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Best Pillow Poems

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


Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: pillow, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: pillow, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight Secret
*Secreto de Medianoche*   
  
~On this very Night~
   I found myself in a
       ...

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Categories: pillow, beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: pillow, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: pillow, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: pillow, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Our Worlds Collide
I would love to be your comfort
A blanket when you're confused
A bright song on every dark day
Warmth and hope you cannot lose
To be the canopy...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pillow, destiny, dream, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
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: pillow, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Weeping Willow
                Oh, weeping willow - friend to me
  ...

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Categories: pillow, friendship, tree,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member When a Man Cries
No one ever told me that your heart could bleed without a drop that anyone could see. I didn't know your soul could lose weight...

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Categories: pillow, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: pillow, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Tonight I Could Paint a Moonlight
Tonight is not like other nights

Tonight I could paint a moonlight

with the smudged ink of my tears

No its not the inexperienced  arms of death

which...

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Categories: pillow, emotions, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pillow, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
The Inner Child
I don't want to be your sister

I don't want to be your mother

I don't want to be your wife

nor your mistress or a lover

I want...

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Categories: pillow, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pillow, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs