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Best No Sweat Poems

Below are the all-time best No Sweat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of no sweat poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: no sweat, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Moonlight Serenade
Blindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...

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Categories: no sweat, sensual,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Dream
Dream

My mirrored reflection silently speaks

You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal

Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of desire...

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Categories: no sweat, appreciation, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: no sweat, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: no sweat, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Shoes
My shoes have traveled miles of roads
Their soles are worn quite thin
Struggling with this heavy load
I carry deep within
Beyond repair, no longer shine
Scuffed with many...

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Categories: no sweat, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: no sweat, hope,
Form: Rhyme
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: no sweat, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Categories: no sweat, life, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Train - POTD
 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...

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Categories: no sweat, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Silence of My Lust
There was sweat on my brow, 
beads of them as I approached her. 

I was a young man, still green. 

She was a mature woman...

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Categories: no sweat, love, lust, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jazz Man
JAZZ MAN

Lips of sweat,
Igniting catalyst tune as they burn, 
Crossed eyes, attention spreads
feeling the whiteness in the pure magic
Each memo confronts the other, 
Soul cord...

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Categories: no sweat, art, music,
Form: Free verse
To Walk a Mile In Her Shoes
Would I dare 

to walk a mile in her shoes

To put my feet in cinder's slippers

 marry a handsome prince

who turns out to be another...

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Categories: no sweat, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Categories: no sweat, society, war,
Form: Ballad
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by...

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Categories: no sweat, absence, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things