Best Other Half Poems
Below are the all-time best Other Half poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of other half poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
other half, health, heart,
Form:
Concrete
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
other half, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
A Smile AppearedSilently, I sat by,
To listen to the sounds of the world,
Of all the voices that touched me most,
Were those caught in the angelic wind,
For all...
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Categories:
other half, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
other half, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
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:
other half, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
other half, i love you, life,
Form:
Shape
Poet In RecluseI relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your...
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Categories:
other half, emotions, solitude,
Form:
Rubaiyat
In Strangler's WoodIn forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
silent shadows waver...
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Categories:
other half, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The View From a WindowA view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...
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Categories:
other half, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Artillery Rain~Perfect Rain~
I can see!
All the tribulations around
A rage against the burning wind
Nobody hears the crackling sounds in my voice
Everybody avoids feeling the smoke hidden within
A...
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Categories:
other half, art, deep, earth, fire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
other half, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
other half, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
listen to life -
have you not heard me?
borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
still, you...
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Categories:
other half, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find HopeIn A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
(The Solemn Prayer)
Raining splashing, fierce winds...
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Categories:
other half, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the SkiesI see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...
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Categories:
other half, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form:
Lyric