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Best Recount Poems

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


Tell Me a Tale
Tell me a tale of humanity
Paint me the love of your life
Show me a path to humility
How a man should honour his wife.

Help children believe...

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Categories: recount, imagination, poems, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eve of Evening
Where to turn, oh friend I ask
I chose to turn to you,
if you'd be so kind. 

Though I try hard to describe the beauty 
heard...

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Categories: recount, eve, life, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Inspiration Taps Softly
Sometimes late at night as we succumb to sleep
We greet creative thoughts beyond those of counting sheep

It’s said Thomas Edison held coins in his hands
That...

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Categories: recount, on writing and wordslonging,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sacred Dwellers
Sacred Dwellers

I am of Native American born
To be caretaker of Mother Earth sworn 

I heal with powers, a medicine man     ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recount, animal, native american, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member At Oceans Door
Dare we wade these tempered shores
less fear of what the next wave brings
a tidal rush playing fates encore
with the music of a thousand wings

This last...

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Categories: recount, analogy, hope, ocean,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member In Shame
IN SHAME

When I was a little girl father brutally beat me down with such severity, and humiliation, causing me to hang my head down low...

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Categories: recount, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toad
"The fables always recount the same ode.
Every woman dreams of a prince charming
Who is the fruit of a kiss on a toad.
Their sudden love will...

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Categories: recount, love,
Form: Sonnet
Jesus Sends His Angels True Story
You won't see this true story in the Main Media. Not long ago an incident took place in Nashville Tennessee. There was a school shooting...

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Categories: recount, angel, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Native Whisper of the Winds
Legends of  tribes roam across the  plains
Bold spirits guarding their own mighty land
They dance and offer songs to ease lost reign
And nourish life...

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Categories: recount, freedom, native american,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member You'Ve Broken Me
you've broken me in ways I can't recount
unloved, uncherished, and unsought am I
the anguish of my soul I can't surmount
the pounding of my heart an...

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Categories: recount, longing, love hurts,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member One More Time
The voyage long, begun at dawn, and then
the winged beast of metal rolls wheels to ground,
loved ones, inside and out, bear only grins,
and recount old...

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Categories: recount, family,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
The Lady of the Lake Part Ii
Through raven’s eye, viewed I my fate, blood scribed upon the ground,
whilst shadows of the darkwood’s dead, stood solemnly around.
Accusing faces staring down, from purgatory’s...

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Categories: recount, fantasyme, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Lost a Whole Weekend (Please Pardon My Rant)
I am your champion, I fight for your cause,
my love and devotion give some people pause.

When I saw you I knew you, just like with...

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Categories: recount, confusion, dedication, devotion, sondad,
Form: Narrative
All Over Again
Ive never realized 
How much i can miss someone 
I didn’t even have in the first place
How agonizing the pain could be
Cutting you so deep
But...

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Categories: recount, 12th grade, absence, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kitchen Table Issues
Before I start cleaning 
the kitchen tonight, 
I think we should talk 
and avoid a dumb fight.

     What would we fight...

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Categories: recount, america, anger, anxiety, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs