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Best Overall Poems

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


Premium Member A Glimpse


guilty as charged
i stole it tall
every consonant 
every vowel
every word
every sentence 

plagiarized 

the ocean
in its unique shades of blues and greens
combined and blended to create
its...

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Categories: overall, beauty, celebration, character, creation,
Form: Free verse



An Unfolded Whisper
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A lilac endeavor
of promised importance
came strolling along
on a path in the sun
Its fragrance unfurling
this side of September
when springtime was singing
for winter was done
With meadowlarks chatting
in...

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Categories: overall, fun, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cosmos Configurator
When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Categories: overall, fantasy, space, old, star,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Letter Sent
I am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy...

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Categories: overall, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Omnipotent: He Knows All
OMNIPOTENT: HE KNOWS ALL


I know today, at this time
You... my son(man), may not wholly know me. 
but, may I ask you...

Have you   taken...

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Categories: overall, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Ending of the Show
Have you ever listened to the silence?
Alone in the giant trees
Have you ever experienced your soul?
Being totally at ease
Have you ever stood atop a volcano?
Felt...

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Categories: overall, devotion, introspection, life, loveme,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Why Can'T We All Just Get Along
“Why can't we all just get along”
Rodney King once uttered these words
As current today as it was back then
Our “head in the sand” thinking, it...

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Categories: overall, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tree In My Yard
in my yard stands a tree
lone like a hermit, regal like a monarch
its roots dug deep
its branches touching the heavens
peeking behind the skies veil
sometimes its...

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Categories: overall, beautiful, environment, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am
I AM
 
      I am righteous and rational: God’s bliss.          ...

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Categories: overall, appreciation, encouraging, how i
Form: List
Premium Member From Now On - Reflection On Retirement
From now on 
Mornings will never be the same

How fortunate I feel
Can’t take it for granted
Everyday I am thankful
Not rich but enough to get by

Free...

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Categories: overall, change, future, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 7
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7

Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose  

In praise of Janushirasana


There are many Asanas 
And postures in Yoga
Full of...

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Categories: overall, art, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Big Apple
I made a trip to New York
and surely looked like a dork
staring at the sky
scrapery so high
(and sometimes ogled a nork*)

I took a walk to...

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Categories: overall, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The True Meaning of Life
In the overall scheme of things

What matters most in life

It's the love of another human being

The total commitment between two hearts

That indescribable connection

When you recognize...

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Categories: overall, life,
Form: Narrative
If Love........
If love is sharing,
Heartfelt caring
Always being by someone's side.
If love is giving
Knowing the joy of living 
A deep down feeling of pride.
If love is heart...

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Categories: overall, loveheart, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Trophy's Atrophy
for it, the hot-blooded campus youth
   booed and cheered, fought and cheated;

      adrift in the hysteria of intramural...

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Categories: overall, nostalgia, places, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

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