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Best Oft Poems

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


Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

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Categories: oft, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Watcher
I watched a weeping willow
Dancing with a summer breeze
A timeless dance of lovers
They'd rehearsed for centuries

The zephyr would excite her
With his warm southwesterlies
She'd gently sway...

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Categories: oft, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: oft, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
For a Friend
A wise and sentimental one
              Who lived and loved some years ago
Had...

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Categories: oft, appreciation, for her, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nana's Hands
Through the years they worked their spells
     From drawers and cupboards, taking things
       That through...

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Categories: oft, appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

                 ...

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Categories: oft, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Aphrodite of the Morning Sun
Your honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…

Mane of a lioness suave...

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Categories: oft, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Floccinaucinihilipilification and Very Little Bread
Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Bread
       ( First of Three Poem Trilogy )

I

I've no problem with bardolatry fans
their barmecide and...

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Categories: oft, appreciation, art, character, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Spark In Flight
My love, the world is ours,
its reflective sapphire oceans,
its turquoise pine tree forests,
its topaz colored days,
its moonstone lit evenings.
My love, I'm certain it's us.

The amethyst...

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Categories: oft, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lady In Green POTD
I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.

Lost...

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Categories: oft, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member He and She
He swings his arms and strides ahead
     She walks three steps behind

The center of the universe
     Cares...

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Categories: oft, abuse, fear, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: oft, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: oft, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: oft, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
The Billabong
There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do...

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Categories: oft, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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