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Best Ideal Poems

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


Would You
Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ideal, love, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Well-Appointed Cowpoke
A well-appointed cowpoke, of whom there are still a few,
Wanted to be properly clad for his first job interview.
So, to impress his potential and somewhat...

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Categories: ideal, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Little Fir Tree's First Xmas
The little fir tree was feeling extremely sad
it was tiny compared to its mum and its dad
When people saw the tree they just walked away
and...

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Categories: ideal, child, christmas, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Chocolate-Collaboration
To chocolate I pay my respects
Some folks say its better than sex
whether milk dark or white
Ev’ry bar I must bite
or I'll get a lack of...

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Categories: ideal, candy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member How Do I Love Thee Contest - Response
Here is the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth...

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Categories: ideal, love,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member Love Truth
Why do you love me...
she asks with purple pause on her breath
and lips anxious for that all consuming kiss of truth...

I love you because my...

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Categories: ideal, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Stand By Me
Whether I'm right, whether I'm wrong,
You stand by me, so easy to find,
like the repeating words of a song,
always right here on my mind.

Daylight shines...

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Categories: ideal, best friend, care, friend,
Form: Quatrain
When Love Was Innocent
Sing for me the sweetest song 
of love when life was still so young.
Those tender times and days devoid 
of cares and wants troubling the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ideal, innocence, love, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 'a Thousand Steps'
A thousand steps in between 
who I was and who I am now 
do I wonder about the detours? 
do I wish I took the...

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Categories: ideal, introspection, lifejourney, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ramayana
Ramayana, a Hindu epic, 
written by saint Valmiki, in Sanskrit
one of the two largest ancient epics,
the first ever poem ever created
many many centuries ago.
It ...

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Categories: ideal, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jukebox Gigolo
Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a...

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Categories: ideal, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Bedlam Blues
Cain killed Abel on a Monday night 
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?”...

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Categories: ideal, allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member - Beauty of Night -
I adore the overwhelming color of the northern lights
                ...

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Categories: ideal, beauty, color, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Until a New Dawn
Returning from the date, he hides impressions 
into the nooks and crannies of his mind
like a fed dog hides bones and then can’t find.
Don’t, filthy...

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Categories: ideal, death, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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Categories: ideal, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick

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