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Best Highly Poems

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


Premium Member The Best Paths Move Forward
The best paths move forward.
Don't waste your time looking back.
The things you've said, the things you've done,
Can never be brought back.

Don't waste the little time...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highly, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme



On Poetry Soup
 A first day on Soup is filled with much awe
The wonderful poems will make you smile
Easy is it to fall for all
Some enabled my...

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Categories: highly, friend, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: highly, angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
How About This For Veterans Day
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highly, patriotic,
Form: Couplet
The Enmity
The Enmity
Seeking justice is the only way you knew how to protect us.
As a juvenile delinquent I was too young to recognize it.
I am always...

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Categories: highly, feelings, history, identity, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



A Debutante's Ball To Remember
A Debutante’s Ball to Remember

In the autumn of my life, oft have I recalled that superb summer night,
when I finally experienced my long-awaited heart’s delight.
Family...

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Categories: highly, celebration, dance, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: highly, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse
Maniac President's Song
(A parody of the Modern Major-General's Song from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan.)

I am the very model of a very stable genius.
Compared...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highly, funny, humor, humorous, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highly, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Youth and Nature, Were a True Blast, In Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast
In collaboration with Robert Lindley

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond,...

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Categories: highly, creation, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: highly, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Secretly Obsessed
Obsessed with the thought of you
wondering if it's only me or
if you sometimes remember the sweet things you've said
and if you meant them how I...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highly, adventure, confusion, dream, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lindamarie the Sweetheartof P S
~ Linda-Marie The Sweetheart of P. S. ~

When it comes to a friendly hi!
One of the best poetry, hearts we can't deny!

Our Sweetheart Linda Marie
No...

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Categories: highly, addiction, beach, beautiful, care,
Form: Couplet
A Cyclical Life
Here in the heavy depths of insolent woes,
We gesture and talk and waste our time,
Staking claim to each minute of our earthly life,
Running the hours...

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Categories: highly, life, lovewords, metaphor, beauty,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member The Jester
THE JESTER

Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...

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Categories: highly, history,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs