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
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
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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Categories:
oblige, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom's CallForever 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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Categories:
oblige, america,
Form:
Acrostic
Simplicity's GiftsCockle 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
Elements Part 3: WaterI 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 VinePARTY 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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Categories:
oblige, celebration, color, flower, happiness,
Form:
Light Verse
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the John LOLA 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 AllI 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
Love, Love, LoveWhy 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 LightShun 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
Zen Modea 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
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
Categories:
oblige, inspirational, dark, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Swallow and the SheriffAsk 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
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