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Best Personified Poems

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


Premium Member Silence Personified
I am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under 
a billion snowflakes.

I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...

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Categories: personified, analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Sijo - 1 - Personified
How beautiful the frosty breath of winter on the land
A breath so cold ...a kiss of death...that turns Mother Earth to stone  
But with...

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Categories: personified, nature,
Form: Sijo
Rage Personified
The rage I feel now is boiling inside, pressure in my head

I have never liked this feeling when I’ve felt it before, too close to...

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Categories: personified, angst, confusion, introspection, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: personified, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Poem For Whomever
she is tranquillity
yet lava flows in her veins

cut her open and you'll burn

she is Eve's apple
nemesis to patriarchy

one bite and you'll bleed

she is a rainbow
an...

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Categories: personified, friendship, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Untouched Orchard
She's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings 
of black-winged butterflies 
that croon and reflect
the true tragedy of a...

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Categories: personified, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celestial Choreography
As the glistening jewels 
         of snow cascade like 
ballerinas pirouetting 
     ...

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Categories: personified, i love you, imagery,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: personified, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Ode To Mother Ganga
No mere river, thou art nation’s heartbeat,
That you came from heaven may be a myth,
Not that for common good ye fell beneath,
For centuries ye lift...

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Categories: personified, mother, river,
Form: Ode
Premium Member My Day As a Woman
When I awoke, a woman I'd become
The spirit of many, contained in one
Strength and beauty, mystical tears
Magical entity, who hated mirrors

Looking at reflection, I seen...

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Categories: personified, encouraging, feelings, journey, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rose From Heaven's Garden
A rose just picked from heaven's garden;
     a gift that keeps on giving, that's you.
 Passions that you invoke within me,...

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Categories: personified, analogy, flower, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death of a Muse
As cotton clouds fade under blank blackness,
I sigh as stars stare at my moon.
My breathless quill feels no pulse, but it beats,
unable to find admiration...

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Categories: personified, analogy, angst, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflections of a Broken Mirror
In shadows deep, where childhood fears reside,
A father's wrath, a son's tormented life,
A torrent of abuse, a soul's despair,
A question lingers, heavy in the putrid...

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Categories: personified, abuse, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
My Friend Andrea
Dedicated to my Friend, Andrea Dietrich


A blessing meant to materialize is how I define Andrea’s role in my life.  Andrea is a bright light...

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Categories: personified, blessing, care, fate, friendship,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Vagabond
Poetry is like medication, in each release of expression,
there is healing - Poet.

In the realms of lost childhoods,
where demons prey upon the defenceless -
no one...

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Categories: personified, analogy, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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