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Best Lingering Poems

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


Premium Member Fall In Love
F eeling enraptured, Autumn dances in the wind, then undresses.
A s bright robes fall to the ground, her passion paints the twilight skies.
L ike a...

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Categories: lingering, autumn, love, nature,
Form: Acrostic



Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: lingering, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End
The End

Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.

The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.

What once meant everything,
Really...

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Categories: lingering, change, death, god, heaven,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Oh, Autumn
Oh, splendorous, spectacular, resplendent autumn!

Boldly you dye cypress ~ flaunting ochre, cinnamon,
Yellowing sugar-maple, glazing tangerine emotions,

As scarlet winds warble in accents of majestic aspens,
Responding in...

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Categories: lingering, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise

Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.

Haloed in hazy...

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Categories: lingering, memory, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Year Dwindling Down
Apple cheeked autumn eyes bashful skies, as

Yellow frocked summer says her goodbyes to fragrant
Earth's seeded spring, to wild bouquets
Arranged by careless care, for the
Roses and...

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Categories: lingering, flower, nature, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Stairway To the Stars
stairway to the stars
celestial light beckons me
no puddles overflow with tears 
my life’s silent movie
reruns in my mind

not a loved one left behind
those I cherish...

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Categories: lingering, farewell, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: lingering, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member And Sweet Is Her Demise
In primrose twilight, summer is still near.
She whispers in my ear; I hear her in
the one lone owl that hoots to only me.
I wake to...

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Categories: lingering, autumn, death, summer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member From My Porch
After the end of a long hot day
At the end of my rope  with nerves all frayed
I sat on the porch to rest a...

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Categories: lingering, summer,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Beyond the Bloom of Starlight
Beyond the sun's celestial dominion, 
past purple shimmers of twilight,
I delve far beyond moonlight's golden glow 
into the darkness of pilloried memories,
continually searching for answers...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lingering, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sol To Soul
G O L D E N
 
flower
of the solar throne
your far-away fire reigns immortal -

blossom wild beauty of chrysanthemum skies
hold me in the unfolding glory...

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Categories: lingering, autumn, flower, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wild Rose
This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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Categories: lingering, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
On Poetry Soup
 A first day on Soup is filled with much awe
The wonderful poems will make you smile
Easy is it to fall for all
Some enabled my...

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Categories: lingering, friend, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: lingering, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse

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