Best Kipling Poems
Below are the all-time best Kipling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of kipling poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Interpretation of If By Rudyard KiplingMY INTERPRETATION OF IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING -
If you can keep calm when all around you,
Are frustrated, and angry with you,
Always believe in...
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Categories:
kipling, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Little Ol' MeI wish I could write
like those others before me,
Byron and Shelley and old Edgar Poe
Flowery phrases
Thy love unforgetting,
chasing a raven as ink tends to flow
Follow...
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Categories:
kipling, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the...
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Categories:
kipling, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form:
Rhyme
Call Your MotherCall Your Mother
Pick up the phone...
do it now.
If you can.
Later if you must,
I trust that you,
know the difference.
She never put you...
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Categories:
kipling, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Famous Poet CompThere once was a poet called Jan
who took the Mick out of her fellow man
from the size of his ears
to the size of his...
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Categories:
kipling, fun,
Form:
Limerick
Headed For the GristmillYesterday’s sweet corn
now rests among the shucked,
where norms’ victims lay.
Side-by-side...
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Categories:
kipling, angst, metaphor,
Form:
Lyric
Time Does Not Stand StillTime Does Not Stand Still
Yesterday is remembered
And tomorrow we have not seen
Uncertainty and memories
Surround us in today.
The cycle never changes
And time does not stand...
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Categories:
kipling, time, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The ContestThe Contest
I would like to enter,
and sometimes I do.
Occasionally I even win,
to my surprise.
How cool!
The true rule,
to every fool,
or pirate...
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Categories:
kipling, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form:
Narrative
Sunset SpiritSunset Spirit
Close your eyes,
and stop thinking.
Take a moment...
breathe.
God is already beside you.
He has always been there.
It is you,
that must slow...
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Categories:
kipling, angel, death, grief, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
FearFear
It is a very small demon.
It is a tiny monster,
that never stops chewing on;
anything it can get.
It is the one that hides,...
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Categories:
kipling, angel, bible, creation, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
ButterflyButterfly
Butterfly sweet,
lovely wings of gossamer gold.
Stretch your tips to the stars,
as that is the reality of freedom.
Glide for hours above the...
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Categories:
kipling, butterfly, cancer, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
AndAnd
Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies.
These are the things
we live with, in the country.
Some you step on,
some travel in your clothes,...
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Categories:
kipling, adventure, christian, creation, garden,
Form:
Free verse
The Virus Coronavirus Covid 19"V"irus now controlling the world.
"I"n every home changes are coming.
"R"un to the store to get what you need.
"U"se peace not fear to escape the stress.
"S"un...
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Categories:
kipling, death, prayer, world,
Form:
Acrostic
Puzzles In PinkPuzzles in Pink
Yesterday is just a dream.
I took you everywhere,
but you... do not remember.
My little one,
you cried and cried.
We went...
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Categories:
kipling, childhood, daughter, heaven, holiday,
Form:
Ballad
CocklebursCockleburs
Small green weeds,
with little seed pots,
that stick to your socks.
They travel with you,
to the next place,
that God wants them to...
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Categories:
kipling, cute, december, grave, irony,
Form:
Narrative