Best One Thousand Poems
Below are the all-time best One Thousand poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of one thousand poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Thousand GoodbyesOne Thousand Goodbyes
Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...
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Categories:
one thousand, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Streets of BloodStreets of blood
She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow
With swine and pearls running...
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Categories:
one thousand, hate, love, peace, war,
Form:
Rhyme
- Life Behind the Mirror -Enchanting chambers made of glass
Breaking reflections shatter falling into ruin
The history behind the tears and sorrow of a heart
Fragile echoes inside truth broken always...
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Categories:
one thousand, art, beauty, blessing, life,
Form:
Free verse
I the Mirror - With a Major Contribution By Joseph May - Dramatic Free Versean impression of the world
stands before me
Left is right, and right is wrong,
and the mirror reflects a melancholy song.
i the mirror
not
the babbling brook,
or
the...
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Categories:
one thousand, conflict, dark, depression, grief,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Love She'D Lent~ MY LOVE SHE'D LENT ~
I followed her where'er she went
Lured onward by her fragrant scent
She clasped his hand, a handsome gent
How could she know...
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Categories:
one thousand, longing, love hurts, romance,
Form:
Couplet
- Beauty Is Looking Into Your Eyes and Seeing Your Heart -Twilight has it's own wings and its own melody
Battles with the mystery of a sun setting horizon dawning hues
Pearl white smile's from the moon,...
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Categories:
one thousand, beauty, feelings, heaven, romance,
Form:
Free verse
I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)
Two a.m....
I open my window
...a crack,
the dark is blinding.
It is a severe cold outside
a...
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Categories:
one thousand, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
From the Deepest Caves One Name EchoedSmiling hotly you're the flame captured underneath
burning with a sunrise golden gleam frosted
Sparkling within dewdrops crystals crash
over oceans waves rise and fall to...
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Categories:
one thousand, beautiful, flower, heart, love,
Form:
Couplet
Gettysburg HauntingsGettysburg Hauntings
When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863
Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered
Fifty-one thousand lives lost in...
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Categories:
one thousand, history, mystery, visionarywar, war,
Form:
Couplet
Dark AgesIf in one thousand years they'll ask me
What made this one so different
I'll say lust for purity
And control lingered on
Only this time...
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Categories:
one thousand, angst, history
Form:
Nonet
My Name Is ScheherazadeI do not want to die
Like each virgin you bed
When you have ravished her
It's off with pretty head
I do not want to die
But…Oh to be...
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Categories:
one thousand, history, how i feel,
Form:
Epic
Wild CherriesA giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced...
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Categories:
one thousand, devotion, nature, nostalgia, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Ten Thousand White ButterfliesTen Thousand White Butterflies
Soft walls undulate like liquid steel
Metamorphic pulsations
Iridescent glow
Spiritual guides
Ushering departed souls
Rippling contractions
From cocoon-like womb
Bringing forth new breath
Replenishing blown out candles
Eyes scrunched
Painful...
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Categories:
one thousand, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
one thousand, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Poet Destroyer Parades and CarnivalsPoet Destroyer - Parades and Carnivals
Soft feathers gather up with color
On the wind to play as friends
They come floating first above the boulevard
Kind thoughts there...
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Categories:
one thousand, adventure, celebration, celebrity, cheer
Form:
Free verse