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Best Harness Poems

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


Premium Member Shadow
It 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: harness, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Across the Wide
There are cities of sonnets to map
Quests of pantoums and villanelles 
To harness, and ride
Across the wide
Tangled grassland of gratuity
Unwritten, unruled
Anarchy of expression
Empty lines can...

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Categories: harness, appreciation, poems, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cry For Wind
Fly so fast, cry for wind
Carry me between your wings
Me, me, tiny, olive skinned
Blood of beggars, blood of kings

Lost forever, never found
Roar your cry across...

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Categories: harness, analogy, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Merry Go Round of Earth
One half is submerged in light,
the other in darkness.
Half says goodnight and the other
tugs the harness.

Kids climb backyard trees tinged
with school bus yellow.
As lovers play...

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Categories: harness, analogy, appreciation, beauty, bible,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Dog On the Beach
I watched a dog fight back the sea
to chase a ball thrown on the surf
it sensed no danger unlike me
when I chased young dreams on...

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Categories: harness, allegory, beach, dog, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pocketful of Hardened Suns
When I think of what to write
often the ocean comes to mind
Endless sea of pretty blue
and stretched out horizon lines,
impossibly flat

Yet when I actually arrive
it...

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Categories: harness, appreciation, beach, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your feelings clings 
To the fabric of my dreams
It never leaves….it lingers
Lingers
Permeating everything
The scent of your feelings
Envelopes me

The fragrance of gardenia
When you...

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Categories: harness, flower, for her, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dionysus, Apollo - Balance Me
Dionysian passion fills my soul 
With a stream of life, that knows no restraint, 
Your frantic current defies all control-
Awakens the devil within the saint.

Injected...

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Categories: harness, appreciation, art, crazy, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New York Street Horse
Plunked down in chaos
from a gentler time,
blinkered from the traffic
he pulls the coach along.
Patient, in his harness bond
he tugs at hearts, with pathos-
as to his...

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Categories: harness, animal, courage, dedication, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
All About Eve
Woo the woman
Love the lady
Mellow the maiden
Manage the maid
Garnish the girl
Dazzle the damsel
Bar the bimbo
Latch the lass
Silence the siren
Moor the mermaid
Net the nymph
Madden the madam
Tame...

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Categories: harness, eve, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scent of Your Feelings
The scent of your feelings clings 
To the fabric of my dreams
It never leaves….it lingers
Lingers
Permeating everything
The scent of your feelings
Envelopes me

The fragrance of gardenia
When you...

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Categories: harness, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa the Grinch and the FBI
'Twas the night before Christmas and it was heavily snowing
The windows in the house rattled with the wind that was blowing
Santa looked out through the...

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Categories: harness, america, christmas, snow, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member March Mirth
SEBASTIAN BECK 

The trapeze artist Sebastian Beck
His safety harness he forgot to check 
Didn't notice it had snapped 
Below all the crowd clapped 
But in...

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Categories: harness, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Like a Baby's Birth
Writing a poem is like giving birth to a baby.
With the copulation of fancy and thought,
Comes the moment of conception!
 
It swims into you as...

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Categories: harness, angst, birth, child, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Devoutly Walk In True Grace With the Lord
Devoutly walk in true grace with the Lord,
Thy will never witness fall of darkness.
Fulfillment of love lull a rich reward
Devoutly walk in true grace with...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harness, inspiration,
Form: Triolet

Book: Shattered Sighs