Best In The First Place Poems
Below are the all-time best In The First Place poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of in the first place poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Poet Who Never WasI thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...
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Categories:
in the first place, emotions, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
in the first place, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled...
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Categories:
in the first place, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
in the first place, drug, introspection, universe,
Form:
Free verse
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
in the first place, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
in the first place, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
in the first place, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
Flight To MidnightO albatross guide my loosed soul
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal
persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark
I...
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Categories:
in the first place, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form:
Verse
This Spring the Poppies BloomedA field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...
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Categories:
in the first place, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Winsome Wisteria SonnetWinsome Wisteria Sonnet
Eden, open your ardent arms to grace
Wisteria's soft lilac petaled blooms
Draped stunningly about Spring’s sunny face
In softest shades of lavender...
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Categories:
in the first place, beautiful, beauty, flower, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
BrokenI wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
in the first place, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
romance a mingle,...
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Categories:
in the first place, appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sham of My HumanityEvergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...
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Categories:
in the first place, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
in the first place, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Red Leafthe raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
in the first place, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse