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Best Ponders Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: ponders, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: ponders, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Life, His Love
Above a cloud, in soundless, still tumescence,
a goddess rests; below her is the sea.
A strip of it is rippling luminescence,
a path of light in night’s...

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Categories: ponders, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and...

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Categories: ponders, love, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shores of Uncertainty
As his mind drifts upon silent shores of uncertainty, 
he ponders what was, what is and what is yet to come.
He wonders why no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ponders, analogy, dark, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Portrait
He cloaked her skin 

with a dark silk gown 

made of tattered wings 

neath the hunter' skies 

He covered her hair 

with a mourning veil...

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Categories: ponders, hero, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Term of Birth - Lipogram sonnet
In the term of birth, fields begin to mend.
Tough soil softens in tones of brown umber,
Insects wriggle to rejoice winter's end.
Spiders spin webs, rising from...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ponders, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stillness
I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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Categories: ponders, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Pondering the Sad and Fateful Decision
Pondering The Sad And Fateful Decision

there he sat
his brain peddling along
heart fluttering in space
and that bright summer sky kissing his face
mind recalling trouble
her face appears
she...

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Categories: ponders, art, death, deep, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Art of Understanding
You so desperately 
Want to be understood
So I wonder
Why
Why do you
Hold back
So much of yourself

I see him digging
Chipping at your edges
Wondering what's behind the facade
He...

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Categories: ponders, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Misty Morning's Fast Fading Glow
Upon Misty Morning's Fast Fading Glow

Upon misty morning's fast fading glow, 
dance fairies on glittering silver wings. 
Flying with fantasies flowing in tow 
And sweetest...

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Categories: ponders, blessing, creation, destiny, giving,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member What Inspires You
Dear Poet, What Inspires You?


the mind of the poet dreams beyond the now and into the ethereal

the heart of the poet burns for romance and...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ponders, inspiration,
Form: List
My Blossoms
When the season of splendor sprinkles 
the scent of sprightliness,
when the koels and kingfishers sing hymns of hope 
and merrily waltz their wings of chartreuse...

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Categories: ponders, hope, muse, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abecedarian-Betwixt Birth and Death
Aging woman stands on the precipice betwixt birth and death reflecting upon her life.
Bereft she sometimes feels when reflecting upon her life.
Crying, she succumbs to...

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Categories: ponders, age, birth, death,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member The Fighter
As beams through blinds half-open softly play
on mottled skin, and helpless, she depends
on doctors and on nurses, none allay
her growing agony that never ends.
 
Her...

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Categories: ponders, death, heaven,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things