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Best Impressionable Poems

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


Impressionable Scars
I know I am privileged 
when I see water in your eyes
One smell, one scene, one sound
- a flashback,
which only you can see

Only you can...

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Categories: impressionable, life, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mona Lisa's Paramour
A period of youthful vim ferments
as coruscating golden flecks in eyes 
that mesmerise and tantalise, give rise
to secrets in my breast to stir, foment.
The xanthous...

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Categories: impressionable, art, love, valentines day,
Form: Sonnet
A Mother's Ears
I sometimes feel a unique vibration within
my own ears. My baby’s crying, calling from beneath his quilted,
baby-blues. His sobs rustle the warm sheath of home....

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Categories: impressionable, baby, dream, mother, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Young Minds
young impressionable minds today
fearless leaders of tomorrow
years in between will pass
will slip away in a flash
under our tutelage
our guidance
our encouragement
our influence
our illusion of dominance
that for...

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Categories: impressionable, caregiving, confidence, dream, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Dangerous Love
You wanted someone strong; you wanted someone who wouldn’t crack. You thought you were making me tough by breaking me down. You told yourself it...

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Categories: impressionable, abuse, dark, father daughter,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Foolish Heart
Young an impressionable waits for you                              not knowing you would not...

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Categories: impressionable, day, heartbroken, love, youth,
Form: Pantoum
The Blessings of Grandfathers Beautiful Lies
Impressionable young hearts do tell the grandest lies
When learned from grandfathers with sparkling eyes
Grandfathers living renewed through the breath of a grandchild

Oh grandfathers’ whoppers told...

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Categories: impressionable, child, childhood, family, grandfather,
Form: Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 23
I conversed with the lone demon,
Who had asked for redemption on an earlier day
On this day her voice was mightier,
More brave, and powerful
She dared not...

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Categories: impressionable, bible, change, conflict, irony,
Form: Epic
My Train of Thought Now At 36
we stimulate our minds for our intellect to grow
becoming more technical
remaining spiritually slow

so we face trials and tribulation
crisis and complications
praising God, while serving Satan
expecting love...

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Categories: impressionable, caregiving, faith, philosophy, song-pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terrible Advice
Young me took this to heart:
“Love many, 
Trust few,
And always paddle
your own canoe”

Now I paddle my canoe
In icy waters
Far from my youth
and my many lovers...

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Categories: impressionable, age, love, trust,
Form: Free verse
The End of the Trail
Upon a wall out in the west,
A print hung nailed to adobe.
A beaten Indian warrior hangs his head
On his horse on a cliff so sadly.

His...

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Categories: impressionable, analogy, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Letter To My Hero
November 19, 2001


Dear Doc and Doris,

	It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen you. I believe it was some years ago at the Sims...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impressionable, childhood, growing up, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spiritual Mahjong Your Move Lord
Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before...

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Categories: impressionable, bible, christian, death, i
Form: Free verse
Honor Your Mother and Father
Honor Your Mother and Father

“2Honor (esteem and value as precious) your father and your mother--this is the first commandment with a promise--3That all may be...

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Categories: impressionable, faith, family, inspirational, children,
Form: Rhyme
Imagine This-First Date,First Kiss
I'm painting up my face and nails 
with just a touch of teen.
Cos' Mama's inspection never fails;
of child and adult I'm in between.

Daddy answers the...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impressionable, dad, daughter, mother, teen,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things