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Best Period Poems

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


Premium Member That Period of Life
Orange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?

Senses and instincts are the same...

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Categories: period, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: period, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: period, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: period, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: period, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nevermore Will Raven Return
*Note:  A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three 
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...

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Categories: period, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Weather Forecast
December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the...

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Categories: period, humorous, life, weather, word
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: period, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between Your Words
Between Your Words

Dad
I tried my best 
to live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
smaller than small
Like a comma that didn't fit
a...

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Categories: period, abuse, angst, character, child
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Twisted Tale -Jane's Jewel-
Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"  

On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: period, adventure, celebration, dark, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Loneliness
1  LONELINESS

(Message of hope dedicated to all those that have been through such an excruciating experience.)


Loneliness:
Painful
Agonizing
Merciless 
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each...

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Categories: period, inspirational, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
I Robbed God
I was once a thief, never done for Stealing guns,
or knives. Money, laundering offences, or Somebody’s wife. 
I robbed God of tithes that I must...

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© Abraham L  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: period, faithgod, god,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Corona Virus Cov-19
CORONA VIRUS (COV-19)

The Black Death, or bubonic plague, which happened nearly 700 years ago, (in the three year period of 1347 to 1351 in which...

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Categories: period, anxiety, death, faith, fear,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unsung Verse
What's behind the terse, unspoken sound
One that abruptly inserted a period
Invoking a sigh in the middle of a sentence

Was it the uneasy voice of her...

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Categories: period, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mona Lisa's Paramour
A period of youthful vim ferments
as coruscating golden flecks in eyes 
that mesmerise and tantalise, give rise
to secrets in my breast to stir, foment.
The xanthous...

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Categories: period, art, love, valentines day,
Form: Sonnet

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