Best Laggard Poems
Below are the all-time best Laggard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of laggard poems written by PoetrySoup members
That's Some TrickBewitched again by autumn's laggard spell
Like alchemy, green leaves are turned to gold
Although the summer still has dreams to sell
I watch fall's silent sorcery unfold
Brisk...
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Categories:
laggard, autumn, fun, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Word SquirrelRodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal
Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can...
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Categories:
laggard, animal, children, education, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
When He SmilesThe sun shines again
for he smiles.
The indeterminable day no longer flees or hides
for its end is sought, as is its beginning
for he smiles.
Confusion though...
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Categories:
laggard, adventure, allegory, faith, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Loch NessThe cooling evening breeze lifted and moved the laggard clouds
filtering the burnished moon through the sheer curtains on either side,
makes nature shiver.
Moon holds...
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Categories:
laggard, imagery, moon, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Monarch of SummerI await your coming
for the flowers are blooming and the grass is high…
lilac branches still bare and shivering
in the laggard lion’s breath of March
they await...
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Categories:
laggard, animals, devotion, inspirational, life,
Form:
Haibun
Where Dragonflies AlightIt was a long hike before they reached the campsite,
and sunlight was fading with the slight threat of rain.
Mandy was weary and Jeff's mood was...
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Categories:
laggard, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Stalking the Earthen Orb of MornThe late morning light glazes the lake,
pierces, with stems and stalks of lily and reed.
Shadows freeze like lashes upon the limpid surface
of still water fracturing...
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Categories:
laggard, allegory, imagination, love, nature
Form:
Free verse
Sound and Movement"Move!" sounds command.
I stir, arise, lift a laggard hand.
Can movement mark with magic
All latent space?
Shall thoughtless motion,
Mere mindless flurry,
Confer importance
On the empty hour?
"Speak!" rings out.
Sing...
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Categories:
laggard, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Fear the NightDarkness steals the day’s fading sunlight
as the moon opens his bright eye above.
Stars begin to spray the ebony night
that grips the still earth...
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Categories:
laggard, dream, fear,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
laggard, happiness, inspirational, life, nature
Form:
Haiku
Endless SummerThe hot, autumn sun
spills effulgent;
dark branches, roused,
glow lustrous as blue day.
Burgeoning trees
cling to verdant leaves
denying impending
vermillion days.
Summer's love abides,
warming laggard blooms
under the flowing fern.
Summer will...
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Categories:
laggard, nature, summer,
Form:
Lyric
Brother Watches Over MeMy brother watches over me as I lie sleeping
He cradles me close, afraid I will wake
And he assures me I am in his safe keeping....
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Categories:
laggard, brother, me, voice,
Form:
Villanelle
ResurrectionWake oh laggard sun and anoint a freed age.
Wake the guff and lose all allegiance primal.
Roar and rise angelic at man's evolving
endlessly joyful....
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Categories:
laggard, faith,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Florida NatureThe laggard flow of fresh water
With scattered pads of green
Tall blades of sawgrass stretch around the bank
A lingering fog hovers
Sun is trying...
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Categories:
laggard, nature,
Form:
Free verse
A Night After the Neurosis : a Song For the Mozaic SocietyIt is a quite Sunday morning
It was a weird outing in the evening
We saw fuming ashes
We saw failed elephants
We heard the tales of fallen petals
We...
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Categories:
laggard, allegory, angst, beautiful, character,
Form:
Free verse