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Best Intermittent Poems

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


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: intermittent, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Imagine This
You wake up to commotion, throw on some clothes.
Outside you see some bloody bodies piled on the street.
People are screaming, running in all directions
away from...

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Categories: intermittent, freedom,
Form: Free verse
To Write of Love
If I was to write of love, then from my
nib your heart would flow. Dreams
would be the parchment on which I
scribe, and your fragrance the...

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Categories: intermittent, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I...

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Categories: intermittent, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Parting
I took you for your final walk
On that crisp and sunny day
The blanket round your 
shoulders
To keep the chill at bay

We didn't talk the way...

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Categories: intermittent, bereavement
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member If I Shopped For My Spouse Like I Shop For My Automobile
My man was old and battered and was destined for the scrap heap
He’d failed his annual MOT as his many defects ran far too deep
His...

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Categories: intermittent, age, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: intermittent, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member A Hidden Maestro
I was a professional, melodic dance instructor, at the flowery prime of the art,
And I taught its various, elegant styles, sweet joy of valuable living...

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Categories: intermittent, career, dance, fantasy, magic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Louisiana Bayou
"There are those to whom place is unimportant,
But this place, where sea and fresh water meet,
Is important ---"
From "The Rose", by Theodore Roethke

Chilly late October;
thin...

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Categories: intermittent, art, inspirational, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waiting Sings Along With Torment
WAITING SINGS ALONG WITH TORMENT

Each night aroma of jonquils arrive to tickle me
yet no console as I am a slave to your absence
as bright full...

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Categories: intermittent, desire, feelings, lonely, love,
Form: Rhyme
Computer Love
Daydreaming of you is all I seem to do.
Staring at your picture on my computer screen, wishing you were here staring back at me.
Your my...

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Categories: intermittent, boyfriend, desire, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Rusty Screen
Ethereal rays of light
dilute darkness into gray.
And black no longer shrouds night,
only shadows defy day.

A spiderweb casts a hue
of iridescent flashes.
And the morning mist drips...

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Categories: intermittent, beauty, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member For What Its Worth
Mindfull of a parallel sequence
we seem to function light between
thought and hurt hoping for
easy advancement up the channel steps--
pecarious invoking with someone who
knows--- and not...

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Categories: intermittent, husband, marriage, stress, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Saturday Reflection
I hear the chirruping of birds.
It emerges from vast hidden spaces
from wherever the birds may be.
Their twittering sounds are scattered,
interspersed with cricket sounds
and the intermittent...

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Categories: intermittent,
Form: Lyric
Love Is a Mirage
Love all hate none
is a common saying 
I too fell prey to it
And Fell in love ....
My love worked well 
As long as there was...

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Categories: intermittent, betrayal, break up, hate,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs