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Best Hum Poems

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


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: hum, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Best Poem Ever
~The best poem ever~

Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....

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Categories: hum, death, words, heart, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Evening Song
Conducted by the Hands that gave them voice
Sweet songs of evening soothe my weary soul.
Oh, how I love to hear the birds rejoice
As frogs and...

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Categories: hum, god, inspirational, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Hallelujah - From the Mouth of Babes - With Silent One
The Guardian
		Melodic lullabies echo	
		As heart strings strum secret chords
		As transcendental images appear
		Stargazers are lost for words
		Kaleidoscopic Illuminations
		Paint the sky in optimistic light
		Hope descends in serene...

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Categories: hum, anti bullying, courage, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: hum, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Northern Slaves
In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...

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Categories: hum, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: hum, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
In Lieu of the Rodeo
Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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Categories: humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hum, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: hum, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: hum, mental illness,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Train - POTD
 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...

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Categories: hum, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tattered Pages
In the recollections of my journey thus far, the tattered pages of my life flutter
in my mind.  Like snapshots of times and places in...

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Categories: hum, life, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: hum, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi

Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hum, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs