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Best Humble Poems

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


Poetry Soap
It’s almost time and I must run
to watch/read Poetry Soap for fun.
It comes on every day at this time
and I don’t want to miss a...

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Categories: humble, abuse, conflict, jealousy, love,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: humble, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: humble, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: humble, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: humble, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Whisper Soft Into the Night
Distant prayers echo through a lilac sky
light flickers brilliantly in angelic eyes
a yellow crocheted blanket falls to the floor
and a growing heart winks inside.

Kindness breeds...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humble, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magic Beans
Our first awareness
      falling through time
      through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation 
 ...

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Categories: humble, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humble, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Miracle
Where the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where...

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Categories: humble, childhood, life,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member O April
O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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Categories: humble, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humble, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: humble, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
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: humble, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: humble, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Acquiesce To Friendship
Your sensuous eyes render me a fool.
How clumsy I become within your mien.
I stutter, stumble trying to keep cool
While all the time envisioning a scene
Of...

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Categories: humble, dream, friendship love, longing,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs