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Best Maintaining Poems

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


Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: maintaining, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: maintaining, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Hard of Hearing
I know that I’m not perfect, just go and ask me wife.
At times she’s kind of said - I’m the bane of her life,
but on...

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Categories: maintaining, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decision To Listen
I choose to be 
the last to speak.
Then other’s answers I can seek.
Each one of them is unique!
There is power
in embracing my meek.
When my thoughts...

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Categories: maintaining, discrimination, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lonely Lighthouse - the Sentinel
I’m a lonely lighthouse battered by the sea
Standing all alone steadfast and strong
Keeping guard for souls in difficulty
Maintaining my watch all day long

Waves exploding but...

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Categories: maintaining, nature, sea,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Go With the Flo
Go with the Flo, I've heard it said
Think I'm gonna give it a shot
What a sensual, passionate lady she is
Sure doesn't hide her plot

Always fires...

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Categories: maintaining, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Winter Bird
I was a valued, vaunted veterinarian, maintaining health for animals I loved,
As a rainbow sparkled rich colors, from the moment peach sunshine shoved.

I was dedicated...

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Categories: maintaining, bird, fantasy, friend, home,
Form: Couplet
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: maintaining, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Punctuation Crisis
Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out...

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Categories: maintaining, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystical Tides

Before me lies the ocean, with its shore,
   maintaining varied limits day and night;
at times, beyond its border, reaching more
   than...

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Categories: maintaining, emotions, feelings, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Social Justice
What a clamour
What a noise
To bring social justice
To answer the cries
That's gone on for centuries
That they keep maintaining
With promises and lies

Black lives matter
So we shout
But...

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Categories: maintaining, america, angst, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sublime Oneness
Nature constantly calls to man through wondrous colors and endless song 
As stewards of her magnificent beauty, to lend respect while yet, we're strong
Seek wisdom...

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Categories: maintaining, faith, introspection, life, natureurdu,
Form: Rubaiyat
As We Fall In Love Time and Again
As I sit here our lives about to begin
Drinking all your natural beauty in
Pulled in close to your beautiful grin
Not sure where we start to...

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Categories: maintaining, beauty, christian, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
What Do You Hope To See
He stood there like a phantom,
watching o’er a realm of mist.
I held my breath behind him,
as truth and tale kissed.

I didn’t dare reach out to...

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Categories: maintaining, art, dream, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ll Be Your Joker
7/20/19

"I'll be your Joker"


Still a registered voter
Signed up to be an organ donor
And finally became a car owner

I rarely use a controller
When it's time, I'll...

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Categories: maintaining, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs