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Best Merely Poems

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


Premium Member We Are Not Merely Poets
Some of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self, 
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...

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Categories: merely, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: merely, people,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: merely, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: merely, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: merely, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic



Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: merely, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: merely, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cradled In the Arms of Midnight
Aloft, the gem was mounted in black velvet skies
A refulgent pearl, surrounded by glistening stars
Cradled in the arms of midnight, it hung as a prize,
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: merely, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: merely, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Flower Blooms
While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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Categories: merely, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Avian Legos
...to the finessed fowl
humming by my ear      tell me
Did anyone ever tell you
just how glad they are
to have you here?

Poignant...

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Categories: merely, animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: merely, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest, Don't Quit
What happens when the moon isn't up to her best?
She takes a break,
Dozes for a while,
And comes back shining brighter than she ever did!

What happens...

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Categories: merely, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free - POTD - A Collaboration With Silent One
Last POTD for the year - 31st Dec 2017

An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending...

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Categories: merely, analogy, freedom, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lives I Have Known Potd
It has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.

My...

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Categories: merely, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet

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