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Best Matches Poems

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


Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: matches, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Sunny Horizons - POTD
POTD 20 Dec 2018

Like sand in an hour glass
Time moves so fast
A precious commodity
Not meant to last

Measured in hours
Minutes unfold
Time waits for no man
So I’ve...

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Categories: matches, appreciation, farewell, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A COLD WINTERs STEAMY
The staticky-stars climax under intense blanket of Winter glow.
Your spouse can’t see your spirited green eyes that burn slow.

The friction of campfire sticks, the satiny...

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Categories: matches, metaphor, sensual, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Burning Flame of Life
Arise and fall; the cycle of life; birth and death are human plight.

A life is lit and it burns short; when matches struck bring in...

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Categories: matches, inspiration, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Your reflection is a liar
It makes no confessions 
The image reaches within
Cold fingers claw at your mind
A mirrored smile
Taunts you
Haunts you
No words spoken
Yet you hear...

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Categories: matches, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member IF ONLY YOU KNEW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If Only You Knew...
…how much I love you
          It is more than you think—

…how I besiege...

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Categories: matches, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brave New World
"Brave New World"


In a Clear Blue World
spirits strike matches
inner flames capture
dancing magnetised
towards intimate 
Shining Light
melting like 
liquid diamonds
Ultra Muses 
fusing bright
magic lyrics 
healed compositions
mirrors merge...

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Categories: matches, baptism, destiny, future, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Queen of Hearts
I waited for a man with no cards up his sleeve

one who dated with sincerity

hoping, believing

searching for a beau to cast a royal flush

I seek...

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Categories: matches, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaving Wales
Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,	
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,	
the soil I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matches, leaving, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Remember Me
Remember Me

Cold wet coastal today
I escaped
Sat myself behind a sanctuary
The rain beating rhythms
On window panes
Hot coffee and brandy
Warm inside The Athena Café

Radio spends its missed...

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Categories: matches, loverain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Second Delay
Hesitation
Just a moments delay
Lives change forever
Trajectory altered 
Heading to the unknown
Why? Why?
I so liked my routine
The unchanging gives me security
Makes me feel safe
I like to...

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Categories: matches, introspection, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Is a Four Letter Word: a Collaboration With Unknown
Form: Acrostic
Look in your eyes unveils a smoldering ember that could make Gibraltar crumble.
One in a million heart that magically kindles fire without matches. Nothing...
Ventured,...

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Categories: matches, adventure, community, drug,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Having Enough-Remembering Thanksgiving
I awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced...

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Categories: matches, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Runaway With Me
Would you pack up and run away with me if I were to ask you to today?
Would you throw aside all the past? The turbulence...

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Categories: matches, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Streetlights
The daylight hours start to fade and die
Darkness creeps upon us like a stalking black cat
Streetlights flank both sides of the road 
Looming large like...

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Categories: matches, light,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs