Get Your Premium Membership

Best Progression Poems

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


Premium Member Time Feathered In Stone

I open the cemetery gate and walk a winding path
the ancient trees sway and reach out for me as I go
I pass mazes of headstones
like...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Speaking With a Loud Quiet Voice
You speak into your child's life in whispers
With the strength of the four winds
No need for yelling
For your child has expectant ears

Wisdom
A fathered gift
Born out...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, blessing, father,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon

The Cocoon~

Inside...

Read more of this work...
© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progression, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
A Pair of Brown Eyes
it comes in rapid progression
parting reality with subtle lisps.	 brown eyes
a forest floor of fern
   ever changing with the seasons
	   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, love, passion, time
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kernels of Success

I cast these concepts
I cast these kernels
Kernels in my hand
Kernels in the clay
Clay of loam
Clay of words
Words to describe
Words packed
Packed with exegesis
Packed with strength
Strength of...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progression, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Blitz



Every Seed Grows
In this field of plantation; 
Where I walk and plant various 
parts of myself around this 
world; 
I sometimes look back and notice 
the trail;...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, self, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Time and Space
Time and space in deadlock
Time unlike the progression of a clock
Time dependent on interpretation
A linear cessation
Space dependent on mass
Triangulation through impasse
Portals of acquisition
An inner self...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, space, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Paradox of Time
You've seen 
what time can do 
     How 
     winds
       ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, time
Form: Lyric
The Good Old Days
It’s a feeling that never fails
To follow a generation
Triggered by sights and smells
A nostalgic way of thinking

A one up on millennials 
Knowing the correct way
It’s...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, age, change, remember, time,
Form: Rhyme
Browned-Cents
BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Black Oak Tree
A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, april, creation, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Rite of Passage
Rite Of Passage
          *
My Walk to Remember

My father takes my hand,
   tucks it in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, love, weddingblue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Awe To Indignation
Faint yellow is the first to appear
Leaves march forth in harmonic progression
To autumn’s clock all must adhere
Amber, scarlet and purple in procession
Bring gasps of wonder...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, autumn,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Life Glanced By Special Child
Revolving around LOVE indeed… 
that’s life as glanced by our special child
blessed by God*, the source of precious breath
and the author of wondrous existence…
Such is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, child, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Don'T Bide Your Time
In the blink of an eye the time passes so fast it flies by 
Define time 
Lives a ***** then you die 
Eye of the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: progression, hip hop, how i
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things