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


Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: live, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: live, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired 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: live, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: live, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Natures Gift
It's how the stars are lit at night
     and how the dew drops glisten
     How evening shadows...

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Categories: live, blessing, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities 
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a 
few forests. A ruby red swirls within 
its petals beckons awareness of those...

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Categories: live, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You 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: live, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Who But God
Who but God could paint the evening sky
And use a brush that is a fiery torch?
Tonight, the garish sunset makes me high
In awe, I stand...

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Categories: live, philosophy, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Healing Power of the Drum
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: live, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Like Zephyr Breeze
Before I ever saw those eyes      How deeply I loved you.

Before you read my first thought    ...

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Categories: live, absence,
Form: Free verse
Best Friend Defined
What's a best friend,
But the smell before rain?
The hand that we give,
When a friend is in pain

It's the things that we do,
The words that we...

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© Dana Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: live, friendship, hope, love, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: live, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: live, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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: live, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: live, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs