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Best Masterly Poems

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


The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: masterly, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Lure of Sailing
Out at sea, serene and soothing,
on a sheet of lapis lazuli,
a graceful forward motion,
kissing the coast line,
sailing at high speed,
skimming over the salty waters,
the breeze...

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Categories: masterly, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Name Is Enticement
In the Middle East, far south of Sweden,                 ...

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Categories: masterly, christian, evil, faith, god,
Form: Personification
An Angel In Disguise
and deep I went, to the master's pit,
a leech, a brand-fire, saw I lit,  then
down among the throbbing roar, there 
stood a spectre, drenched...

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Categories: masterly, angel, bible, conflict, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vermillion Twilight
Brilliant brushstrokes of a masterly mind,
                   ...

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Categories: masterly, sun, sunset,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Telling You No Lie
Prism
multi, colored
infinity, internally, spinning
Located in the pituitary gland
masterly, universally, implanted
seeing, freeing
prison...

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Categories: masterly, love, peace,
Form: Diamante
The Elegant Eagle and Watchful Wolf
My soul surrenders and soars like the elegant eagle
As my mind melds of the wolves wildly witted
Experiencing mother earth thru the eye of the needle
Frolicking...

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Categories: masterly, adventure, analogy, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Beat Goes On
Grandma was German raised to value beauty,
her art found in nature the flowers and the trees. 
Grandpa, a Wentworth, from an English family
whose Great Grand...

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Categories: masterly, life, nostalgia, on work
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member She Exits the Shower, Again
She exits the shower
As I towel her down
Her long blond hair
Skin so brown
 
With her back to me
In masterly strokes
Every part I caress
Her wanting stokes
...

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Categories: masterly, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Better Be
Better be a joker than a depressed man.
Better be kind and compassionate than an evil man.
Better be a good man than a bad man.

Better live...

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Categories: masterly, confusion, corruption, humanity, political,
Form: Free verse
The Mask
Truth is we hide yourself lest others know
Hiding ourselves to make others happier
Everyone has their own problems to face

Masterly I give you the answer you...

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Categories: masterly, cheer up, depression,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Scarlet Sunset
brilliant brushstrokes of a masterly mind
                   ...

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Categories: masterly, ocean, sunset,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Miss You Only If You Miss My Smile
I miss you only if you miss my smile
I desire you only if you like my style
I always do my best and will continue to...

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Categories: masterly, cute love, freedom, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Natural Soporific Narcotic
recurrent suicidal thoughts vain
     gloriously wend 
     (o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
   ...

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Categories: masterly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Never Alone
Ascending at a very rapid pace*;
Making haste from the pit below.
Soon there arrived a knocking at my door,
as I imagined something rotten to the core.
But...

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Categories: masterly, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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