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Best Likable Poems

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


Premium Member Poetic Theme
So, what is the best theme for
a poem?  No guarded secret, all themes --  
Freely to Roam! And what, the prescribed 
destination or...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likable, perspective, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Africa,All I Need Is Love
She has the eyes of a lion and the smile of a fairy
She has the claws of a bear and the cuteness of a kitten
She...

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Categories: likable, africa, deep, desire, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Playing a Brief Song With This Guitar
In the warmest of seasons,
when the cheerless moon of a remote town
rises from beyond the fir and maple-covered hills,
in great suspense and silence,
a brief song...

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Categories: likable, naturesong, song,
Form: Narrative
Personal Worth
Personal Worth 
Everyone has value. Everyone has been called for such a time as this to use their unique gifts and experiences to serve others...

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Categories: likable, spoken word, sympathy, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Callie Cat, the Perfect Pet
One day my daughter brought home a scraggly looking young cat who had always 
lived outside. In her first year, we learned she had given...

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Categories: likable, animalsdaughter, me, cat, cat,
Form: Narrative



Pills Pills Pills
Headache? Pop some pills!
Fever or for any of your ills -
Sore throat? Running nose?
Backache? Joint pain?
Bad bowl moment? Sleeplessness?
Low libido? Birth control? Weight loss?
Feeling blue?...

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Categories: likable, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
Memory of Masquerades Cat-Walking
Flaring free tickets to the cynosure show,
  Waking up early to dusty harmattan blow,
  To perceive piercing Uveve whistle set senses on edge,
...

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Categories: likable, mystery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Leaf-Paved Path
Toddlers played in dry sand 
Hot sun made each cheek red
Ellen was their likable friend
Long before winter came
Enjoyed evenings with them
Always refusing to rest 
Fireflies...

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Categories: likable, funny, nature, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Bubbly and a Geek
Her four eyes laugh louder than her mouth,

Her childish lips are funny like that funny stout.

She’s fifteen and is fond of writing about fiction,

She’s the...

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Categories: likable, funny, girl,
Form: I do not know?
Something About Ed's Wife, Part I
I first met Ed’s wife when he moved in next door,
it was hard not to see such a beauty,
nearly six feet, with long, honey-blonde hair,
and...

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Categories: likable, friend, life, loss, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nudgings From a Muse
Likable Muse, Nudges, Opportunities Poetically, 
so the poet can spill their ink on a blank canvas.
words and thoughts become one; like a mitten, 
letting each...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likable, appreciation, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme
Parley-Vous Parallel Universe
I pushed the red button
The one that said don't push the red button
And ended up on the other side
Of something out of nothing

I was in...

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Categories: likable, funny, humor, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Blueberry
4/3/22


Can't stay gloomy
Or think looney
Because the outcome will be puny
It's nothing new to be
All this tomfoolery
Won't ever be cool to me
The same can be said...

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Categories: likable, dark, deep, life, nice,
Form: Rhyme
I Have Home It
At home, I have witness them all,
 Witness the process of germinating
 From precious seed sown amongst thorn and tares,
 To taken root, even when...

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Categories: likable, mystery
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Not Fake News This Just In
FROM BIKINI BOTTOM TIMES...

...Spongebob Squarepants...what...atoll...?
plunged into where,...no way...toilet bowl...
supposedly, when the ghostly hand ex-toll
ling praise from his late creator, and master

meow mind of popular Stephen...

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Categories: likable, absence, anger, angst, character,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs