Best Plain Poems
Below are the all-time best Plain poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of plain poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
plain, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
plain, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
A Gift of LoveAround my mom, I always felt my guilt
My conscience seem to always take her side
Some years ago, I gave her a new quilt
I still recall...
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Categories:
plain, love, mother,
Form:
Sonnet
In the Sun's Last GlowOn her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...
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Categories:
plain, heart, lost love, may,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Colours of Poetry
Art is abstract
Art thrives with colours
Colours brighten faded coral
Colours highlight black
Black skies with silver stars
Black opal gemstones
Gemstones like amethyst
Gemstones of vivid ruby
Ruby roses and crimson...
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Categories:
plain, poetry,
Form:
Blitz
Categories:
plain, nostalgia,
Form:
Concrete
Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,
talking to the dance
listen to the elders,
whispering their chants
listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain
listen to the birds, prophesying rain
listen...
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Categories:
plain, appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The ConclusionIt was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...
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Categories:
plain, america, death, western,
Form:
Narrative
We'Ll Always Have San Andreas-rearranging the stars-
How could we agree to separation?
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...
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Categories:
plain, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form:
Alliteration
Stars and Those With Stripes"America First",
is the worst.
Should not thinking of others,
be your thirst?
Those who are selfish,
end up being cursed!
Soon they'll be last,
instead of first.
Who among you,
prefers guns and...
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Categories:
plain, black african american, class,
Form:
Political Verse
The Bard of GortSpringing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
plain, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Kaleidoscopethrough a tiny lens
held firmly with hands
eyes gaze in awe..
with a simple twist
colours explode harmoniously
bright, sparkling,blinding..
the colours are stunning
so vivid, so alive
with truth as in...
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Categories:
plain, faith, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...
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Categories:
plain, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
America the Broken“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain
I pause “For purple...
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Categories:
plain, abuse, america, angst, beautiful,
Form:
Political Verse
Jan AllisonI am from Great Britain – it’s not a rumour
I always try to write with a sense of humour
In 1996 we moved to live...
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Categories:
plain, mum,
Form:
Couplet