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Best Quintessential Poems

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


Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: quintessential, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: quintessential, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE WISH - POTD
POTD 23rd Nov 2023

THE WISH

As the softer rose shades of twilight fades
With a heartfelt gravity, darkness descends
Oblivious to the North winds stinging bite
‘Neath this star-speckled...

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Categories: quintessential, love, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celestial Choreography
As the glistening jewels 
         of snow cascade like 
ballerinas pirouetting 
     ...

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Categories: quintessential, i love you, imagery,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member To a Raven
Fearless Raven, soaring in
the rich, dark chasm—
that world of shadows, echoes,
cliffs and crags chaotic,
the void of subtle stirrings in
a quintessential midnight—
Make some room for me
on...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quintessential, angst, bird, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member WHO WAS SHE
 WHO WAS SHE

I intuited the radiance before
I even laid eyes on her
Moving with a self-assured poise
that came from deep within
was a quintessence of a...

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Categories: quintessential, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Kuliglig
There she waits by her window,
gazing up at the velveteen summer sky,
searching for her favorite bituin,
whisper-pondering

Only the kuliglig replies—
The quintessential tune of summer. 

Despite herself,...

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Categories: quintessential, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortal Bucolic Painting
He ran the palm of his hand across the canvas,
Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric.
It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure
The...

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Categories: quintessential, appreciation,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member A Lighthearted Peek At The Apocalyptic World Of Poetry Contests
This contest style’s description is one I’ve never heard
I’m unfamiliar with that particular word 
An internet search comes up empty 
However, others seem to have...

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Categories: quintessential, fun, humor, satire, word
Form: Rhyme
' Where Are the Words ? ... '
Where Are The Words …
I Am Looking For Words …
… That Will Give Meaning
To Meeting You, This Evening

And What Can I Say ? …
What I...

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Categories: quintessential, introspection, life, love, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sight, Sound and Scent
When I think of the bygone Christmas
images that come to my mind are
candy canes, cookies and popcorn strands
adorning the Christmas tree. 
The popcorn strands are...

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Categories: quintessential, christmas, holiday,
Form: Free verse
The Social Tree
The most social thing on earth
Social than the Social Networking Sites
Tall with straight uniform trunk
Unbranched trunk topped with a
Tuft fanlike or featherlike leaves.

Cresting with a...

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Categories: quintessential, beauty, tree,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Ophelia: the Evergreen Heroine of Shakespearean Tragedy
The quintessential of nyctophilia, wrapped in bridal attire, slowly and slowly as in somnambulism there goes the heroine of timeless tragedy to supersede her lovers...

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Categories: quintessential, angst, anxiety, books, conflict,
Form: Free verse
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Reformations amities amid poetics tour de force overture within, virtuoso's....

Fatalisms exuberant pas de deux; foreordained this ballet in exquisites verse

To cross dimensions of spatial extent;...

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Categories: quintessential, faith, love, passion
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Crazy Is As Crazy Does
"Crazy is as Crazy does" 


Crazy is as Crazy does

poets and musicians 
come undonne
fresh plots 
till the soiled, their artful 
passion twists

a je ne sais...

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Categories: quintessential, muse, music, poets,
Form: Free verse

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