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Best Intensity Poems

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


Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: intensity, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Watcher
I watched a weeping willow
Dancing with a summer breeze
A timeless dance of lovers
They'd rehearsed for centuries

The zephyr would excite her
With his warm southwesterlies
She'd gently sway...

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Categories: intensity, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: intensity, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gift of Poetry
A poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive...

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Categories: intensity, art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore to be held to.
Her grace, soft as the silence of...

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Categories: intensity, appreciation, beauty, loss, passion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew
Her Grace, Soft As The Silence Of Morn's Falling Dew
 
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore...

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Categories: intensity, appreciation, art, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wolfspirit
while eagles soar high
over rugged mountains
of south carolina
through writings shared 
WolfSpirit takes shape
my mind pictures the man
in all his wisdom
half human half spirit

i hear his...

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Categories: intensity, god, meaningful, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love Story
Sheer poetry in motion with a picnic basket in hand 
Laughing brandishing a bottle as he lopes along the sand
His handsome features completely wreathed in...

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Categories: intensity, love, lust, romance, sensual,
Form: Verse
Yesterdays
She swept the side effects of yesterday
Into an unknown place where
Longing transcends the ache
Of remembered years that cling
To wounds that never heal.

The haunting specter of...

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Categories: intensity, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Mango Fandango
Tongues of my temptress fire lick 
arousing your ardent artistic desire
if you dare  imagine me — the intensity
capture me, take your chance
I’ll love you,...

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Categories: intensity, dance, emotions, imagery, imagination,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...

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Categories: intensity, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Feelings
FEELINGS


Feelings,
Masters of my destiny
Lords of my life
Strength of my dreams
Instigators of my actions

Burning fire you are 
Consuming my whole 
Being:
My heart
My mind 
My soul
My spirit,...

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Categories: intensity, imagination, introspection, language, universe,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Pierced
Imperfect as we are, how can we
begin to grasp the intensity
of His pain, that immense agony
of suffering for humanity?

To be unblemished, yet have to be
the...

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Categories: intensity, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intensity, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Tame the Tempest
They know how to press those buttons,
With just a familiar chosen word or two,
How to enrage one's spirit with a tone,
A glance sharp enough to...

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Categories: intensity, anger, feelings, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things