Best Opened Poems
Below are the all-time best Opened poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of opened poems written by PoetrySoup members
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
opened, age, cat, endurance, life,
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:
opened, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
opened, i love you, life,
Form:
Shape
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:
opened, death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
A Winter Rose - a SonnetI walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose
Its beauty...
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Categories:
opened, rose, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
GrandpaThe old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.
He gazed upon a little...
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Categories:
opened, childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form:
Couplet
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
opened, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
opened, philosophy,
Form:
Shape
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
opened, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
opened, america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
opened, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
opened, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Unseen Rainbow
I've never ever seen her face,
but in my mind, she's the color of love
Black
strong like dark coffee
She wakes you up early in the morning,
gives...
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Categories:
opened, allusion, beauty, love, rainbow,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Evening DewWhen twilight's spectral fingers fold
Sweet blossoms of every hue;
Some half opened bud will hold
Its pearls of evening dew.
Touched with every sunshine hour
The eternal earth has...
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Categories:
opened, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
I Think of You - Where You Bloom - 4A transparent melody paints the walls
in the coloured scent of fresh linen.
The changing of sheets in the morning air
can not erase our dance from evening...
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Categories:
opened, introspection,
Form:
Free verse