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Best Railing Poems

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


Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: railing, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism



Waking Before I Found Love
I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore 
Searching for...

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Categories: railing, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survival
     We boarded the Carnival Cruise in Miami with excitement,
our destination was Montego Bay-   with a promise of great...

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Categories: railing, cute, imagination, lost, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Day After Christmas
On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.

My brothers and I...

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Categories: railing, childhood, christmas, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3
Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
                 residing inside of...

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Categories: railing, green, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Bridge
I walk towards you,
as you stand waiting at the center of the bridge.

Beneath my feet, aged timbers span the churning river below.
With each step I...

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Categories: railing, adventure, child, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur - 
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such...

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Categories: railing, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Four Hours of Eternity - 3
I woke to the sound of sizzling bacon, the aroma of fresh baked Muffins and my Beautiful Lenore in her bright green Teddy. "Nubbies", I...

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Categories: railing, faith, god, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Remembering When
I remember when: on an August day, while on a Caribbean cruise
My echo rippling across the sea as I vowed Forever; "I Do"
Take thee LENORE...

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Categories: railing, love, marriage, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeking the Answer -Miltonic Sonnet
The shadows creep and faintly in the sky,
stars begin to come to us with gentle light.
And once more our fancy doth take flight
with man's eternal...

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Categories: railing, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Vase Dream - C'Est La Vie
Vase Dream - c'est la vie 

White vase with no design
Dangling there - c'est la vie 
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything
In an...

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Categories: railing, adventure, change, fun, happy,
Form: Prose Poetry
On Rescuing An Injured Pigeon
ON RESCUING AN INJURED PIGEON
	I.
sliding screen door screeches, pigeons scatter
thump of wing against breast, shockwave breeze
more frequent than in the past, shimmering necks
soundtrack squirrel zig-zags,...

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Categories: railing, analogy, animal, pain,
Form: Personification
The Walk Upstairs
Finished off the casseroles
a while ago;
actually gave them to
someone with an appetite.
The neighbors have taken
your parking space.
The hallway’s unlit now,
but I still see the unhappiness...

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Categories: railing, lossme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serenity
Serenity.

Lingering alone on my porch, 
leaning against the wooden railing.
Still feeling warm to the touch,
after retaining the heat from the day.

On a June evening, 
after...

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Categories: railing, beauty, happiness, nature, summer,
Form: Free verse
Love Is My Ocean
I figured this wouldn’t be read because of its length, so why not just post it and get it over with

Love is my ocean 

~

Placed...

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Categories: railing, love,
Form: Rhyme

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