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Best High Strung Poems

Below are the all-time best High Strung poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of high strung poems written by PoetrySoup members


You'Re Worthy of Love
You're worthy of love

I see the scars, you're hiding deep within
they're not visible, upon your skin
you don't even know, how you could begin
to feel worthy...

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Categories: high strung, abuse, addiction, child abuse,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Mr Bungo
Zany and free spirited, Mr. Bungo is a one man show
Yodeling any song you like, doing the "old soft shoe"
Xenial to one and all, he...

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Categories: high strung, children, fun, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betty White Rip
*Image of Betty White by Pinterest.



Betty White RIP



Alas!
She Passed,

Betty,
Firstly,

Then White,
Finite,

Icon,
Like On,

TV,
Marquee,

AM,
FM,

Invest,
Her Best,

Female,
Prevail,

Guinness,
Booked As,

Premiere,
Career,

Shadows,
Gameshows,

Mary,
Murray,

Ted And,
Sue Ann,

High-Strung,
Sharp-Tongue,

Antics,
Frantics,

Leaven,
Seven,

Golden,
Stolen,

Bea, Rue,
Stan Too,

Miles And,
Nylund,

Fourth Gal,
Estelle,

Neighbor,
Failure,

Drop Dead,
She Did,

Gun Shot,
In Shock,

Hearts Race,
Shot Vase,

Herring,
War...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high strung, appreciation, beautiful, career, celebrity,
Form: Footle
Premium Member A Personal Attack
Now if I shoot at you with live ammo that's personal,
Words just don't hack it, most thoughts too bizarre
To attribute to anything short of dementia,
With...

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Categories: high strung, emotions, humor, irony, life,
Form: Rhyme
Woman
The mechanical components, the valve that pumps my heart 
The reactive nerve endings that serve a sensory stimulus 
The tear ducts that latently only lend...

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Categories: high strung, beautiful, gender, identity, woman,
Form: Light Verse



The Wolf
Your agouti mix with your silver sleek shine,
Your genus “canis lupus” known throughout time.

You hunt in packs deep in the woods,
So stealthy and confident just...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high strung, animal, fear, journey, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Magic Kisses and Valentine Wishes
Magnificent and marvelous is how I feel.
A holiday I enjoy the most is almost here.
Gift giving to your highly favored one.
Icebergs will break during wintertime.
Cakes...

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Categories: high strung, valentines day,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Don Quichotte
To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : A Don Quichotte

         (Poem written in March 1861...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high strung, fantasy, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Truth
I'm a high strung girl
From two different worlds
Fiery and passionate
That's my Cuban one
Sassy and mischievous 
The Bahamian sun
Guys call me opinionated
But I'm just liberated!
I'm a...

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Categories: high strung, me, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Catch That Ghazal
Please catch me a Ghazal
And don't even ask me why
It's something I've just wanted
someday before I die

More docile than a lion
More graceful than a giraffe...

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Categories: high strung, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lilly's Teddy Bear Picnic
Lilly wanted a teddy bear, so her Mom FunkunDilly gave her one.
Lilly kept telling me how she loved it, and was having so much fun.
Though...

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Categories: high strung, adventure, fantasy, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
To Jim
Up and down we go.
A depressive state but you seem to love the verbal flow.
You laugh and say my ornateness makes me rhyme.
I will leave...

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Categories: high strung, anger, angst, appreciation, body,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Who Is Your Neighbor
My neighbor is an older man so ghastly and thin
with his creepy demeanor and a toothless grin

On pins and needles to the mail box I...

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Categories: high strung, confusion, fear, scary,
Form: Couplet
Never Grow Up
I have bent and I’ve swayed
And swung back and forth too
Then I went and I played
Did it all with my crew
Take time to have fun
So...

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Categories: high strung, childhood, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zoe Rules
Cats and dogs are notorious for not getting along

You've heard the term, “fighting like cats and dogs”

Well our gorgeous female golden retriever, Annie

And our tomcat...

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Categories: high strung, animal,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs