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Best Normal Service Poems

Below are the all-time best Normal Service poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of normal service poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member If You Can, Fake It, Insanity
IF YOU CAN, FAKE IT, (INSANITY)
 
If only I could re-address this un-balance within my head
Waken every morning without this inner turmoil of dread

So I...

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Categories: normal service, allegory, anxiety, conflict, identity,
Form: Couplet



Fireman Wolf Cry
Nothing but have I upon this most
of auspicious moment to give

My total unreserved apologies and
resignation 

Unto who whatsoever anybody
tuning white noise out would
surely listen

But a...

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Categories: normal service, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer
Prayer 

On Sunday, 
The saints gather…
Not the normal service, 
later, when others…
are home. 

They are quiet, 
and humble. 
They have come, 
to the house of...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normal service, addiction, christian, holocaust, how
Form: Free verse
Panic
Just witnessed a nasty incident.
So glad that it’s now over.
My hearts all a flutter as 
I’m trying to recover

At the supermarket coffee machine
Standing there on...

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Categories: normal service, fear, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Our Brains Not Designed For It
However we came into being,
Commenting on anything and everything,
I am sure was not factored in,
When it came time to give us a brain.

When it became...

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Categories: normal service, analogy, anxiety, blue, care,
Form: Didactic



A Year of Adventures Part 2
July
July saw the end of school, the kids were winding down,
We spent our holidays abroad, plenty of drinks gratis I did down.
We had some time...

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Categories: normal service, adventure, family, remember, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Rough Justice
I got mugged in Moenchengladbach
Straight up and down 
I got mugged in Moenchengladbach
In a back street of the town.

I’d been drinking with this bird,
Said she...

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Categories: normal service, adventure, drink, humor, military,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs