Best Literature Poems
Below are the all-time best Literature poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of literature poems written by PoetrySoup members
Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...
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Categories:
death, garden, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part TwoAchilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Achilles, The Journey To Troy
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...
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Categories:
art, death, hero, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Literary CircleI feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading
as avant-garde writers or bona...
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Categories:
literature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales...
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Categories:
literature, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated Part Three, the ConclusionAchilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated
Part Three, (the Conclusion)
Dawn, bright rays fell upon Achilles and his band
exiting ship, Greek sandals felt soft...
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Categories:
art, character, dedication, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Herstory from Battlefields to LaboratoriesHerstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Beneath stardust's scattered gleam,
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.
Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise like...
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Categories:
freedom, girl, history, literature,
Form:
Narrative
Literary Feud Among - Pt 1Prelude to what…..
I see you, / you / yes, come into my……
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of...
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Categories:
emotions, judgement, literature, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Humor Is My InspirationAt awe by my mothers beautiful mind,
when it came to writing I always felt so blind.
Literature class advised us to write,
for the first time I...
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Categories:
literature, memory, me, class, class,
Form:
Couplet
The Hero Code: DecodedI was enthralled by each panel
a world in my grasp.
Comic books whisked me
beyond...
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Categories:
hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Lines
The lines
Inside my head
Spinning
Swirling, curling
Round my brain
Somehow
Find the path
Come winding
Down my arm into my hand
And pop upon the
Paper, canvas,
Glass…
I let them flow
They flow so fast
Words,...
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Categories:
imagination, inspiration, literature, poems,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the...
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Categories:
literature, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form:
Rhyme
SalutationsSalutations to all the poets
That waters my ink,
Those whose words never
Make my heart shrink,
Of you always i ever will think,
Standing alone, i could sink
So i...
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Categories:
literature, dedicationheart, heart, me, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Smokey Filled Speak EasyIn the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar,
Were jazz and jive spill from ajar,
We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars,
And speak in verses, raw...
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Categories:
literature, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To InspirationOh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And...
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Categories:
inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form:
Ode
VoicesWhen cover of a book teases us to pry
Courted we're by sound of their voices:
Writers, creators, poets, and scholars--
Inviting us to virtues of wisdom inside.
If...
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Categories:
art, culture, literature, music,
Form:
Verse