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Best Newborn Poems

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


Premium Member The Demise of a Newborn Dragonfly
Its delicate wings no longer wet, it stretched well,
And flew up high holding onlookers in its spell.
Round and around it danced over the eerie pond
All...

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Categories: newborn, destiny,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: newborn, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: newborn, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: newborn, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Age of Poet Destroyer
A diamond in the Frost ... I am Emily, gazing through the years, 
Like Poe from rancid taste and dark smoke shadows
Florescent waste escaping a...

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Categories: newborn, community, pride, princess, strength,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: newborn, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Not Brave
How brave the amaryllis is
emerging naked from the soil,
an umber golden spear to pierce
the heresy of August air.

I am not brave like pilgrim bulbs,
though planted...

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Categories: newborn, color, flower, metaphor, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Wings of Change
Remembering when
Perched high above on rocky crags
Cliffs weathered by times handprints
I saw far and wide to distant shores
Tendrils of desire radiating outwards

Riding the briny mist...

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Categories: newborn, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Endearing
Love is an impulse fueled by the heart,
A stimulating prompt eliciting response
Invoking affinity from halo of its soul~
Sense it, feel it, touching depth of core;
Harmonious,...

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Categories: newborn, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Toddler Sky
-Toddler Sky-

Down where I sleep, 
You hold me, embrace my every way
The Marks up on my skin
You caress, taking away from the ugliness

Watching the simple...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: newborn, blue, body, childhood, how
Form: Free verse
Love Is
Love is a rainbow mirrored in the sky
Its free, its beautiful and tells no lies

A gleaming reflection
Upon the still of a pond
The dewy mist on...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: newborn, beautiful, devotion, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: newborn, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Saw the Great and Mighty Wave
I Saw The Great And Mighty Wave


I saw the great and mighty wave
As it came,
The emerald glistening of its heart,
A chasing spasm under blue-lit sky
Dawn's...

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Categories: newborn, art, deep, emotions, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: newborn, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: newborn, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

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