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Best Livelong Poems

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


I'Ll Go a Ridin' No More
I’ll go a ridin’ no more through blue stem or chaparral,
Just lead my horse to pastures of green.
I’ll watch those rose ruby suns ease on...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livelong, cowboy-western, death, life, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member Happy Town
It was a happy town
   People liked each other
Whenever someone they did greet
   They'd call out, "Hey there, Brother!"

The Mayor he...

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Categories: livelong, city, happiness, happy, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reflections By Clintons Red Mill
Going through its ambiance, (on) with open thoughts,
Past scenes so serene, and picturesque (in situ passed).
A house, its windows just ajar to the tactile winsome...

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Categories: livelong, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Put Away Childish Things
Put away childish things
yet keep the childlike wonder.
Though dreams be rent asunder
our wishes still have wings.

Put away childish speech
but not the constant queries
that question rooted...

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Categories: livelong, age, childhood, death, feelings,
Form: Verse
Lake Elisa
Lake Eliza
Out by poor old  Lake Elisa lived a moody ancient miser.
Who bemoaned his fate throughout the livelong day.
lived further west than Isa out...

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Categories: livelong, adventure, angst, cowboy-western,
Form: Epitaph



Nobody To Nobody
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us---don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a...

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Categories: livelong, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Must Remember
We Must Remember 

We may want to go-rest in yon'hills.
SLEEP IN NEARBY COOL SHADE.
For life lost its greatest thrills
AND OUR CARDS ARE ALL PLAYED!

Yet our...

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Categories: livelong, art, beautiful, celebration, dance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE

If you pull a long face
Just because you had a bad day
That’s alright you won’t lose face
Everyone’s beset some hapless...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livelong, courage, humorous, life, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Life and Death
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Month of spring,where nature laugh,a new life bloom from the dovecote
AT beneath of fountain,where brook sing with every youthful note
Helpless,naked,piping loud ,the baby flap it...

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Categories: livelong, birth, death,
Form: ABC
A Bird's Love Song: "following a Star"
Wind, take my soul away,
Up high into the sky,
Let me soar through clouds of dreams,
On golden wings I fly.

I'm carried by an eagle,
I float atop...

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© Elaine Ho  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livelong, animals, love, nature, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Peter Popper's Poem-Popper
Peter Popper's Poem-Popper 
  played and popped out poems
     all the livelong day

But one not-so-pleasant day
  Peter Popper's Poem-Popper
stopped...

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Categories: livelong, poems, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Gesture
...a sonnet for R.S. Thomas

A shaft of straw lodged loosely 'twixt his teeth,
a shifty glance from here to everywhere,
he toils the livelong day 'tween farm...

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Categories: livelong, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Celestial Renaissances
New stars are born from those that die
as pearly revenants on high
to occupy the vaulted sky
stelliferous to earthly eye.

When Sun shall lose its healing glow
that...

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Categories: livelong, birth, creation, death, humanity,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Freak Accident Prone
I was a diligent safety engineer, modifying the hazardous work practices,
Like the thrilling festive celebrations, when you open up pretty packages!

I took my work very...

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Categories: livelong, blessing, confidence, dedication, faith,
Form: Couplet
Gesture
...a sonnet for R.S. Thomas

A shaft of straw lodged loosely 'twixt his teeth,
a shifty glance from here to everywhere,
he toils the livelong day 'tween farm...

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Categories: livelong, life
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things