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Best Motioned Poems

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


Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: motioned, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Yesterday Smile
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She woke with the joy of her yesterday smile,
her eyes opened up to the day
The morning sun rose in its wonderful style,
bright apricot beams on...

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Categories: motioned, good morning, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Boston Tea Party Prelude
Tonight as candles flicker, she is sitting at the table
where her husband sat (before he passed away),
working on his daily crossword puzzles, 
seeming most content...

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Categories: motioned, husband,
Form: Prose
The Train Ride
Ruth and her six year old daughter Annie, were moving along the countryside by Train. Ruth was reminiscing.  She was staring deeply into her...

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Categories: motioned, anxiety, jewish, love, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Secret Music
The green blades sway in sync.
In unison the leaves do dance.
The lilly pads bop as the water laps.
Hedgerows are captured in a misty trance.

The secret...

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Categories: motioned, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Craigie Manor
Within the Craigie Mile a manor house stands
Under sheeted rain and surrounded by shrouding fog
One night as Hell sang in the sky
A lady did run...

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Categories: motioned, dark, dream, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Putting On the Ritz
I pulled up to the Stork Club in a bright Red Coupe Deville. I must admit I felt a bit of pride as I tossed...

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Categories: motioned, blessing, chicago, cool, crazy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest, 
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and...

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Categories: motioned, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Epic
Never Dream Within a Dream
-honestly...I have no clue why...-

As I began to rest in my fickle dream
Suddenly I was stirred from my sleep
I was greeted by many a whisker
And...

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Categories: motioned, adventure, analogy, animal, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sing No Canticle For Me
I hardly noticed the first tiny crack, 
through the deluge of tears I cried.
Perhaps too numb to feel the sting of pain
or the fissure exposing...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: motioned, courage, emotions, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member but a moment -
"Hurry!"
"Hurry, you've gotta see this!"
She yelled at me from a hundred yards down the beach ...
So I ran, barefooted, as fast as I could to...

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Categories: motioned, appreciation, love, passion, romance,
Form: Prose Poetry
Harboring Dreams Beneath the Surface
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Silence, on waves of our tide motioned heartbeats,
cascading rhythms, a smooth metronome
Keeping this time inside blue water passions,
beneath the surface, the feelings we’ve grown

Hidden so...

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Categories: motioned, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Palisades Park
A rodent in the road

Jammed into my  tires

As I screeched to a halt,

Then bolted past

Remembering a deer

In the headlights

A victim underneath me

Forever frozen in...

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Categories: motioned, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaids Are Real
NOT For contest, wrote this on the beach today and realised I'd wrote over the 20 line max, thought I'd post it anyway.



What follows reads...

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Categories: motioned, boat, family, sea,
Form: Narrative
Drenched of Hell's Insanities
Drenched of hell’s insanities 



Sending chills this tortured spine, 
as aches precede the worded fiction
Sorted truth does rest sublime 
beneath the light of benediction
Broken dreams...

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Categories: motioned, dark, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs