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Best Helm Poems

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


Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: helm, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silent pain behind art
The art was most masterful on the dark canvas,
portraying an artist's mind when feeling anxious.
His palette compiled of pastels in shades of grey,
weaved brushstrokes in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helm, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To My Dearest Children - Potd
Dear Children,

I can only give you a deep love that lasts
The span of my lifetime, nothing less.
On a quotidian basis, you will feel 
The warmth...

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Categories: helm, encouraging, meaningful, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: helm, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Devil's Tide
I looked up at a silver moon 
Peering through a cloud of misty gloom 
As we sailed across the Atlantic Sea 
That fateful night in...

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Categories: helm, adventure, angel, june, life,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member The Ship In a Bottle - POTD
POTD 6 Mar 2020

Oh, where are those waves
of bygone days
that caressed and rocked
on hearing you cry?
‘Sleep little ship’ I'd murmur low
while ocean crooned her soft...

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Categories: helm, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: helm, loss, love, ocean,
Form: Quatern
Star Trek and Captain Kirk's Final Frontier
Kirk: ‘Lt. Uhura, come to my quarters at 1800 hours’
Uhura: ‘Yes captain, might I ask what’s up?’
Kirk: ‘Nothing now but something WILL be at 1800...

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Categories: helm, parody, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Too Square For Two
you ... are the paramour of right angles
the square of a square - complete, quite aware
how two must adore you
for all it sees is itself,...

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Categories: helm, appreciation, math,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Accolade
Fighting mid the strong and bold,
His eye and blade were keen;
Marching like a thund'ring storm
On foes of Faith, his queen.

Now returned in victory
Upon his mighty...

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Categories: helm, christian, faith, love, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Raven Speak Not To Me, For a Plague Flees Thy Lips
Raven Speak Not To Me, For A Plague Flees Thy Lips

Sadness came, in clumps of ripping hard, smashing waves
as if morbid thoughts could such sorrows...

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Categories: helm, dark, evil, fantasy, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Cinnamon Leaves of Autumn
Autumn teases the last cinnamon leaves
clinging to branches with amber fingers.
Seasonal change awakens Nature's thieves,
a wafting breeze that doggedly lingers,
stripping trees bare; a scene that...

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Categories: helm, autumn, beauty,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Healers of the Realm
Dancing dragons amongst the twilight realm
Wounded warriors appear who stand at the helm
Their spirit attracts the bringers of the dawn
As the sparrows rejoice with merriment...

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Categories: helm, inspirational, magic, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Psalms At Sea
I sing praises to you under moon's watchful eye
As the ocean waves calm above from the deep
and You transform gusty winds into soft breezes.
With your...

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Categories: helm, angel, boat, devotion, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oasis
Perfect makings of a daydream
Dancing carefree on a sunbeam
A deep breath and my eyes close
The air inviting as water flows
Seeping in serenity to the core
Despite...

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Categories: helm, beautiful, inspirational, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme

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