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Best Lasted Poems

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


Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)

Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...

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Categories: lasted, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: lasted, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: lasted, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: lasted, fantasy, funny, holiday,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas' ...
          And with finances dead,
      ...

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Categories: lasted, christmas, funny, humorous, satire,
Form: Rhyme



My Turn To Cry
I’ve distanced myself
I didn’t mean to
Didn’t set out to do it
An unconscious act of the mind 
For self preservation

My visits went to once a week
Sunday...

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Categories: lasted, confusion, depression, devotion, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: lasted, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Your Poem
Today, as random thoughts were passing through
One came along which took my mind to you
These days, they come around now and again
I guess because you...

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Categories: lasted, appreciation, friend,
Form: Rhyme
A Broken Heart I Met
I once met a broken heart ,
It said it longed for love.
And it'd been yearning so long !
It said there's no God above.
.
For if there...

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Categories: lasted, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Obsidian Plague of Midnights
In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter,
all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow.
The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes,
but...

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Categories: lasted, friend, grief,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Bag of Popcorn
They ask me why I’m so happy
Asking me, if I just won a prize
I replied, well I reckon I did
Today is a wonderful surprise

When you...

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Categories: lasted, food, happiness, introspection, life,
Form: Couplet
To Be a Kid Once Again
I don't need to remember what it was like  to be  a kid

 I don' t need to memorize where all the fun...

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Categories: lasted, growing up, happiness, kid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: lasted, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Self Inflicted Blues
This day I grow tired
and so incredibly weary.
My heart holds only dreams
of a Life unfullfilled
A Life not nurtured,
yet barely a glimmer
of the spirit that once...

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Categories: lasted, hope, life, me, age,
Form: Free verse
Anxious Dissolution
IV

A soul was broken to make room
For dusty halls and labyrinths.
A gossamer, nylon bed-sheet shroud
Enwraps the remnants of that mind.
And no excuses can be made;...

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Categories: lasted, allegory, depression, introspection, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs