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Best Keep Poems

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

The Mother Tree

The Mother Tree

I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...

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Categories: keep, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form: Sonnet

Big Girls Do Cry

They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: keep, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse

Hard Times

When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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Categories: keep, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Dreams of India

Dreams of India

Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.

I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...

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Categories: keep, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse

Love One Another

“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: keep, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Poor Peter Pumpkin

Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: keep, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Couplet

no poet am I -

a poet, you say? pardon no, not am I
there's only ONE poet - He writes on the
       sky
of sunsets...

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Categories: keep, blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Couplet

Pink Lace

**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon** 

"PINK LADIES"  
  
The phone rings, 
The clock dings,

I scream, scream, and...

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Categories: keep, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Touch

"TOUCH"

I want to touch your life
and leave a mark ...
... a deep impression ...
So you will think of me
and of my smile ...
... my sweet...

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Categories: keep, love, me,
Form: Rhyme

- Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -

The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

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Categories: keep, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima

A Poem For My Algebra Teacher

I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: keep, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Honeymoon Serenade

Just as the moon rises each night
and even as snow is caressed by its light,
then glowing, I'll rise, becoming your dawn,
your curved sleeping form to...

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Categories: keep, romance,
Form: Lyric

Don'T Bother Me

Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: keep, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme

A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings

you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: keep, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse

So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows

This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: keep, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme