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Best Hurried Poems

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


Premium Member Without Lament
I have no sorrow, for sorrow is small,
And can't be held guilty for choices made.
Reflections are scrawled on my mind's dark wall,
And will leave stains...

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Categories: hurried, introspection,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: hurried, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: hurried, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Who Is Cutting Down the Trees In the Rain Forests
the lullaby of butterflies hums
in the early morning air.

a rounded light of gold 
above the purple clouds 
spots a blue filtered peak.

trees unite as one...

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Categories: hurried, nature, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Lady On the Church Steps
I had seen her before in the spring and summer
The homeless lady sitting on the church steps
She would ask for help from people going into...

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Categories: hurried, appreciation, christmas, december, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member She Cannot Be Rushed
I stare at dusk-tinged mountains to the east,
anticipating joyously the rise
of an old friend not pressured in the least
 to meet my frantic schedule, I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurried, moon, nature,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads came a bobbing in frantic relays.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The Harvester’s coming to furrow the...

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Categories: hurried, angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And So I Wrote a Poem
One day when I was walking 
inside a wood alone,
admiring the autumn trees,
I found a big flat stone.
It beckoned me to sit awhile -
 ...

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Categories: hurried, write,
Form: Rhyme
Hogwash
Twas a fine October morning,
one September, last July!
The moon lay thick upon the ground,
the mud shone in the sky!

The flowers sang so sweetly,
the birds were...

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Categories: hurried, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Indecision
Enticed
          by feminine allure
          my resistance 
...

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Categories: hurried, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spark Inside Me Flared
I saw her in the sky this morn
  ghostly pale and forlorn
She couldn't even wink at me
  display her craters or her seas

I...

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Categories: hurried, how i feel, moon,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Come, Winter
Come, winter, once again,
the way you came to me when I was young,
and with a handsome boy as we took a little stroll
along a country...

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Categories: hurried, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Harmony of Dusk
The mellow western sky darkened, 
The sea was calm that night,
Yachts tacking across the bay
Towards their appointed piers.
Luminous moon rays shimmer 
Over wavelets that bathed
The...

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Categories: hurried, boat, kiss, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Peach Tree
They would ripen all at once
under a hot sun and hang
in a sugary glut only for a day 
or two before starting to spoil. 
I...

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Categories: hurried, child, god, nostalgia, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quick Encounters
Some people are just uncomfortable
She is putting on a smile
under her mask
I don’t know if it’s her
or it’s me
She’s nice, a little hurried
Even her son’s...

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Categories: hurried, people,
Form: Free verse

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