Best Poetry
Below are the all-time best Poetry poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of poetry poems written by PoetrySoup members
How Poetry BeganThat thing that we call poetry -
when asked where it began,
I’d say it started beautifully
before the dawn of man!
It glistened on the oceans
before man came...
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Categories:
nature, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain
Poetry SoapIt’s almost time and I must run
to watch/read Poetry Soap for fun.
It comes on every day at this time
and I don’t want to miss a...
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Categories:
poetry, abuse, conflict, jealousy, love,
Form:
Couplet
Parallel Poetry(PoetrySoup Format)
Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.
~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~
Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating...
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Categories:
poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet Who Never WasI thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...
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Categories:
emotions, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
poetry, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
poetry, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dedicated To All the PoetsAn untouched piano has no purpose,
like a lonely clown without a circus.
A boat has no destiny stuck at shore,
silent like a lion who's lost its...
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Categories:
inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poets AbodeA Poet’s Abode
A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...
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Categories:
art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impacts of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
poetry, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
poetry, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Swan Ballerina PagesLike delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.
But what are ballerinas with...
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Categories:
poetess, poetry,
Form:
Personification
Under the StarsUnder the Stars
Breathtaking
poetic passions,
lavender skies
...
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Categories:
autumn, love, poetry, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
No Poet, Am IA poet, you say? Oh no, not am I,
There's only...
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Categories:
blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
There Is a Poem In My HeartThere is a poem in my heart,
that beats in different dialects.
Da ist ein Gedicht in meinem Herzen,
which flows freely through my veins.
Il y à un...
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Categories:
poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
My Far SideYou say, I’m too far,
towards the far side?
It’s a hazard of my left-handedness,
that I see the logic in abstraction.
Worlds lay within worlds
and colors bleed...
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Categories:
poetry, how i feel, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Of InkPartial Paper
-A poet in heat-
Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...
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Categories:
poetry, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Poem Garden
I have a little garden
growing on a page.
No mint, I beg your pardon.
I hope that there is sage.
It’s ideas I plant there
to see what they...
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Categories:
garden, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poet's GiftA Poet's Gift
A poet writes to share a secret depth
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their...
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Categories:
art, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
In NovemberIn November I write of winter
for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...
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Categories:
november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Rewriting Poemsi long to hold you
like a poet
holds their pen
caress you gently
beneath the linger
of thoughts
as they fall
from the depths
of mind
play with you
like a poet
plays...
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Categories:
poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I Dance
Voice: Jason Williams
***
I danced!
Whirling air around me, particles of sundust
in tornadoes and hurricanes following me in awe
I danced.
Each night I wake and feel...
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Categories:
poetry, abuse, dance, music, pain,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Am MoreI am more than your definitions
more than affixed labels
placed on my anatomy
more than your misconceptions
or even valid perceptions
I am more
I am more than what's written...
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Categories:
poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Reverse Rant"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!
What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not...
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Categories:
humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Joined By Words~ for my fellow poets ~
as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt
fine fancies or fears
take...
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Categories:
appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Poetic GardenIn my silent sanctuary,
my poetic garden blooms like sun kissed seeds,
carefully placed under a quilt of soil,
sprinkled with holy water.
In the vividness of morning mist,
spring...
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Categories:
assonance, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Free verse