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Best Recognisable Poems

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


Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: recognisable, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Dear Diary (Dying)
Maybe this can't be saved.

One more short year and I'll never see her again. I'll always be wondering about 
her but it's better left that...

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Categories: recognisable, angst, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Love
Beginning with what it is not
Being certainly not transience we can slot

Calling a spade a spade
Love not an exchange or trade
‘I love you provided you...

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Categories: recognisable, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Affections An Open Form
AFFECTIONS
unrequited
a
recognisable
resemblance
in
unfinished
replicas

mystery&
curiosity
emanates
in
an
 element
of
renown
&slender
beauty

a
distinct
yet
indescribeable
 aura
indictive
of  despair
accumulates
 out of proportion...

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Categories: recognisable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Toy Maker
The toy maker sat all alone in his shop
A hammer and chisel, on the wood he would chop
Moulding and shaving
The wood taking shape
Until to his...

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Categories: recognisable, inspirational
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jimmy - An Ordinary Guy
His years spanned 1908-1997
reaching the grand age of 89
played many a character in his life
giving each one his special shine

My memories of Jimmy Stewart
goes back...

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Categories: recognisable, film, hero, life, mentor,
Form: Rhyme
Sleeping In the Rain
Every step forward brings an 
energised momentum. Leading
me toward a portal which leads
me to the Styx ferryman

I am confronted with this resoundingly
unique shape, the emblem...

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Categories: recognisable, funeral,
Form: Free verse
This Union Means Jack
Twitching limply atop an Ulster lamppost
Like a hung man, legs kicking in spasm at the last seconds of life
Its bigoted purpose now spent and now...

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Categories: recognisable, history, nostalgia, political, social,
Form: Free verse
Him
 
There's a guy 
Sweet simple and innocent 
Standing in the crowd 
Yet different from it 
Easily recognisable
He is waiting with love in his eyes...

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Categories: recognisable, lost love, teen,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dust To Dust
I left you in the corner of my mind 
with teenage memories of my puberty. 
I put thoughts of you in a box in the...

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Categories: recognisable, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Mr and Mrs War
Boom! 
There goes his dignity,
There goes his life.
How do we tell his mother? 
Who's going to tell his wife?
His frail, broken frame 
Stretchered away.
Only recognisable...

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Categories: recognisable, divorce, hero, military, war,
Form: I do not know?
How Can We Define?
What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature...

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Categories: recognisable, adventure, devotion, education, faith,
Form: Verse
Topaz
Buried in the depth of mother earth
    the labor working hard on the innards
      the steel and...

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Categories: recognisable, lifebetrayal, love,
Form: Free verse
Demons
She was devoured by the 

polluted river That leads to hell,

Her conscience had deserted 

her sponge soaked Brain,

Intoxication became her

Psychological constitution,

This problematic, indisposed

Woman, is not...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recognisable, abuse, drink, health, missing,
Form: Free verse
Before She Was Born
Second sight in some infants, short tenure belies
Unbiased newness unpicks societal manufacture
To passers by, lurking spiritual assets recognisable
Pervading expression classifies their clairvoyance

Such was toddling dandelion...

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Categories: recognisable, baby, child, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things