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Best Perspective Poems

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


Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Potd Good Night,Poets of Gold Pens
     ~Poetesses and Poets, Divine~

All over this great planet we live,
Penning our thoughts, and love to give!

With our hearts, as lanterns...

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Categories: appreciation, community, love, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Don'T Bother Me
Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: perspective, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?

When I can no longer run,
will you...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Poets Prepare Their Pens
They hide behind mountains of ignorance, 
judging within a valley of selfish love.
Among weeds where flowers refuse to grow,
to the mercy of hypocrites -

only we...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peace, perspective, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Shoes
My shoes have traveled miles of roads
Their soles are worn quite thin
Struggling with this heavy load
I carry deep within
Beyond repair, no longer shine
Scuffed with many...

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Categories: appreciation, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Old Man
Old man


he lived over there
in a house of dreams
		                ...

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Categories: perspective, art, beautiful, child, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Be Loved - Potd
To be loved
is to be a wildflower
blooming in springtime. 
How wondrous to be much desired
by all the honeybees in the meadow. 
There's no greater wealth...

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Categories: analogy, appreciation, love, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shape of Water
So much to know, so little time to learn
To think of all the unsolved mysteries
Still trying to understand all that we know
How sad, most go...

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Categories: environment, life, perspective, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Views of You
Now, when the day is cool and new
While fragile light is still allowed
My paper captures views of you
Your eyes, the shape of shifting clouds

While fragile...

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Categories: future, hope, perspective,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Snowflakes

There's a magic in snowflakes, 
yet their majesty is only momentary -

just like you, 
          ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things