Best Last Poems
Below are the all-time best Last poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last poems written by PoetrySoup members
Love Passing ByWhen the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...
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Categories:
last, love, love, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection**REFLECTION**
Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...
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Categories:
last, abuse, death, for her,
Form:
Epic
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
last, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
last, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
last, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
last, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
last, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
last, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
last, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
last, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
last, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
last, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...
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Categories:
last, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
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
Like...
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Categories:
last, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poet In RecluseI relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your...
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Categories:
last, emotions, solitude,
Form:
Rubaiyat