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Best Prodigious Poems

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


The Prodigious Woman
Tic tac! Tic tac! Time flies
Encompassing fears and tribulations, she smiles
A second's like a gemstone before her eyes
Trying to please the World before the night...

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Categories: prodigious, dedication, family, hope, life,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: prodigious, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: prodigious, humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse

O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten...

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Categories: prodigious, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Tempest
TEMPEST

Twin limestone tors thrust up through valley floor
Like isles or icebergs in a calm flat sea
Deep green save where shear rock can hold no spore
To...

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Categories: prodigious, environment, inspirational, philosophy, places,
Form: Narrative



I Reach For You
Fingers tantalize like whispers 
Heated breaths upon supple skin
Dancing in softness parallel to feathers
Aimlessly tossed by the wind

Enticing me with lips as they play 
Like...

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Categories: prodigious, absence, boyfriend, dream, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Slender Birch
Steel Gray skies with threatening rain and restless wind
My breath gathers as mist on the inside of the window pane
...as I watched for the school...

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Categories: prodigious, mother, nature, seasons, tree,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Walker
There she goes into the moon dust 
Walking in the silver lit fair and just, 
Above stars were sprinkled on her hair,
Her body,clothes with perfumed...

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Categories: prodigious, beautiful, blessing, daffodils, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Shakespeare With Admiration
He was the bard from Stratford, and as a teenager
he helped his father in his trade; he married and had children
and became the most popular...

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Categories: prodigious, art, family, father, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Mystical Temple of Poetry

Once freed of boring prodigious 
questions.
Once freed of all poetic forms.
Once freed of trying to impress
 you with imagery.
Once freed of following all norms.

Then and only...

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Categories: prodigious, confidence, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winged Invaders
  Their ghastly buzzing’s in the air
    targeting vegetation everywhere
  They dive-bomb and guillotine
    anything and everything...

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Categories: prodigious, dark, insect, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dragon
Denizen of abyssal labyrinth,
legendary ancient Wyrm seeks succour
within prodigious sepulchral cavern:
her domicile for an ageless lifetime.

Ethereal shafts cascade through ceiling's
stochastic rifts, piercing tenebrous tomb;
vicious viscous...

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Categories: prodigious, adventure, fantasy, fire, magic,
Form: Free verse
The Cedar Tree
The cedar towered above the shingled roof,
Its tapered branches hiding squirrels and birds
until the day when Hugo swept the hills
uprooting poplars, whipping wind-wilted
leaves against the...

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© Karen Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prodigious, creation, nature, tree, visionary,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Prodigy In Pieces
A boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado, 
the chessmen championed his...

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Categories: prodigious, america, heart, history,
Form: Epic
Covenant
COVENANT

The mourning of lost souls 
The treachery of natural disaster
Brings us before God to ask are we forsaken.
To adjust to ways and will of a...

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Categories: prodigious, character, community, creation, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs