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Best Obliging Poems

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


Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: obliging, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Autumn Farewell
Going out of his way, the obliging taxi driver drives to the top of the hill.
      A young man gets...

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Categories: obliging, emotions,
Form: Haibun
Brewing Sunsets In Teapots
I brew sunsets in teapots
I drink the dawn from a mug
and in my bicycle basket I have seduction in a jug
so now and then I...

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Categories: obliging, celebration, freedom, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Postcard View
Proudly she stands on slopes covered in snow
One graceful woodland deer her eyes aglow
She strikes a pose unmoving, head held high
Twitching her ears as flapping...

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Categories: obliging, beauty, nature, winter,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Harry Horsman
Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.

Susan Ashly…we can only hope...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obliging, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Angels
Heedless of rejection
standard smile ever so sweet,
childhood void of substance
youth lost in everlasting grief.
It is not from choice to serve
the world’s ancient art,
although somewhat obliging
never,...

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Categories: obliging, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Resolve
Blue melancholy stalks today
To wheedle me with sulking voice
But rather than to fall its prey
I instead resolve to rejoice

And celebrate this blessed life,
Obliging not this...

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© David Bose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obliging, happiness, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Few Consoling Words To My Vacuum Cleaner
Yes, I know, it’s not Saturday, 
the day I usually take you from your
dark closet to clean the rugs. 

I thought I’d have a friendly...

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Categories: obliging, solitude,
Form: Light Verse
Her Only Way Out
Rejected
Defected
A hopeless case
Lost, drifting
Vanished without a trace
Sorrowing, woeful
Mired in despair
Anguished
Frustrated 
Tearing out fistfuls of her hair
Lonely, yearning
Trapped in solitude
Hoping for a pitying hand
To raise her...

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Categories: obliging, angst, death, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member La Paloma
The splayed light of an obliging red sunset
lays upon the darkening meadow
of windswept grass
Slow-moving fingers in a visible dance 
wrap in quiet space
when moonlight silhouettes...

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Categories: obliging, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Civilization
Ancient 
~*~*~*~*~*Beliefs
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Cultivate
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Distinguishable
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Entities
~*~*~*~*~*Fortify
Genuine
~*~*~*~*~*Harmonic
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Ideas
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Justifying
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Kindredship
~*~*~*~*~*Mentoring
Nurturing
~*~*~*~*~*Obliging
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Perseverance
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Qualifies
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Respect
~*~*~*~*~*Strengthening
Transcends
~*~*~*~*~*Ultimate
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Victory
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Wellsprings
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Xenial
~*~*~*~*~*Yonder
Zeal...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obliging, adventure, community, culture, destiny,
Form: ABC
Another Chicken Story
A determined chicken collector and her obliging spouse
Reside in a small town, inside a quaint sort-of HEN house
High upon a mountain top covered with melting...

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Categories: obliging, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
My City
I live in a city of  a Indian state
where you can discern refreshing greeneries, that accommodate
the kingfishers,Rollers,peacocks,snakes and white cranes
Although rice is the major...

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Categories: obliging, culture, identity, tamil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thrift Shop Foreshadowing
Thrift Store Foreshadowing
                      ...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obliging, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Through the Valley
They have been hiking  for a lifetime  landing upon harsh rocks and dry land, 
ragged and torn battered and bruised they are not...

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Categories: obliging, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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