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Best Highlight Poems

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


Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: highlight, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Colours of Poetry
Art is abstract
Art thrives with colours
Colours brighten faded coral
Colours highlight black
Black skies with silver stars
Black opal gemstones
Gemstones like amethyst
Gemstones of vivid ruby
Ruby roses and crimson...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, poetry,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: highlight, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Sun In - Sun Out
Extreme Sunset


Brimstones past the clouds 
Highlight against the ocean line
Beautiful sunset, warm texture
Warning, the rooster's asleep!

Glorious yellow and orange mixture 
My source of great inspiration
Unmatch...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, beautiful, beauty, celebration, nature,
Form: Verse
Shine Forth His Light
Shine forth His light, dispel the night!
Spread love that's true, let hope glow bright,
May your words be seasoned with grace!
Looking up to Christ, run your...

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Categories: highlight, god, light,
Form: Rondeau



Premium Member Treasure In the Mind
I saw your blue eyes, so gentle and kind
Some things we see, leave imprints in memory
Like a treasure, forever, in your mind

A gentle touch, lasts...

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Categories: highlight, appreciation, life, memory,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Get Ready
As dawn calls subtle sun to rise, 
twilight cloaks clouds in charcoal hue.
Robins arrive with their trill cries.

Smoke puffs loom as the last star dies.
Moon hides...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: highlight, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breast Cancer Awareness
This is a short piece for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I lost a close friend very talented, very young to breast cancer. I also lost...

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Categories: highlight, cancer,
Form: Narrative
Lady In Blue
Moonbeams beckon on my window tonight
Dragging me out of this comfort to view
Delicate splendor impassioned so bright
Refulgent waves from this lady in blue

Dazzling in beauty,...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, beauty, blue,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Poems Come To Life When Tired Tongues Are Silent
Slave to wayward thoughts,
unwritten poems return to haunt.
Tempest of tragedy arrives as a harbinger,
wrecking fences that divide sleeping paths. 

There is no one to show...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, destiny, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Erin Adventure
It was an autumn day, fresh and crisp,
with a slight breeze blowing that made 
our cheeks rosy.  My Aunt Trix and I were
on the...

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Categories: highlight, adventure, autumn, ireland, travel,
Form: Haibun
Unnoticed
The world wants a torch
but I only wished to be a candlelight.
It gives dim light but will never scorch
Though it will never be a highlight
but...

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Categories: highlight, analogy, society,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Time To Ponder This World and So Much More
Time To Ponder This World And So Much More

Within dreams that this soul truly adores
Where mountain ridges highlight bright sun's glow
Green valleys below, lakes with...

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Categories: highlight, appreciation, creation, deep, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Without You

In her absence, her reflection is my poetry.
Quill could ink a million verses about her perfection.
Her heart's a gem not found in any rare jewellery.

Legacy...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlight, absence, love, romantic love,
Form: Villanelle

Book: Reflection on the Important Things