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Best Person Poems

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

Conversation With My Soul

Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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Categories: person, giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse

A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup

A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities 
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a 
few forests. A ruby red swirls within 
its petals beckons awareness of those...

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Categories: person, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form: Shape

Her Masterpiece Is Her Story

Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: person, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme

Love One Another

“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: person, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?

If I Had Money

if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
               ...

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Categories: person, drug, introspection, universe,
Form: Free verse

Amberina Ballerina

A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: person, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse

True Colors

Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: person, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse

Hidden Treasures


 *        *    *       *    ...

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Categories: person, art,
Form: Shape

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: person, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse

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: person, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play

Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: person, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Kindness - POTD

POTD 2 July 2018

Humans are capable of ‘Changing their State’. At times, a stressful, negative fusillade can be encountered from an individual wishing to subvert...

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Categories: person, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Joined By Words

~ for my fellow poets ~


as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt

fine fancies or fears
take...

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Categories: person, appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Love Has Its Costs

THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: person, desire,
Form: Narrative

Worst Love Poem Ever Written

I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: person, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy