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Best Next Stop Poems

Below are the all-time best Next Stop poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of next stop poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: next stop, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative



On a Train To "dreamendon"
Fingers tapping....

Upon the windows pane

To a certain rhythm inside

Inside, as the colors and the sights

Out of concious mind

Quickly pass me by

Contemplating deeply, I suppose

Heaven knows....

While...

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Categories: next stop, faith, life, love, visionarybeautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Window Pain
Three states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a...

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Categories: next stop, addiction, anger, anxiety, child
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Cotswolds Walk and a Ploughmans Lunch
This morning I went for a country stroll
Saw greenery of summer at its best
But off road walking had taken its toll
So the next stop was...

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Categories: next stop, food, nature, summer,
Form: Sonnet
A Moral Dilemma
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his...

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Categories: next stop, philosophy,
Form: Verse



Dancing With the Devil
Dancing With The Devil




Black postered silence as the shadows lights dance
A dark and sadistic waltz with evils romance

Unscented dead roses, bouquet of dried thorn
Grave ravens...

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Categories: next stop, dance, dark, deep,
Form: Couplet
The Tale of the Williwonk
The Williwonk rose from its hibernating sleep
And jumped up in joy with a sinuous leap.
Time for some mischief, he mischievously said,
I'll shake up Manvile and...

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Categories: next stop, children, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Voyage
The tempest rages, tossing longboats high -
It’s better than a ‘straw death’ way to die.
But is the cause the writhing Midgard snake?
Are Aegir and his...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: next stop, adventurehope,
Form: Rhyme
Good and Evil
...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He...

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Categories: next stop, inspirational, people, people,
Form: Verse
New Song New Start
A New Song a New Start
written by Magneeta Sojourner
As the day and weeks ran behind me
looking for the truth
no answers to my questions
though I’d sifted...

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Categories: next stop, allusion, destiny, freedom, leaving,
Form: Ballad
My Walkabout...
The nights were long
and my days seem short
had to do something
so I left my port

A one-way ticket
on a greyhound bus
a compelling journey
inner feeling must trust

first...

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Categories: next stop, adventure, introspection, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shutter Speed Contest
Next Stop F-stop 2.8

Got to get out of the city,
if you want to see the galaxy.
(Be sure to grab your camera on your way out...

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Categories: next stop, angst,
Form: I do not know?
Transport For London Shaman
The TFL Shaman- A Journey Home.

Raindrops trickle down the misty train windows,
Obscuring views of coloured graffiti,
Works of passion sprayed on to embankment walls.
Bright colours splattered...

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Categories: next stop, blessing, forgiveness, journey, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Conversations On a Train
We are all headed in the same direction.
We are all travelers.
Why then, with this one way ticket, 
must we detour?

Why do we lose focus
of what...

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Categories: next stop, humanity, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come Aboard
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion.
It is our next stop.
You can have the window seat if you want.
But it’s a sad view.
...

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Categories: next stop, introspection, travel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs