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Best Penned Poems

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


Premium Member Poet In Recluse
I 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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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penned, emotions, solitude,
Form: Rubaiyat



Premium Member Words - the Heart of Imagination
This seasoned evening
sported a full faced 
Orange Kool-Aid moon.

Fully aware it was a marvel
it shot me an arrogant wink.

Not once but twice.

I think i heard it laugh.

It...

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Categories: penned, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: penned, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: penned, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The World As Seen Through a Poet's Pen
A bright array of rainbow hues
      adorns the parchment now and then,
   and gives a glimpse of writer’s...

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Categories: penned, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: penned, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Words For Simple People
If I  had a pretentious brain
which acts faster than my heart
Maybe then,I would abhore this soul
which spreads freely through each verse
Maybe then I would...

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Categories: penned, analogy, beach, beautiful, books,
Form: Prose
Premium Member You Cry Alone
"laugh and the world laughs with you,
cry and you cry alone"

how true and sad these words once penned
for this I've learned, yet learn again
that when...

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Categories: penned, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Kiss Loneliness Goodbye Written By Tim Smith and Seren
I sit here and ponder the days that have past
The many loves that I had, that just didn’t last.
One really sticks out, wish I had...

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Categories: penned, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like a Moth To a Flame
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Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece...

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Categories: penned, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Alpha To Omega
ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul...

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Categories: penned, friendship,
Form: Free verse
On Poetry Soup
 A first day on Soup is filled with much awe
The wonderful poems will make you smile
Easy is it to fall for all
Some enabled my...

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Categories: penned, friend, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Among Butterflies Sought
Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open...

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Categories: penned, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

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Categories: penned, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: penned, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs