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Best Influence Poems

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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: influence, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Smile Appeared
Silently, I sat by,
To listen to the sounds of the world,
Of all the voices that touched me most,
Were those caught in the angelic wind,
For all...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member When Poets Come Together As One
Lets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, hope, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: influence, community, friend,
Form: Prose



Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: influence, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poetic Predator
Take AI’s verses 
    and make them yours,
fake wisdom through 
   generated synonyms,
stolen from 
   the thesaurus of...

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Categories: influence, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Loneliness
LONELINESS

The lonely person walks unnoticed
with unfocused eye and unsteady step,
failing to keep pace with the crowd.

An approach of reliance to everything,
like a crutch under the...

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Categories: influence, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wake Me, the Owl, When the Moon Does Rise
Wake me, the owl, when the moon does rise
and his golden beams illuminate the skies,
when the darkness flees and the time just flies
and the cold,...

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Categories: influence, bird, fantasy, longing, moon,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Drink the Kool-Aid
Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug – 
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in 
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:

Those mindless, confusing...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I See You Potw
Where are you God?
Where are you?
I see you.
I see you
in the clouds as you influence them to swell,
and nudge each other in the ocean of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mind's Cornfield
The Mind’s Cornfield

Dreaming deeply on this dark, dank, frigid-cold night,
My spirit-body walks freely in this place of solitude—
The Mind’s Cornfield, where fantasy and reality are...

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Categories: influence, allegory, death, emotions, faith,
Form: Terza Rima
A Rattling Rhyme
SHE’s COMING AGAIN!

There’s a chill in the air
There’s a word on the street
Be afraid have a care
Put the children to sleep 
She was gone, bells...

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Categories: influence, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To feel evergreen

In my poetic garden, where petals breathe with light - I feel evergreen.
Among ruby roses I see butterflies take flight - I feel evergreen.

Roaming under...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, analogy, love, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Essence of my Poetry
How do I praise your influence, oh Rumi?
For you are the essence of my poetry. 
Poet's quote.

I was lost in mournful melodies of birds,
until death...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: influence, appreciation, life, philosophy,
Form: Masnavi

Book: Shattered Sighs