Best Once Poems
Below are the all-time best Once poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of once poems written by PoetrySoup members
Cinder GirlAn ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames...
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Categories:
once,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
once, death, love, rose,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
once, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
once, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
once, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Forgotten Heroes of the SommeOver the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...
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Categories:
once, brother, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
once, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
once, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
once, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...
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Categories:
once, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
once, autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's ValentineWouldn't you rather~
Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...
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Categories:
once, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"
Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...
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Categories:
once, death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
once, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
once, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration