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Best Outdoing Poems

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


Premium Member I Want To Live
I want to live
Not to focus on the end
Or on ENDING it
Not to see what’s wrong but right
Try to see beyond darkness to light
I want...

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Categories: outdoing, hope, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member A Christmas Snow
Follow me and walk down an avenue of Firs
To my Log Cabin you'll view, I'm sure you'll concur

Overlooking Loch Ness, look in the fields you'll...

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Categories: outdoing, beautiful, christmas, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, Sitting
So many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing 
January's record accumulation.

Weeks of hour...

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Categories: outdoing, death, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The All-Time Greatest Great Britain
This small island civilization,
its empire was the largest creation,
with the widest trade connection,
there are mixed views of our colonization.

Many modern countries exist because of the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outdoing, england, freedom, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Cockroach Concert
All thanks to William Wordsworth, one of our greats

I wandered in my kitchen round
floating high on cocaine broaches
all at once guess what I found
a nest...

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Categories: outdoing, parody,
Form: Rhyme



Paul Valery Translation of Secret Ode
PAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”

“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set,...

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Categories: outdoing, dance, french, night, sea,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To the Anti-Apocalyptophobiacs of the World
after all the idiots who followed Camping
found themselves up ****’s crick
after May of 2011 &
after all the morons hoping & “praying”
that they would get a...

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Categories: outdoing, life, people, people,
Form: Free verse
Ink
Strokes of pungent ink,
outdoing realities,
recovering the soul....

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Categories: outdoing, anxiety, art, beauty, creation,
Form: Haiku
Imagine
Imagine the most successful version of you.
Imagine something that can actually come true.
Imagine all that success and what it would do.
Imagine all the failure that...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outdoing, life, philosophy, success,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Building Back Broke
Inflation rages
       Outdoing wages

       Stock Market tanked
      ...

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Categories: outdoing, america, poverty,
Form: Monorhyme
Dream On
This life ain't right, so I'll just dream on/
Of you, our sex is on fire, I'm a king of Leon/
With you everything is just so...

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Categories: outdoing, beautiful, desire, dream, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Survival
Survival is a progressively efficient viral machine outdoing all competition. 

Survival is an effortless, yet taxing, mediocrity sweetened by gratification.

Today Survival is a swirl of...

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Categories: outdoing, i am, life, society,
Form: I do not know?
Love
love is tender, love is kind
it's the magic, hard to find
love means sharing,all your fears
sometimes it makes you shed tears
love is to fulfill your dreams
it's...

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Categories: outdoing, inspirational, love, passion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member R I V E R
RIVER
 ———————————- 
My trail comes to face a wide river
With no bridges to be seen under these
   evergreens —
Outdoing one another in height.
No...

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Categories: outdoing, imagery, memory, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Thrill Is Gone
Many years ago, the thrill of traveling was
special to us, mostly in the summer months.
We planned to visit sites never seen before-
			   ...

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Categories: outdoing, how i feel, travel,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Book: Shattered Sighs