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Best Immediate Poems

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


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: immediate, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: immediate, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: immediate, weather,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Refugee
Running from an economy full of hate
hunger will place him behind bars unless he relocates
war and crisis lingering with the hope to end soon
have pocketed...

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Categories: immediate, adventure, africa, death, depression,
Form: Couplet
My Tree
MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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Categories: immediate, nature, tree,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member When You Say My Name
You wrap my name
In syllables of love
Passion tinged sound units
Caressed by the beauty of your voice
you leave me no choice
but to yield....

breathed into my ear
you...

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Categories: immediate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Orchestrated By God
Abed this angelic night bound by quiescent beauty,
yearned thoughts of whence the birth
of our yester-years proclaiming
loves first scene waltzes
through thy interior
monologue. In great
measure is our
immediate
kiss...

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Categories: immediate, first love, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: immediate, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: immediate, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Her
I always liked the way she played with her hair....
across from the vast expanse of the bed,
legs up, with her back against the wall,
I saw...

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Categories: immediate, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Martians Land In the Us and Regret Saying 'Take Me To Your Leader'
When Martians landed from outer space
They requested to meet a world leader
So Donald arrived with a smirk on his face
But soon turned green with an...

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Categories: immediate, america, humorous, silly, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Good Days of Innocence
We were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes, 
there had been wars throughout...

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Categories: immediate, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perpetual Poems
A poem is never merely still born,
It has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own
Independent,well able to stand alone;
On...

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Categories: immediate, on writing and words
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member O' the Many Things Brighter Stars Have Seen
O' The Many Things Brighter Stars Have Seen

O' the many things brighter stars have seen
 through the long ages of our hopes and regrets
 lives,...

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Categories: immediate, art, beauty, heaven, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: immediate, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete

Book: Shattered Sighs