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Best Mainstay Poems

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


I Know He Loves Me
I found him at the entrance of my youth and still,    
as the friendship bloomed freely that summer day
beneath a sincere sky...

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Categories: mainstay, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Prey On the Moment
There is a moment that stalks my solitude
the one where my soul breaks from your absence,
it lurks with the confidence of apocalyptic attitude,
from my fortitude...

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Categories: mainstay, appreciation, destiny, feelings, future,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mainstay, age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Total Eclipse Experience
Dragon took his penguins aloft to view the eclipse on that fine day.
They were careful to use the special viewing glasses as their mainstay.
The penguins...

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Categories: mainstay, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
A Qarinage Poem - the Clocks Ticking
Natures fields, plains, moors, deserts, wonders rife!
Habitats alive,
where life can survive!
Why? Civilised beings murdered all life!
For personal greed!
Used slaves to set seed!
Natures plan, the survival...

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Categories: mainstay, nature, pollution,
Form: Rhyme



Words Stringing Out and About
I
Your writing takes me higher, to a brighter day
Response: Your words, too, doth reader repay
II
Sad and poignant, yet depression held at bay
In good and bad...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mainstay, appreciation, character, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alpha Centauri
Will you believe if only humans exist?
I'm sure everyone has wondered.
Our solar system is in a difficult stage.
It has several different types of stars. 
Planets, the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mainstay, adventure, color, confusion, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guile Entity
Posit the guile entity
The lost, enters without warning
Mostly death, but severed hearts
Also are placed within its hands
A signifier of painful art
Worshipped by the insane
But longed...

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Categories: mainstay, anxiety, death, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cactus In Bloom
As Hedgehog-type cactus in bloom,
With claret-cup desert perfume;
Red-orange petals
On top of nettles-
I guard with my sharp, thorny, broom.

I'm hardy, resistant to clime
In weather where sunshine...

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Categories: mainstay, metaphor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Agamas
Scriptures rich with esoteric wisdom deep
Each has it’s validity
Yet without direct knowing, words are cheap
For where’s the certainty 
That there’s the Trinity

Allowing that sages have...

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Categories: mainstay, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCHXfkGOIw

One day we'll all go to the other side of the world 
where the moon is launched near the stars unfurled  
We will assemble...

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Categories: mainstay, appreciation, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kismet
“That ego residue of past be shorn ~
We are time and again, on earth reborn”
~ quote by poet


Linear time sounds love's chime,
that soul may heavenward...

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Categories: mainstay, fate, life, love,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Mexican
Mexican petunia
Magical nectar drips
Monarch butterflies drink
Maintaining their body
Majestically fills  
Magnifico for you
Mainstay for fall beauty   ...

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Categories: mainstay, nature,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Zen Mode
when the pendulum swings
does not our attention sway
or are we vibrant within the storm
with love and light our mainstay

to be poised in tranquil calm
is this...

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Categories: mainstay, silence, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Poetically Pathetic Crow
Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad...

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Categories: mainstay, lonely, longing, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs