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Best Loft Poems

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


Premium Member Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree
The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...

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Categories: loft, adventure, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: loft, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Aphrodite of the Morning Sun
Your honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…

Mane of a lioness suave...

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Categories: loft, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: loft, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.

Once all...

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Categories: loft, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Choir Director
My choir director
                    is a painter
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: loft, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Solemn Seduction - For Contest
Solemn Seduction – for contest


soft winds are swallowed
by my wings
stolen
as the breath of lovers
waiting

unblinking eyes seducing
darkness
prying truth from camouflage

rotations of twist top head
listening for the...

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Categories: loft, beauty, nature, strength,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Aborted Vow
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a tangle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust, quivering
unto fissure of grass where my heart scrapes,
as if the air denies unanswered questions
so...

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Categories: loft, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Free verse
The Canvas
A blustery breeze blows through the half-opened window

of this secluded second story loft

 sun rays pulse upon the silken fibers of your hairs

as my once...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, love,
Form: Free verse
4 30 Am When Sheep Leap and Lay In a Heap
It's 4:30am and I can't sleep,
the sheep leap and lay in a heap,
told me they're tired and got shut eye,
even my own mind has shunned...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Unsung Heroes
What now of heroes can I speak
Who raise the mild and loft the meek
Bequeathing glory, love untold
With ne’re a thought their heart unfolds

A spirit bright...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loft, hero,
Form: Quatrain
Cracking As Broken Toys
Picking up my phone, the voice recalls my memories
Sweet talker across the line, hey... it's been a while
Days running, things change, here we are aloof...

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Categories: loft, dark, friendship, pain, old,
Form: Terzanelle

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