Best Present Day(A) Poems
Below are the all-time best Present Day(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of present day(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members
ShadowIt was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...
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Categories:
present day(a), dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Why the Willow WeepsThe Willow did not always weep,
in summer sun and breeze.
But sorrow once did quickly creep,
amongst the bark and leaves.
For long ago a maiden fair,
would bask...
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Categories:
present day(a), loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
ToleranceTOLERANCE
I have little tolerance for tolerant people.
Those that will endure the corruption of
the truth, the erosion of meaning. While at
the same time being intolerant...
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Categories:
present day(a), betrayal, freedom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Vietnam WarThe pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed
This...
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Categories:
present day(a), death, history, hope, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Journey To Spirit MountainMinter Bridge Road to Burkhalter Lane
Alpaca farms dot the hilly terrain, baby llamas
Wear thick curly fur, until the shears come
They look really funny when the...
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Categories:
present day(a), environment, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
A Love That Can Never BeYou stand before me proud and free
At first I thought you were a fantasy.
You're smile, your touch so real to me
I need to know what...
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Categories:
present day(a), imagination, life, lost love,
Form:
I do not know?
First Love's Indelible Memory PureFirst Love’s Indelible Memory Pure
Deep in my memory remains a pure vision of a first love,
long-forgotten—now conjured up as a present-day image.
This rare, soulful reflection...
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Categories:
present day(a), allegory, confusion, destiny, emotions,
Form:
Couplet
Holokauston Page 2 of 2After the quiet we all have to go
Dragged and carted by the Sonderkommando
To be dumped in pits covered by lime
A race to dispose by it's...
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Categories:
present day(a), angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
What About These DaysTimes change to the present day.
No woman would dare knock on doors
in districts that are unknown,
for rapists are ever-present
to satiate their selfish lusts.
Gossip is called...
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Categories:
present day(a), life,
Form:
Free verse
Holokauston
holókauston
Around that table picture the scene
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean
What were the topics on the agenda that day
The...
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Categories:
present day(a), death,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
present day(a), age, faith, god, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
A Spark of Once Upon a TimeOnce upon a time....
When the darkness came to greet me at my door
I would simply answer "She doesn't live here anymore"
And when the darkness prowled...
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Categories:
present day(a), depression, introspection, lifeme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
In a HeartbeatMy first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a...
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Categories:
present day(a), first love, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Way of All FleshAt five foot four and seven stone,
Steve was all skin and bone,
At six foot two and twenty stone,
Brenda was all muscle and tone.
A love story...
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Categories:
present day(a), gender, god, humanity, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Do You Know Jesus
Do You Know Jesus
(Or Just Know Of Him?)
Written: by Miracle Man
September 9, 2020
Is our relationship with Jesus mere afterthought,
have we let daily thoughts...
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Categories:
present day(a), angst, depression, god, jesus,
Form:
Lyric