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Best Look Around Poems

Below are the all-time best Look Around poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of look around poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Daddy
Daddy

Daddy, why did you go away?
Don't you know I wanted you to stay!

Daddy, when you left mom,
Don't you know you left me too?
Now all I...

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Categories: look around, blue, dad, depression, father
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Dream Weaved
Your tapestry 
weaved with strands of light
Contrasted with threads of black
A marvelous mosaic 
of a wondrous soul

I drape you over me
Feel your warmth
am nurtured
I hear...

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Categories: look around, beautiful, celebration, for her,
Form: Free verse
Forty Today
Visited you today
as the sun set in the horizon…

the orange tinged carnations 
were a perfect complement 
for the skies
and for you… 
orange and blue
always remind...

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Categories: look around, brother, dedication, family, life,
Form: Free verse
only a thought away
"only a thought away"

only a thought away
to see you
to hear you
to feel you
still I search

with all memories
never faded
never gone
my eyes see 
my mind feels

as I...

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© Lisa Ricci  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: look around, bereavement, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Colors of Happy
The Colours of Happy

I am the painter of happy
Traveling along life's dark streets
listening for the beat
Feeling hidden colors with my feet

I see the beauty 
beyond...

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Categories: look around, adventure, beautiful, blue, celebration,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Maria Down Under
There’s endless miles of golden sandy beaches
Sparkling aqua waters as far as the eye can see
Gods and Goddesses frolic au naturel down under
Here’s where Heaven...

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Categories: look around, beach, lust, satire, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Human Rights Today
For centuries, minorities have fought
to gain their human rights. How can it be
that even now so many folks do not
feel safe in “civilized” society?

And one...

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Categories: look around, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Things We Gain
We overthink the things we lose
but overlook the things we gain
ever mourning fire and flood
never praising gentle rain

We sidestep blessings every day
to favor troubles with...

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Categories: look around, blessing, hope, life, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Quiet Saturday Night
Another quiet Saturday night...
the silence is deafening
as I sit alone lost in my thoughts.

I feel a chill in the air...
raindrops are gently tapping
against the window...

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Categories: look around, loneliness, memory, missing you,
Form: Free verse
I'M Going Home
In every situation ~ no matter the complication ~ Reach out ~ He's the 

One you can be sure of...


I will Survive ~ Faith ~...

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Categories: look around, blessing, god, inspirational, song,
Form: Lyric
Before the End
Sunflowers and dandelions. 
Sometimes in life it's a fine line.
We go outside to breathe the air.
Look around, try not to stare.

The little children play and...

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Categories: look around, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: look around, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: look around, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Caveman Speaking
You ask me why I live in cave
Caveman not want to be a slave
I take a chance and look around
I see that people act like...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: look around, change, crazy, life, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Changing Scenery
~

Amidst the changing scenery
as faces come and go
Names reflect the differences
of those we’ve come to know

Along a winding avenue
where store fronts sell their wares
Traffic lights...

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Categories: look around, love,
Form: Rhyme

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