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Best Lags Poems

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


Premium Member Friendly Fire
The campfire reaches
Lighting the night
Rolling the logs
Red embers take flight
Sharing our memories
Eating nuts for snacks
Spitting shells in the fire
The fire spitting them back
We laugh at...

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Categories: lags, appreciation, family, fire, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

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Categories: lags, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Shadow Muse
The fast beat of Lindsey Stirling’s track - ‘Shadows’ - aptly describes what all poets would be familiar with. 
Sit back and prepare yourself for...

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Categories: lags, creation, humorous, me, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Backyard Eden
Early morn’s bright birdsong sings my blink to day activate,  
waking my faith as feel my thoughts cannot think agitate. 

Of earth’s many crisp...

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Categories: lags, appreciation, garden, nature, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
Lonesomeness
When ghosts of seclusion haunt,
And murky clouds of gloom veil the mind,
When tears on rosy cheeks freely flaunt,
Heart misses a beat and lags behind,

Must you...

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Categories: lags, depression, loneliness, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme



Speak Up For Love
If there's anything worth saving
Or could be better done
Needed now more than ever
~Speak up for Love~

Although it stands up under pressure
And shines all by itself
In...

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Categories: lags, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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Categories: lags, bible, bird, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame
Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless...

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Categories: lags, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disgusting Commercial
DISGUSTING COMMERCIAL

As one gets older things begin to sag
Belly hangs over, energy lags

Better take thought for your health old man
Heed this add, start our diet...

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Categories: lags, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Derogatory Diner
There was a chef named Luke,
All of his entrees were nuked.
In every dinner he planned,
All of his food was canned,
And most of his patrons puked.

Now...

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Categories: lags, funny
Form: Limerick
Of Two, Your Uncle Doesn'T Like Either
By his attitudes
your uncle resembles
a machine with laughs in brightness! 
With some difficulty
most people stop themselves
from laughing.
Besides, are they are in a state
to laugh -
poor...

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Categories: lags, imagination, inspirational, people,
Form: Haiku
Remember My Mercy
It’s all out there and in here too.
The pain, confusion, and anxiety.
What is a person to do,
who lags in the virtue of piety.

It must be...

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Categories: lags, forgiveness, friendship, introspection, love,
Form: Sonnet
Dance Lives Life
Like a sweet child in ballet
 toe steps glide across the archway,
A graceful pirouette holding breath and heartbeat
 balanced then suddenly rising like modern athletes.

A...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lags, dance, life, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Woes
The winter days drag and drag
the frown on my face increasingly sags
turning me into a haggard old hag
my husband continues to nag and nag
he's tired...

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Categories: lags, seasonsold, old,
Form: Monorhyme
Silly, Silly, Little Kitten
Playful” The Silly Little kitten

Silly, silly, little kitten, “Playful”
lags behind and gets into mischief   
looks around and touches everything in site
Then
Playful, works up...

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Categories: lags, imagination, pets,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs