Best Leave Poems
Below are the all-time best Leave poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of leave poems written by PoetrySoup members
Wind From the SeaInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...
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Categories:
leave, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
leave, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
Melancholic TreeIn the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.
Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below,
an isolated tree - naked and...
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Categories:
leave, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
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:
leave, 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:
leave, 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:
leave, 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:
leave, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
They Walk Amongst UsThey walk amongst us, but in silent ways,
spreading peace and love without any praise.
When thunder roars and lightning strikes in rain
they watch over us, healing...
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Categories:
leave, angel, appreciation, tribute,
Form:
Sonnet
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage 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:
leave, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
leave, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Quarantine of the Soul-Quarantine of the Soul-
Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost
Dark
You open...
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Categories:
leave, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
leave, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
Sailing the Seas In a Pecan TreeThe wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...
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Categories:
leave, adventure, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The Best Poem Ever~The best poem ever~
Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....
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Categories:
leave, death, words, heart, heart,
Form:
Epic
No Such Thing As ForeverWe all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the...
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Categories:
leave, analogy, death, life,
Form:
Free verse