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Best Passer By Poems

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


They'Re Lovers
See how the ocean glides back in to kiss the shore?
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Categories: passer by, beach, beauty, blessing, heaven,
Form: Villanelle



I Wish To Be
I wish to be the gentle breeze
Sweeping tearful eyes
Of the weary midday flower.
Or to be the horrid shadow
Casting fearful darkness
For a passer-by to rest.
A rippling...

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Categories: passer by, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Angel
They needed help
Walking alone in the dark.
The man.
The child.
A broken down car.
The child frightened,
But not understanding
The terror
That would soon
Come her way.
Her parents petrified
That their baby...

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Categories: passer by, angel, child, courage, dad,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member B-R-E-A-T-H - of - L-O-V-E
B-R-E-A-T-H -  OF -  L-O-V-E


Summer sun or winter freeze pulls heartstrings in trapeze. . .
Cotton soft to gnarled callus vows have thread along...

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Categories: passer by, inspiration, life, love, relationship,
Form: Quintain (English)
I Am a Bitterweed
I enjoy turning the cow's milk sour
as they graze on me hour by hour
Simply because the farmers you see
Run their tractors straight over me! 

I...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passer by, identity,
Form: Rhyme



Vase Dream - C'Est La Vie
Vase Dream - c'est la vie 

White vase with no design
Dangling there - c'est la vie 
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything
In an...

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Categories: passer by, adventure, change, fun, happy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Wilderness Is a Crowded Street
Wilderness is a crowded street.

Silence stings the ears of the hearer,
Cacophony of sound, unheard.
Loneliness turns to solitude,
Converse without a word.

Wilderness is a crowded street.
A passer-by...

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Categories: passer by, business, career, city, class,
Form: Quatrain
Contagious
She smiled at him on the stairwell
He smiled at the man at the door,
He in turn said "Good Morning"
To the lady sweeping the floors.

She nodded...

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Categories: passer by, people, smile,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In My Life's Peaceful Interlude
In My Life’s Peaceful Interlude

Midlife for me was a peaceful interlude.
After my children left the nest,
there had been a climax of sorts.
Poetry had come; it...

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Categories: passer by, life,
Form: Free verse
Coffee At the Brassiere
Sitting having coffee at the classy Brassiere
Everyone is laughing, and they’re speaking niceties
Isn’t it lovely just to sit and chitter chat
Instead of being me in...

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Categories: passer by, people, me, men,
Form: Rhyme
One Hundred Christmas Dinners
The birth of Jesus is the cause for us to celebrate.
No Frankincense and Myrrh; we’ve learned a different trait.
Some celebrate in splendour the manger and...

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Categories: passer by, christmas, heartbroken,
Form: Lyric
Red Riding In the Hood
The woods hissed and sn*ggered but weren't without their charms 
A ghostly silloette in the distance like a girl without her arms 
A floating figure,...

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Categories: passer by, change, surreal,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Speechless Part 1
As scented air aroused my misty mind,
her shadow broke the early morning sun.
Aromas wafting from the morning grind
seduced a thought that she may be the...

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Categories: passer by, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
He walks through  murky puddles cobble stone
    City full of busy sounds and movements
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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passer by, imagery, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: passer by, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs