Best Not Yet Poems
Below are the all-time best Not Yet poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of not yet poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
not yet, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
not yet, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
You Caught the WindI remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink...
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Categories:
not yet, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise.
An...
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Categories:
not yet, life,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Tissue Boxlike visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...
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Categories:
not yet, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form:
Free verse
It Was In SeptemberIt was in September that Poetry first came to me -
a time when summer’s embers, for me had not yet caught fire
until, that is, ...
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Categories:
not yet, beauty, poetry, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Around the Corneraround the corner...just!
light brilliant...trees freshly brushed...
a breeze meandering through the grass...
a baby blue sky, an occasional cloud shaped and reshaped,
...a waterfall roars like a lion...its...
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Categories:
not yet, introspection, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Heroes
Heroes
When need arises they rise up in every town
No matter the toll it takes, they just carry on,
But not everyone will recognize who they are
For...
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Categories:
not yet, hero,
Form:
Verse
In Purple Fields We Dance Stay a little longer
come closer to my heart
Breathe dew breeze on my neck's nape
do not yet depart
Play for me bagpipe music
Blindfold all my...
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Categories:
not yet, absence, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Shadow of MeIt was a long time ago, in another age
Where the shifting of the wind
Knew where I began
A place so far away,
Somewhere distant, in childhood...
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Categories:
not yet, age, love, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
....The Title ^fight....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed
Its been a long fight....
Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw
Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows
Crowd...
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Categories:
not yet, faith, love, passion, time
Form:
I do not know?
Season of SeptemberSunlight falls in breezy dapples
across your lichened stone,
solace now I seek in chapel’s
old yard while we’re alone.
It brings my heart back, being here -
love; that...
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Categories:
not yet, appreciation, autumn, grave, grief,
Form:
Lyric
It's hard to Let Go
On Christmas day before he died,
I went home to visit my dad.
The house was full of family,
our mood was quite somber and sad.
We drifted...
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Categories:
not yet, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
not yet, africa, america, black african
Form:
Monorhyme
Death My PalDeath,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth
He liked to play games with me
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...
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Categories:
not yet, death, fear, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue