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Best Receiving Poems

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


Premium Member To My Granddaughter
I look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes 
Your sails adjusting, full...

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Categories: receiving, grandchild, light, trust,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: receiving, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Gloaming
That first glimpse of purple in the gloaming
As dawn softly rises in morning skies 
Ascending along with nature's colors
Is a look of faith and hope...

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Categories: receiving, color, inspirational, morning, purple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wings of Change
Remembering when
Perched high above on rocky crags
Cliffs weathered by times handprints
I saw far and wide to distant shores
Tendrils of desire radiating outwards

Riding the briny mist...

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Categories: receiving, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embedded Hieroglyphics
Called to journey
Through the passageway of my heart
I close the door and turn
Exposing myself in full surrender

Fuzzy whiteness vibrates around me
A fleecy cocoon tickles my...

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Categories: receiving, beauty, celebration, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Essence of Love Collaboration With Vijay Pandit
What is a man without the woman he loves,
searching for his lady like lonesome doves.
As his heart connects with the one he adores,
his soul will...

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Categories: receiving, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Endearing
Love is an impulse fueled by the heart,
A stimulating prompt eliciting response
Invoking affinity from halo of its soul~
Sense it, feel it, touching depth of core;
Harmonious,...

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Categories: receiving, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Life Is A Song
Life is not just the passing of the years
but the ripening wisdom of living.

Life is not just a toll taken
but a well of receiving and...

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Categories: receiving, life, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Categories: receiving, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech
 Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate

With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An...

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Categories: receiving, analogy, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: receiving, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: receiving, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mind Hunter
In search of the human mind

Different thoughts crossed my mind,
a few conclusions I could not find
The human mind has no stop!
Receiving input, danger, before I...

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Categories: receiving, adventure, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: receiving, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Why Poetry
With Shakespearean romance I can't compete
Or Virginia Woolf's lovely agony
Or the wit of Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain
The genius of Emily Dickinson, splendidly plain

I know...

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Categories: receiving, appreciation, encouraging, inspirational, poets,
Form: Rhyme

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