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Best Oblige Poems

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


Premium Member Noblesse Oblige?
The old King took to the battle
and leapt into the fencers fray.
“Noblesse oblige” his cronies cry.
“Our King will save the day!”

He was a bull to...

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Categories: oblige, allegory, history, introspection
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ethereal Epiphany
When rainstorm shadows
cast raven woven blankets,
entangling between 
the boundaries of 
fantasy and reality's reach,
we search for soft glows
from serenades of slumber,
where we embrace
the quilt of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblige, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Freedom's Call
Forever will I long for you 
Remembering your love each day
Enabled me to make it through  
Each time I shipped away 
Do not be...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblige, america,
Form: Acrostic
Simplicity's Gifts
Cockle shell candles and firefly lights
padding the path to the woods
Grass crunched and scattered in weeds and in patterns
of the way every garden should look
Cobblestone...

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Categories: oblige, happiness, imagination, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elements Part 3: Water
I am water, precious water, the most important source 
of life on earth. Master of all shape shifters, I am ever
moving and changing my appearance....

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Categories: oblige, life, water,
Form: Personification



Party Vine
PARTY VINE

The Sweet Pea is a social climber,
behind your back, a wisenheimer.
In the night it wields its powers,
Sweet Peas strangle other flowers.

Sweet Peas think the...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblige, celebration, color, flower, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the John LOL
A funny thing happened on the way to the john,
I rounded a bend and there sat my young son
Who whined and fussed to be picked...

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Categories: oblige, funny, mother,
Form: Rhyme
I Dreamt It All
I know that I shall meet a pretty someone
	Somewhere in the shops across the mall;
	Those that I date now I do not love at all,
	The...

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Categories: oblige, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love, Love, Love
Why am I attracted to certain types of women

The ones that display that indescribable feminine trait

Demure yet with that certain openness and lust for life

Those...

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Categories: oblige, love,
Form: Narrative
Crystal Light
Shun me not for without you I'm neither rain or sky 
whilst I fold up my senses and slowly die 
life is never perfect in...

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Categories: oblige, analogy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Zen Mode
a memory trigger
which we never knew of
in active cognition
crystallises before us
seeking our indulgence
but why would we oblige
beyond giving it a nod
of recognition
before we flow on
where...

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Categories: oblige, love, memory, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member powdered city girls
(inspired by ‘Dusty Rose Dreaming’ by poet vb)

We’re powdered city girls heading into a club,
bright orchids entering the hothouse
spreading fun with noblesse oblige,
qua somethings suited...

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Categories: oblige, courage, dance, fun, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part Two - 1
Part Two


Older in age 
                    younger...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblige, inspirational, dark, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Swallow and the Sheriff
Ask a swallow why he nests
below the edge where daylight shuns
catching insects sheriffs fail to warn blue
doctrines stones emit the scent between
evisceral guardians thoughts intact
feign...

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Categories: oblige, beautiful,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Soul Surfer
"Soul Surfer" 


I bought some sea shell beads 
today, 
stood by the ocean 
while the half sharp winter wind 
washed 
through 
me 
and 
whispered stinging...

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Categories: oblige, romance,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs