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Best Inducted Poems

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


Downtown Nashville
Downtown Nashville is a place I’d love to call my home,
With fine country singers dancing on the Grand Ole Opry-
With Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inducted, city,
Form: Quatrain



Brothels Have Closed
Brothels have closed now what?
Does anybody care?
Did anybody think about the hapless women living there
What about them?
What will they do now for two square meals...

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Categories: inducted, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1140 Royal Street
The first time I met Madame La Laurie, was in 1832 When she and her third husband (Dr. Louis La Laurie) purchased me. My first...

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Categories: inducted, abuse, evil, history, murder,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Happy Birthday To My Sister Sharon
June 22nd Summer unknown to me; My younger Sister Sharon Enters --- The World
Her Heart holds the secrets of the  universe , her mind...

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Categories: inducted, love, sistersister, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase...

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Categories: inducted, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Roger Williams
~Roger Williams~
(Acrostic)


R-oger Williams, his music is timelessly delightful.There's no
O-ther in the world like him.He started to play piano at age three.A
G-raduated of I.S.U.Drake University,and Julliard...

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Categories: inducted, beautiful, celebrity, music, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Where Did We Go Wrong
Shovels,blue overalls and head lamps.
They dug the golds fields to feed our our hungry stomachs,they carried the Dompas to free our future,they took beatings for...

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Categories: inducted, philosophy, political,
Form: Narrative
Am I the Next One
Am I The Next One

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys invited from selected primary schools…
The State Squash Association warmly welcomes each one of you into...

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Categories: inducted, career, children, community, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why Positive Is Healthier
Positive values,
like health
integrity
resilience
compassion
empathy
beauty
are not best built
from Yang's strong conserving top negative emotions
down to Yin's struggling positive flow-power intention
toward winning nutrition 
while winning integrity's future nurture.

Health...

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Categories: inducted, analogy, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The Say Hey Kid
The crowd stood up and roared as
he came up to bat and scored
entertaining our rowdy bunch in center field.

Say Hey was born a poor black...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inducted, sportsbaseball,
Form: Acrostic
The Most Interesting Man In the World
If he nodded at the president, hello, 
the president would write it in his personal bio.
He told jokes to the Dalai Lama.
The Dalai laughed, even...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inducted, funnywrite, write,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Let It Go To Your Head By Fefe Dobson and Jordin Sparks
The hit single, "Don't Let It Go To Your Head," is the best song all music fans have ever heard. It was performed by Fefe...

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Categories: inducted, music, song, music, music,
Form: Epic
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is, and will always be, the greatest female rock star of the 1980s to the 21st
century. All the rock music fans know that...

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Categories: inducted, musicmusic, music,
Form: Epic
Away In a Far Off Town
Dozing off behind the wheel 
Sleep-deprived decapitated 
Dillaudid consequences 

Incarcerate 
Betrayed confidences 
 Incriminated 
Responsibility blotted 

Dead friends 
Incinerated 
In reality 
They rotted 

Alive. 

Years...

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Categories: inducted, death, emotions, obituary, political,
Form: Verse
I Cannot Doubt
I know I dream, my angel --
I know how deep it!
Ghost aren’t welcome --
The worms are dead
Because I see only you
Nearby the October's Sun.

Night like...

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Categories: inducted, childhood, fear, loss, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs