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Best Impressing Poems

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


Premium Member Peeve, Personal
oh. dear. gawd.

another patently
meaningless
crush of stanzas, jam-packed with
adjectives and color words
straight from Roget's,
strung together in
strands of misuse and
improper context -
syntax-scraping adverbs and
prepositions dangled
at inhuman angles,
rushing...

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Categories: impressing, angst, conflict, fun, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Spontaneity
Even as a child, how I used to enjoy
A simple stroll through the woods 
When innocent instincts ruled my heart
And ran after every call from...

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Categories: impressing, beauty, childhood, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perfect Story
The Perfect Story!!

.
ingredients.... How to write the perfect story?

 

Tonight I close my eyes, enter the realm in another form

Dig deep inside to find the...

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Categories: impressing, addiction, adventure, beautiful, passion,
Form: Light Verse
I Came Across a Jumpher
I came across a Jumpher
A jumphin’ up at me.
It wasn’t very springy
As far as i could see.

It tried to do someothersault,
Impressing like a tree,
But landed...

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Categories: impressing, hilarious, humorous, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting
On a day where
    the rain
  attacks the windshield
only to be brushed away
    like an ill-timed rebuke,
yet caresses...

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Categories: impressing, lovelife, longing, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love Off-Sprung
futures cavort below the horizon
  an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
  tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
  half...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impressing, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
Love In a Bowl
I missed the meals mama used to cook 
Her recipes were not in the cookery book 
Mama was just more of a kitchen queen 
She's...

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Categories: impressing, care, celebration, love, missing
Form: Quatrain
Expectations
Expectations

Triumphant note of a magnolia's pearly white
Wakens the sleeping ground,
Beautiful ballerina
Impressing all around.
Herself the spotlight.
Brave fragile snowdrops light the woods' darkness,

Fluting, keen, white and green
Like...

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Categories: impressing, uplifting,
Form: Italian Sonnet
A Pinch of Grinch
Yikes, all I feel is attitude with zero Christmas mood.
Blessed am I for Jesus’ birth and sacrificial rood,
but Santa and his deer had best just...

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Categories: impressing, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Different Kind of Courage
Sam took to the stage, limping with a leg brace 
And more than a mere trace of fear on his face 
The humorous speech competition...

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Categories: impressing, courage, fear,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Just Being Sarcastic, I Meant To Say All You Lousy Poets Who Rape Poetry
WAS THAT A HUMMINGBIRD I HEARD HUMMING?

Have you ever watched a hummingbird hover?
Well he does that to impress his lover
There are many ways to impress...

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Categories: impressing, caregiving,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dolphins

Dolphins

Watch the aquatic mammals reigning warm waters
Riding ocean waves zestfully flexing playful behavior
Jumping high in air performing acrobatic maneuvers
Synchronizing movements impressing fond watchers.

Be dazzled by...

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Categories: impressing, animal, sea,
Form: Verse
The Time Is Now
All of our righteousness are as filthy rags 
I do believe that's what I read 
We all fall short of the glory of God 
I...

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Categories: impressing, christian, faith, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
You Missed Me
At the glassy gate, I wait for you
adding cherry between breaths
adding robes to your soft name
ushering the syllables through my warm mouth
echoing like the sight...

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Categories: impressing, love, sad, baby, baby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Fling

"Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each...

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Categories: impressing, appreciation, beautiful, nature, seasons,
Form: Couplet

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