Get Your Premium Membership

Best Haynes Poems

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


Ellsworth Wallace Haynes
This poem has been removed for publishing on Amazon in WW II in Poetry: Veterans Stories in Poetry, including my late father's who was a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, courage, death, hero, history,
Form: Quatrain



~ (~) ~ (Four Parts-Part #3) Dedicated In Love To My Little Sister ~ Tina Marie Haynes ~ (~) ~
My Sister when I was about 8 1/2, I am 38 now, passed away but before she did, she told 
everyone this... "I am going...

Read more of this work...
© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haynes, inspirationallife, sister, crazy, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
~ (~) ~ (Four Part-Part#4) Dedicated To My Little Sister ~ Tina Marie Haynes ~ (~) ~
It has been many years and I have had many struggles, and though I was sad when my Sister 
passed... because I love her, and...

Read more of this work...
© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haynes, inspirationalcare, care, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
~ (~) ~ (Four Part-S-Part #2) Dedicated In Love To My Little Sister ~ Tina Marie Haynes ~ (~) ~
She reminded me of my Sister Tina... She had been adopted by a Christian Minister and her 
family, as we all eventually were, each separately...

Read more of this work...
© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haynes, inspirationallife, sister, time, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
~ (~) ~ (Four Parts-Part #1) Dedicated In Love To My Little Sister ~ Tina Marie Haynes ~ (~) ~
I was born into a family that had their own struggle, and struggled through my early years and 
the majority, of my adulthood... My mom,...

Read more of this work...
© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haynes, inspirationalme, family, family, me,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Long Long Ago Revised
Long Long Ago*
(revised)

“Tell me the tales
 that to me were so dear
long, long ago,
 long long ago.”

My fingers played 
in simplified rendition,
prescient I suppose
of the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, remember,
Form: Free verse
Missing You, Aunt Jean
You meant so much to all of us.
You were so special and that's no lie.
You brightened up the darkest and cloudiest sky.
Not a second passes...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, loss, miss you, love,
Form: Rhyme
If You Only Knew
If you only knew the love I have for you ,
than your know why I really call you my 
boo. 

My love for you have...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, love
Form: I do not know?
The Art of Storytelling Part 2
Things are all slow motion like I'm Neo in the grid, 
just layin here and thinkin back to when I was a kid,

with plasma gushin...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, urbanmom, mom, time, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
A Missing Piece of Life
What happen with going to church to 
praise & pray?

stay for afternoon services to seek what 
the pastor have to say. 

Have dinner as a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, life, love, love,
Form: ABC
Boarding the Middle Passage
Suntanned fields tower along your breast.
Rusty gripping whips rip ripened veins.
Dancing black silhouette, shipped to the west,
In a barbed necklace of embroidered chains.

Singing in patois,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, black african american, depression,
Form: Rondeau
Hold Strong
I wake to a beautiful day 
As the sun shine in a very brightly way
I fall to my knees so I can pray 
Help me...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, spiritual, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Arthur Sly
Let it be known that Arthur Sly
Was caught red handed and sentenced to die

For he trespassed and stole fine things
Like loaves of bread, diamonds, and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, adventure, imagination,
Form: Ballad
Classic T V
Classic T V 

William Tell, Robin Hood,
Ena Sharples in the snug,
Gibbs SR whiter teeth,
Billy Bunter getting grief,
Hawkeye, Ivanhoe,
Twelve-inch screen full of snow.

Range rider, Wagon Train,
Dragnet,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Jeni and Her Army Trigger Warning Abuse
This is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As...

Read more of this work...
Categories: haynes, abuse, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs