Best Raising Poems
Below are the all-time best Raising poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of raising poems written by PoetrySoup members
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
raising, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
This Spring the Poppies BloomedA field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...
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Categories:
raising, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
raising, bird, hope, love,
Form:
Shape
Moonlight SerenadeBlindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...
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Categories:
raising, sensual,
Form:
Haibun
The Book of Her BodyI lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated...
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Categories:
raising, love,
Form:
Ballad
Rule the WorldReal women
Understand a very simple yet important concept.
Love begins at home.
Everything else just follows.
To eliminate
Hatred from the world
Entails raising children with love and guidance.
Women deserve...
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Categories:
raising, power,
Form:
Acrostic
Broken WingsAs the sun arose in the eastern skies
a fairy princess sits rubbing her eyes.
Yawning she glimpses her magical isle
and her tiny lips, curl...
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Categories:
raising, beautiful, fairy, fantasy, freedom,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
White Picket FenceFeaturing: Keith :)
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Fresh sand garments
The Mental Colosseum floor
Self-infliction's--waging wars
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~ AND THE POEM BEGINS ~
A mask, tiny holes
Breathing heavily
Dancing around my toes
Broad carbon steel
Safe...
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Categories:
raising, adventure, art, beauty, body,
Form:
Free verse
In the Chill of An Open DoorCleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a...
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Categories:
raising, angst, caregiving, death, father,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Tears of a HeroTears of a hero
Tears of a hero, they say I supposed to be a tough guy..So I can’t let the tears show.
But with these feelings...
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Categories:
raising, emotions, inspirational, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Mother - POTD
shade of vermilion encompassing sky at dawn,
pure fragrance of delightful jasmine in summer,
luminous dew drops quivering on lotus leaves,
an almost-forgotten melody from my childhood!
all these...
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Categories:
raising, dedication, devotion, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...
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Categories:
raising, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Women's CircleTaking the risk,
Baring the soul,
Seeking the wisdom
That shall make us whole.
Raising the arms,
Spreading the wings,
Hearing the music
That deep in us sings.
Stepping the dance,
Chanting the song,
Feeling...
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Categories:
raising, community, sister, women,
Form:
Quatrain
Before the Rain Is GoneShe kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.
Inside her was a garden
that was...
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Categories:
raising, fantasy, imagination, naturerain, blue,
Form:
Rhyme
Life's StoriesHis eyes are dark, but, there's still a spark.
There are canyons in his face.
His lungs are gone and it won't be long,
'Till his heart...
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Categories:
raising, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme