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Best Opus Poems

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


Magnum Opus
Man of words, strange creature of fiery intention,
Amplifying pictures with that restless imagination,
Great are the images spurting forth from your pen,
Nothing holds you down, working...

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Categories: opus, art, introspection, on work
Form: Acrostic



Opus
Look to me I am symphony
An uninterrupted emotional tenor
Of variable nature wherein the scale
Of humanity’s opinion mill and linger

Compositions of blithe open mornings
Tempting to even...

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Categories: opus, imagination, life, music, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic Verse
POTD 7th Mar 2018

I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem

Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste...

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Categories: opus, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: opus, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: opus, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Penning In Consummate Rhyme
Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse.
Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opus, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Composed By Our Love
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Softly the keys find a resonance pure, softly
adrift o’er a metronome stream, adrift
past the harmonies, three quarter time, past
dreamers and slumbering chords shimmered gleam, where...

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Categories: opus, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Were You An Angel
Were you an angel or just my bright star?
To me, you were best, at least better by far…

Your beauty a beacon for lost, weary souls;
your...

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Categories: opus, angel, loss, love, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winding Down From Worrying
       ~Introduction~
Sometimes our mind takes  us on a wrong turn,
And we find ourselves on Worry Boulevard.
Oh, whatever to do?

   
       " Winding...

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Categories: opus, encouraging, inspiration, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Eye Is Such a Braggart
The eye is such a braggart with its emerald this and hazel that.
Does no one dream about an ear or a nose?
(personally ... I find...

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Categories: opus, appreciation, bereavement, body, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member You Are Nothing --- As Am I
I used to think poetry was about expression
(but some it seems would rather make it a competition)
I used to think beautiful words were meant to...

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Categories: opus, anger, angst, feelings, how
Form: Verse
Vignette-Ode To Joy
Inspired by Friedrich Von Schiller’s poem,
The birth to a tumultuous...orchestral bliss.
The flicks of his wand was the rhythm he heard,
A call for dramatic attention...an extraordinary...

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Categories: opus, music
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Secret Drawer
This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I...

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Categories: opus, business, family, sad,
Form: Narrative
Heart String Sorrows
Heart String Sorrows

Sadness pulls my heart strings
with a bow of rosin’d guilt,
tear drops stain the notes upon the page

Sorrowed cello whispers
of a soundless worry wilt,
harmonies...

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Categories: opus, heartbroken, music, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Covid 19 Blues Footles
have faith      no fear
my mate        lives here


take D           clean sink
you, me         safe drink


big dope         spread fear
no hope          no cheer


  virus            command
behind us       wash hands

hydrate          end...

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Categories: opus, humor,
Form: Footle

Book: Shattered Sighs