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Best Persona Poems

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


Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: persona, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: persona, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: persona, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
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: persona, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ode To Mum
Brown paper memories she puts in my hands
Twine roughly tied in a bow slightly askew
Part and parcel of a humble life once led?
My defiant eyes...

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Categories: persona, inspirational love, love, mum,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Not all dreams come true
Mind softened, 
watching fusions 
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming 
             ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persona, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Personification
Honey vapour scents travelled among seduced tepid zephyrs.
This was not a dream for I was within the realms of reality,
as fate's footsteps led my heart...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persona, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: persona, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
No Sign of a Whine, a Smiling Mother
My heart I set on a dear companion
the cherished imprint on my soul, profound
how safe I felt in a tough kind bosom!
though I ceased to...

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Categories: persona, best friend, blessing, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mundane Matters of Mortals
Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease 
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - 
the sickly buzz is everywhere..

the dirge of the drudge 
nowadays damn near everyone in...

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Categories: persona, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form: Free verse
Sharon Weimer
Though we’ve never met 
I comprehend your beautiful words
I feel your pleasant persona
Never a mean word to be said
I ache from your kindness 
Making others...

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Categories: persona, dedication, friendship, happiness, thank
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Serenade
Sometimes..

Life can be a silent serenade,
                   ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persona, angst, sad, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE WISH - POTD
POTD 23rd Nov 2023

THE WISH

As the softer rose shades of twilight fades
With a heartfelt gravity, darkness descends
Oblivious to the North winds stinging bite
‘Neath this star-speckled...

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Categories: persona, love, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment
Her persona is like 
a portrait 
   of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in 
  bittersweet lavender, 
unseen within depths 
of tributaries of elixir.
If only...

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Categories: persona, dark, deep, devotion, i
Form: Free verse
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persona, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs