My Lady of the Aisles walks so headily between the texts.
Her switch is but a libracation,
Within the words laid down and spread before Us.Such passion...

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Categories: hardcover, fantasy, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Fascination of Books
Books...
                        ...

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Categories: hardcover, art, education, imagination, on
Form: Diamante
The Sunrise of Your Sacred Love
the sunrise of your sacred love,
paints the hollow desert in my mind,
scattered grains of windblown thoughts,  
frozen remnants from another time,
your liquid brush scrape...

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Categories: hardcover, devotion, imagination, inspirational, lost
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Orford Castle
Anglo-Saxon rulers were interned in the Orford castle.
Its polygonal edges secure the town's harbor from dazzle.
Many tallies of feral men caught in fisher webs hassle.
In...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hardcover, art, beauty, color, history,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A Book I'M Reading
Some things and projects are started but never finished.
Some other things were never intended for you to finish.
I knew a lady who told my wife...

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Categories: hardcover, character, christian, friendship,
Form: Narrative
People Are Like Books
People are like books.
Some are big, some are small.
Some come in a set, and some
Are standalone. 
Some are new.
Others: used.
Some hardcover, and some soft.
Some, we...

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Categories: hardcover, analogy, appreciation, peace, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 2nd Half
Here's the deal...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to...

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Categories: hardcover, betrayal, funny, humor, lost
Form: Narrative
If I'M Up.
This is how I write,
Take pen in my hand
Black Mont Blanc
Open small hardcover
White paged 
Museum sketch book.
Don’t think much
Words come as ink flows.
Outside,
Clear night sky
Full...

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Categories: hardcover, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vigilante
This is based on a truly sad story from the late 1930s - 


Late one August afternoon - the year was nineteen ten - a...

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Categories: hardcover, violence,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things