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Best Hays Poems

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


Premium Member Wen Hairy Met Tarry
(Revised with new homophone added in. Thanks for the catch, Becca!)

*Wants upon **uh thyme inn uh would, uh vary gneiss prints named Hairy
met inn the...

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Categories: hays, word play,
Form: Couplet



My Daughter's Smile
My Daughter's Smile
By Linda Hays-Gibbs 

There is a light, a light so sweet, comes from a smile beaming out from deep-within a soul, of infinite...

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Categories: hays, children, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Ballad
Brick By Bloody Brick
"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
—George Orwell

A dozen of chickens and a number of horses, a cat and a...

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Categories: hays, animal, discrimination, horse, proposal,
Form: Narrative
Funny Man
Funny Man!
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
Oh funny man you touch the hardest heart
With messages to crumble and start
A snickering or flickering to spark 
A laugh a full...

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Categories: hays, death, depression, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Patina of An Old Cowboy
His skin like the patina of worn out leather,
burnt and cracked from many hours in the sun.
Across the wide plains in the hot Texas weather,
he...

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Categories: hays, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme



Nowhere To Run
"Nowhere to Run"
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
They run to us for help
They are out of their depth
Lost jobs, lost homes, lost safety and no food to eat
Nowhere...

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Categories: hays, abuse, betrayal, death, discrimination,
Form: Ballad
The Queen of the Mojave Desert
The old man lived out by the desert, selling postcards and gasoline,
He sold road-maps and Navajo silver, and True West magazine.

And under his Gabby Hays...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hays, son, song-lyricold, sweet, old,
Form: Ballad
Let Get Lost
For real freedom,
solace, and peace
free of cost,
Come to go there and
let get lost,

For cheerfulness,
beauty of nature and
a nymph host,
Browse at all, here
we go and let...

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Categories: hays, mystery, nature, paradise, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Clouds Over Your Head
clouds as fluffy as the whistling bliss
encircling in the sky, eyes fonder and kiss

abaft the hidden pillows of lace
brightness over hays above Thy grace...

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Categories: hays, creation,
Form: Couplet
Bowl of Sorrow
Eating bowls of dying meat
                    ...

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© Larry Hays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hays, dark, death, dog, evil,
Form: Ballade
Where Did My Freedoms Go
Where Did My Freedoms Go?

By Linda Hays-Gibbs

Where did my freedom go?
It was here not long ago.
I was sure for all those that fought and died,
Someone...

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Categories: hays, abuse, america, angel, anti
Form: Ballad
Ebola
Ebola
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
A horrible deathly disease has spread 
With terrible swiftness and silent dread
Our people with frantic astonishment seek
Why does our government seem so weak
Not...

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Categories: hays, africa, body, caregiving, death,
Form: Ballad
Moments and Memories
Do not cry over the past, it has gone;
Forge ahead, the deed has been done.
Worry not over the future, God holds it;
let not present pains...

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Categories: hays, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Goodbye
Goodbye
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
I saw you slowly walk away
My heart exploding in my throat
I couldn't think of what to say
huddled deep inside my 
comfort coat of...

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Categories: hays, abortion, absence, baby, betrayal,
Form: Ballad
Angel's Wings
Angels Wings
By Linda Hays-Gibbs

I just had the most horrible 
feeling something is wrong
It woke me up with my heart 
drumming a drumbeat song
loudly in my...

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Categories: hays, angel, bible, forgiveness, inspiration,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs