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Best Leaden Poems

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


Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: leaden, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: leaden, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: leaden, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: leaden, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: leaden, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS

Twelve  brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.

Of former days there is no...

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Categories: leaden, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Winters End
Hereabouts the thinning glades
Of sparse grey Birches:
Brackens crisp copper tresses 
All aglow;
Gently waking Snowdrops
Lift their sleepy heads
From leafy beds of woodland moil,
When tucked snugly up,
Out...

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Categories: leaden, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loneliness
1  LONELINESS

(Message of hope dedicated to all those that have been through such an excruciating experience.)


Loneliness:
Painful
Agonizing
Merciless 
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each...

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Categories: leaden, inspirational, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Journey of a Tear
It often trickles slowly, timid and shy
From the inner eyelid of a song
Or down the cheek of a distant mountain
A sunset rising beyond the hill,...

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Categories: leaden, day, old, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TRANSMUTATION
Once I had harbored complexes many.
I thought I wasn’t beautiful or wise.
With my spluttering tone and broken speech,
I feared, my words fell flat,
Never leaving an...

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Categories: leaden, baptism, birth, change,
Form: Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: leaden, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
Ode To Winter
Light splashes in the eyes and vibrate
My heart to a rich ecstatic state
Joy is the only bird in the leaden sky
Calling the winds to choir...

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Categories: leaden, faith, happiness, hope, nature
Form: Ode
Premium Member Changing Sky
My weeping eyes behold the changing sky
O'erspread with clouds of grey where once was blue
With gaze upturned, I heave a burdened sigh
At all the world...

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Categories: leaden, earth, emotions, rain, rainbow,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Nayda
Beyond the skills of escorts
and the appeal of other playthings,
smolders the need of the soul
infused to best every man.
Twelve years have taken
the scars out of...

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Categories: leaden, beauty, inspiration, introspection, poetess,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Joy
Joy (Pleiades)    

Jettison leaden thoughts
Juxtapose light and dark
Join me in spreading the
Jovial mood of love
Jump with pure elation
Jocund spirits outwit
Jealousy, hate and...

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Categories: leaden, happiness, joy,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs