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Best Performing Poems

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


Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: performing, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dragonflies Dancing
Sunlight sparkles on the shimmering pond
its mirror like surface smooth as silk
dragonflies dance across the water 
performing aerial acrobatics like a circus in the air

Water...

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Categories: performing, beauty, dance, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: performing, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Twilight Composers - Repost
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Here on the night before yesterday’s dream,
twilight composers retreat
Laughing at whispers a’ flow on the stream,
happily taking a seat

Practicing meadowlark lyrics to sing,
strumming a toadstool...

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Categories: performing, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: performing, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Panorama of Primrose Promises
 In the valley 
    of violin vines,
    when the saffron sun ascends,
and crooning clouds 
   drift...

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Categories: performing, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: performing, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tribute
This is a well deserved tribute that I'd like to share
For those wonderful people working in our health care
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and admin staff too...

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Categories: performing, people, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unassailable Purity
Music and romance are camarilla comrades,
just like poems are my shield and arrows.
But not all lullabies of lovers,
harmonise like a street choir of angels.
If love...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performing, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Komorebi
i Trees

A kaleidoscope cathedral rustling,
hustling life-light into every thinning limb.
Earth-emblems embalming every rogue
marauding cell in resin. Violent poppies
dripping blood-petals on never-ending war.
Wood knots are eyes,...

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Categories: performing, imagery, light, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Belly Dancer

.........The Belly Dancer.........

Stood beside her teacher on the stage.
Young, brunette. Hip hugger magenta 
jeans and a short bandana shoulder 
less top...
Her young heart leapt with...

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Categories: performing, dance, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feathered Enchantment
In a room that once commanded great respect,
stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation.
There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings
and laughter rolling through the...

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Categories: performing, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Be the Poem
the world craves
more artists
creative souls
sensitive antennas
conceptual skills
performing arts
artisans of beauty
painters
crafters
poets
musicians
dancers
the world craves
more expression
more love
more magic

your life is your gift
back to the universe

be the poem
that moves...

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Categories: performing, beauty, dance, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Featherless Angels
Reverence heard, a compassionate sound of solemn word,
Resounds mercy of utmost goodwill, aura-divine spurred,
Performing deeds of beneficence, defying malevolence; 
An epistle of angels on earth...

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Categories: performing, angel, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happiness
Happiness exist simply because,
Happiness is as happiness does.

Some find happiness within a flower.
Others find happiness in their power.

Some find happiness in their clothes.
Others find happiness...

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Categories: performing, happiness
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things