Get Your Premium Membership

Best Highlighting Poems

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


Premium Member Becoming Colors POTD
I was a celebrated, professional psychic, offering glimpses of rosy future;
And helping people work through problems, like pink moon, come sooner.

I had learnt to talk...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, beautiful, color, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet



Since First I Saw You
Since first I saw you, it was your eyes,
mesmerizing, your gaze transporting
me to a realm, not of fantasy, real,
where young men go when cupid’s
arrow takes...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, beautiful, beauty, brother, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Honoring a Poet-Collaboration
Tania Kitchin deserves to be honored for her courage. If you would like to honor her, send me your thoughts in couplet form. Thanks.

I have...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, poetess, thank you,
Form: Couplet
Just Come Closer
Come closer, just a little closer
break down the barriers and rise 
over the blindness where one can see
your bits of beauty silently eluding me

Shade the...

Read more of this work...
© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlighting, courage, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Paintbrush
Sunlight breaks through the trees
Shining against the limbs and leaves
Highlighting the soft hues of emerald
Blended into the golden orange of autumn
Colors that put me at...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, blessing, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Tall Ships Burn
Burnished gold, aged bronze patinaed by the firelight
singed by sullen Sol, not stayed by Poseidon's hand;
aflame, aflame, tall ships burn, see their masts ignite.

Impenitent, sky...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, art,
Form: Villanelle
Peak District United Kingdom
Fingers of light pierced the clouds caressing the moors
with life giving warmth, purples, browns and greens of
heathers mingled, blended, in a union of beauty. Yellow
of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, inspirational
Form: Prose Poetry
Ulan At Sinag Ng Araw: Pagmumuni Ng Isang Tulirong Isip
my head touches the pillow
as gentle rain lulls me 
and i just want to   s
        ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, angst, feelings, introspection, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Maydays Day
I turn to my girl highlighting Mayday is near
A day of spectacle that the whole village views
There's Jesters of folly and Knights without fear
Witnessing lances...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, beauty, class, fear, history,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Monet's Water Lilies
Floating fluttering fleurs
are jewels in fuchsia and magenta
transmuting into taffy hue
with the kiss of dappled sunlight~
Like her cheeks that blush in pink
with his wondering wink......

Read more of this work...
© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highlighting, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Complacency
Such beauty, only nature could compare
How fair her face, when first she graced my sight
Brown eyes so kind, highlighting flaxen hair
A smile so bright, one...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, lost love, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Reality's Banned
Cotton candy pinks and marshmallow whites
flaunt iridescent sheens buffed by the sun.
And colored clouds, lined with mother-of-pearl,
are hung in the sky like a prize fairly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, beautiful, color, imagery, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Stick Together People
stick together      people
the elites 
are gleaning power
from the seeds of misery garden

they're dividers of the masses
nothing more-nothing less

they smother smiles...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World of Love
In the wine-colored dark of the night, as we stroll 
in the dim-lit gardens of our honeymoon hotel,
we listen to the orchestra, as violins vibrate,
highlighting...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Staring Into the Abyss
Staring into the abyss of crises’ appearance
I’m stricken with panic, disclosing my unbelief and ignorance…
Yet with God’s radiance, I can behold His gracious sustenance
Indeed assuring...

Read more of this work...
Categories: highlighting, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs