Best Light Verse Poems
Below are the all-time best Light Verse poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of light verse poems written by PoetrySoup members
Please, Pull Up a Chair
I’d like you to bring me a dinner for two -
A serving for me and a serving for you.
I’ll order up something that we two...
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Categories:
fun,
Categories:
love, romantic,
FORGOTTEN TREASURE- The RebirthFORGOTTEN TREASURE
I found the fountain of youth
When I stumbled across the forbidden garden
Right smack in the middle,
Was what I thought to be a wishing well
I...
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Categories:
beauty, deep, growing up,
The Library of Trust and HopeThe Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope
(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)
She was all but...
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analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
LOVE'S CHEMICAL DERIVATIVES
Can love then, be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...
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Categories:
love, science,
A Reverse Rant"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!
What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not...
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humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Love Sleeps, Never DiesAn old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire
Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...
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Categories:
angel, beauty, child, hope,
Poetry in Poetry a Duet of Lonely BluesPoetry
Is not the poem
Is not the poet
Is the observations
Is the emotions
Is the diversity. entwined
Opposing views always sought
Is the love
Is the hate
Is the sadness
Of losing to...
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dark, introspection, philosophy, poetry,
She's BeautifulI know a girl
That's pure beauty to see
Won't mention her name
As I feel there's no need
You'd know by her smile
Her sparkling eyes
The way she celebrates
Every...
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Categories:
beautiful, women,
To Take Each Day As It ComesTo take each day as it comes
To gratefully praise The One
Joyfully face the new dawn’s grace,
That's now my everyday plan.
To take each day as it...
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character, encouraging, growing up,
Don't Skip A BeatLove
knows
no age
or beauty
Love
knows
no rich
or poor
Love
knows
no religion
or race
Love
knows
no straight
or gay
Love
knows
no boundary
or reason
Love
knows
no distance
or time
Love
knows only
the rapid beating
of a giving heart sublime...
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Categories:
beauty,
A Bridge Over Silent WatersA Bridge Over Silent Waters
Never judge your fellow man
Before seeking your own reflection
Not the one that shines in a glass mirror
Seek it in the eyes...
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appreciation, art, deep, garden,
She by the SeaI see the pain
Reflected via turquoise blue
Of the oceans hue
She stares out into the oceans depth
Lost
Her lover dead under the sea
The waves have made her...
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Categories:
angst, beauty, conflict, death,
The Devils RiddleThe Devils Riddle
Dark is the night
Dark is the soul
Dark is the heart that used to glow
Empty are the rainbows falling from the skies
Empty of the...
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Categories:
grave, home, journey,
MY EYESMy eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...
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Categories:
father, mother, wife, ,
Little Miss SpringThey say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
and...
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adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
SPILLS OF IMAGINATION
early dawn cracks the wispy air
open , wandering around viscous spaces
like fairy shadows caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,
taller than...
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Categories:
imagination, poetry,
SOMEDAY
As this week closes into hours of pewter night
may the moonlight touch your lips while
I sleep in the arms of dreams unrefined.
Though I may not...
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Categories:
how i feel, time,
D-Day in Malta:::co-write
We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour...
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Categories:
fun,
This Is Jack
Yesterday I saw a very creepy mouse,
Sneaking right through my front door,
He was wearing tails and a top black hat
And dragging a...
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Categories:
funny, humorous,
Kiss the WindI lay down
A lazy Sunday afternoon
The first winds from the north
Blowing snow like a blanket upon our souls
I fall asleep, in a haze of dreams
Where...
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Categories:
deep, dream, lost love,
IN THE MOOD
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...
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Categories:
adventure, woman,
DesireYour love touched me. . .
As a butterfly softly alights on a flower.
I didn't notice until you flew away.
*Note: This poem is about not realizing...
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Categories:
life, lost love, love,
The Sky She Sees Is Beautiful To be at peace with myself again..
To ..
Smell the scent of fresh-cut grass
Hear the crunch of falling leaves
Wear garlands of yellow...
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Categories:
how i feel,
And you were that shore.
You were skipping stones
and as I watched
a slowly arching ripple
gently kissing the shore
I found myself wishing
I was that ripple
and you were that shore...
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Categories:
love,