Best Laid Up Poems
Below are the all-time best Laid Up poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of laid up poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
laid up, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
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Categories:
laid up, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poetry SoapIt’s almost time and I must run
to watch/read Poetry Soap for fun.
It comes on every day at this time
and I don’t want to miss a...
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Categories:
laid up, abuse, conflict, jealousy, love,
Form:
Couplet
Where the White Rose BloomsThe single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...
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Categories:
laid up, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form:
Quatrain
Flight To MidnightO albatross guide my loosed soul
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal
persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark
I...
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Categories:
laid up, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form:
Verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
laid up, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
laid up, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Shepherd Who Forgot His FlockIt's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see
sometimes they bleed.
Some say words heal,
but I resist to...
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Categories:
laid up, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet's GiftA Poet's Gift
A poet writes to share a secret depth
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their...
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Categories:
laid up, art, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Crimson MoonO beguiling crimson Moon
Fiercely blazing for want of thee;
Descending beneath faltering clouds;
Leering wantonly;
And She:
Her coy distractions and brazen
Enchantments
Laid bare and stripped rude...
Like the naked...
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Categories:
laid up, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
laid up, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
A Need To Be Somewhere ElseI’m the one who needs to be somewhere else,
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...
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Categories:
laid up, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
They Told Me You CriedThey told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where...
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Categories:
laid up, lost love, recovery from,
Form:
Sonnet
The Universe of YouI have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.
I have always heard the...
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Categories:
laid up, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form:
Couplet
An Epic Love For WomenI know you're not here
but you are in my heart
so
you are always with me
i'll just slip into you
with these words.
I know
there...
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Categories:
laid up, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form:
Epic