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


Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: knowledge, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: knowledge, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: knowledge, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: knowledge, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

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Categories: knowledge, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I Long To Write a Poem - Just Right
I long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce...

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Categories: knowledge, bullying, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Will Never Be Enough Time
There Will Never Be Enough Time

There will never be enough time to hear unique
music of nature's songs in its birds, its insects,
in songs of the...

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Categories: knowledge, earth, mountains, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: knowledge, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: knowledge, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: knowledge, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...

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Categories: knowledge, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member India
I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the language
Swelling in...

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Categories: knowledge, appreciation, art, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humanity
Shadow not over the words of love
Love is a language known only to the heart
Hear it in the wind and the birds above
Paint it on...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: knowledge, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: knowledge, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Was Her Best Lover- Not For Contest
Poetry was her best lover
like no other
he loved her
without restraint
She could be herself
and explore
discovering
secret pleasures and fantasies

Naked above the covers
he let her lie exposed
as he...

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Categories: knowledge, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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