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Best Instrument Poems

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


Broken Instrument
What happens to this poetry embroidered within the walls of my heart, 
When the joy of my words are shattered underneath your feet, 
Can the...

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Categories: instrument, love hurts, poetry,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instrument, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic Verse
POTD 7th Mar 2018

I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem

Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste...

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Categories: instrument, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If I Could Play the Violin
If I could play the violin
     I'd write a melody
   euphonious to draw you in
    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instrument, encouraging, love, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poets
The keyboard is their instrument

A heart aroused warm with desire

Emotions long pent up unvented

Maybe rage set the mouse on fire_

Poetry is their game

Fun played and...

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Categories: instrument, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Yellow Heart
This morning I wrote a poem
about a yellow heart 
pining for red fusion,
in a desperate attempt
to shake the fruit
that never 

falls

And tonight I am alone
without...

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Categories: instrument, hope, life, love, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Here I Am My Lord
Here I am, My Lord,

                    ...

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Categories: instrument, character, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Love Knows No Form My Love
one with the music 
a vestibule for magic 
love fills the night air


Let my aura deep red spill onto the page, 
I an instrument in the name of...

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Categories: instrument, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hands of a Master
At my ripe age it's plain to me
That wisdom can come painfully

             ...

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Categories: instrument, analogy, art, faith, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: instrument, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Type, Cast
He crafted word ...
all plucked delicately
like the petals pulled for a vinok
precious and pink and pulpy
wove them, giv'n a similar grace
not for vanity, mind you...

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Categories: instrument, analogy, art, creation, introspection,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Other Woman
While your hands caress my body, is it her face that you see?
Is your thunder of release now brought on by HER memory?

Am I just...

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Categories: instrument, love hurts,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blank White Paper
Blank white paper
Infinite hope, endless promise 
An inspirational instrument

The artists canvas and lawmakers device
How an absent lover expresses love so precise

So much to say, I’m...

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Categories: instrument, hope,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Erato Muse of Poetry
1.
Uninvited you come, oh Erato*, you muse of poetry, the 
Majority of the times,
Knocking at my soul’s door at any given moment
Insisting on letting you...

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Categories: instrument, inspiration, muse, poetry, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Music of Our Love
When we meet our hearts connect
as though we were cords on a violin 
A shapely instrument of beauty and grace 
When aged the sounds are...

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Categories: instrument, devotion, love
Form: Free verse

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