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Best Held Responsible Poems

Below are the all-time best Held Responsible poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of held responsible poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: held responsible, mental illness,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Affection In Motion
Its universe drapes time in buoyancy 
Where endless space binds law of attraction
Atoms merging, clasped by human light
An energy wheeling freely, unseen;
‘Til  moonlight climbs...

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Categories: held responsible, mystery, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Vision of a World Turned Upside Down
A silver shawl hangs heavy over the mountain 
sky grey clouds shooting gun barrel smoke hiding sunlight 

Looking out towards the ocean dreaming in wild...

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Categories: held responsible, blessing, hope, love, love
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dear Dad
Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in...

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Categories: held responsible, death, forgiveness, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Daily Scriptures
By Dana Redricks 

"For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed...

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Categories: held responsible, christian, destiny, devotion, faith,
Form: Pastoral



Is Justice Blind
Is Justice blind?
Or
Has the color of a Browned skinned people been so frequently splashed, 
that it spills into her eyes as it blood soaks her...

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Categories: held responsible, abuse, anger, black african
Form: Rhyme
Rabindranath Tagore Translations Ii
Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain...

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Categories: held responsible, dark, heart, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 9
Chapter 9: Portaging Older Dams

Eleven Minnesota dams we had to portage
All without clear use for folks today
But as the Mississippi is a ‘navigable’ river.
Owners are...

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Categories: held responsible, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Counting the Seconds
i sit lonely. the crowded restaurant is thick with sound. i pick away at it moving back into the stagnant silence of my own comfort....

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Categories: held responsible, introspection,
Form: Prose
350 Degrees
Concerned Christian environmentalists truthfully believe God created the life forms inside the oceans, lakes and seas.  He left mankind a legacy,  he was...

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Categories: held responsible, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Mistakes and Repercussions
I've accepted the repercussions, 
From my choices to my actions.
Forgiving myself and moving on,
Replaced my pain with satisfaction.

The biggest mistake that I had made,
Was putting...

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Categories: held responsible, absence, abuse, boyfriend, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Psychoanalyst
Plant the seeds you wish to reap.
I have planted my seed in the soil of my people.
I have no home, no earthly land,
I have no...

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Categories: held responsible, america, analogy, confusion, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Some Unholy War
Each holy man there is, is convinced he's better than the next,
as his right hand tightly clasps prayer beads, whilst he judges others with his...

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Categories: held responsible, allah, bible, humanity, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Disclaimer
I can not be held responsible
for what happens with the company's
people start 
four out of five small company's fail

granted I believe that creating work
for others...

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Categories: held responsible, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Full of Beans
"The scientific law of causality states every effect
(such as a fart)
has a cause
(such as beans for supper)."
-- beyond all Rational doubt
a deep Truth
to digest full

*...

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Categories: held responsible, pain,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs