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Best Lauded Poems

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


Hidden Beauty
Hidden 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: lauded, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Why I Became a Poet
Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lauded, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Adored To Abhorred
from owned to dethroned
you led me
from queen to unseen
you hid me
once crowned to now bound
you kept me

absorbed to derobed
you left me
a spectacle to be gawked...

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Categories: lauded, courage, woman,
Form: Rhyme
I Am But a Grain of Sand
"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach, 
and I am but a grain of sand."
      ...

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Categories: lauded, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long-Suffering Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God; 
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing, 
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope 
that stretched...

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Categories: lauded, forgiveness, husband, wifehusband, marriage,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Brokenhearted Sunsets
It's never anything big, just a nagging defeat
Of wanting to be exclusive in your ambit,
For in your eyes, I see an opportune disguise
Living as a...

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Categories: lauded, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: lauded, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Whose Memories Are These
Whose voices, whose memories are these
That warble in trees, exalting my breeze
Applauding the daybreak's cerulean grin
Where amber ocher designs are floating in

Is that your echo...

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Categories: lauded, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Remission (In Memory of William Watt).
Birth begins the tragedy in us. Life's
First sound is a blank scream
Against sorrow's hidden portends of strifes
All we know are mirages and dream.

Mother took the...

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Categories: lauded, brother, death, nostalgiaworld, time,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Faithful Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God;
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing,
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope
that stretched beyond an ordinary...

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Categories: lauded, devotion, faithlove,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
Donning splendiferous landscapes stretching for miles,
A culture that aptly prides, in bold, welcoming smiles;
A thriving land of islands~ an archipelago evincing awe,
A resplendence of nature,...

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Categories: lauded, culture, nature, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Preaching Peace

Trembling in the silence of a fresh snowfall, awaiting the struggle of laughter and tears, the beautiful that comes from stars shadowed by flakes so...

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Categories: lauded, appreciation, beautiful, january, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Radiance of Sunset
It was time for day to bid adieu to the setting sun,
when tangerine hues blend with those of pale pink.
Not to miss the titian glow,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lauded, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Let Rip the Farts of Love and War
I love to fart, it stands me tall,
the raucous rumbling, belly bell,
all look around with eyes aghast,
to witness such a mighty  blast.

when before the...

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Categories: lauded, humor,
Form: Verse
Categories: lauded, people,
Form: Curtal Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs