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Best Recoup Poems

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


Nothing Is More Powerful Than Love
I am seated in a bed-like rock
Under the foothills this is a single block

The Sun rises behind my back
Though I face hills in the west,...

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Categories: recoup, feelings, happiness, journey, love,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Like Brightest Stars
Like the brightest stars we fade in time
Losing the sparkling diamond in our eyes
Our zest for excitement slowly subsides
Attempts to succeed become futile tries.

The light...

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Categories: recoup, age, angst, character, life,
Form: Quatrain
Computer Error
I’ve always been a cash man, so when me cash was blown,
I might be sitting back all stony broke and pleading for a loan,
at least...

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Categories: recoup, computer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Souper New Year! (Co-Written With James Fraser)
In early spring I found you on Poetry Soup
A haven where wordsmiths congregate to recoup
Some sense of sanity in a world filled with grief
Your friendship,...

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Categories: recoup, friendship, holidaywords, me, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rapunzel's Revenge
The ugly witch kept her in a tower
And made her work hour after hour,
Until her loved prince set her free
When he said, “Rapunzel, marry me.”

The...

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Categories: recoup, funny
Form: Couplet



An Immigrants Position
I came first but you did not write me in history
You made me mute, invisible, estranged
From my own heredity and great memory
With the slivering tongue...

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Categories: recoup, black-african amerme, me,
Form: Verse
Sorry, Seems Eternity Ended Last Week
I was but a boy
You seemed almost a toy,
So young, and in love,
We fit just like a glove

You said, "All I can offer you,
Is a...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recoup, angst, life, lost love,
Form: Bio
Premium Member 'soul Sessions'
Some day
One day
How about today? 

Let all that is you
Dance to the rhythm of your soul

Indulge in some soul sessions
Whatever they might be
Acknowledge who you...

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Categories: recoup, introspection, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup Rocks
Poets around the world gather right here
Over mounts and founts where muse is found clear
Expecting greatness from Poetry Soup
Then finding it when you need to...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recoup, inspirational, joy, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Plights Fought Tomorrow Known
PLIGHTS FOUGHT TOMORROW KNOWN
WRITTEN FOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY 2016 (Versified!)

As days transpires, better we focus.
As life transgress, better our voice.
A walk, a...

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Categories: recoup, appreciation, change, conflict, culture,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Better I Went
There was a poet at PoetrySoup
 
Whose only wish was to help the group 

Poems he wrote every day

Just wanted good things to say

Disappointed though,...

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Categories: recoup, friend, poetry, thank you,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Mind Thing
pain is
a mind thing
blue skys

	Each day I awake and kiss the stubs on my hand - - - now, five of them.  I never...

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Categories: recoup, death,
Form: Prose
A Seed of Hope
In the swirling breeze the leaves rustled,
Dawn nears and voices of crickets falter;
Her fingers glided on the water,
Down beneath the even surface rippled

Blue disappears where...

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© Julia Ho  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recoup, art, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Cubicle Life
click click, click click, tick-tock, tick-tock,
the clock seems to tick not as fast as one wants,
the air conditioner stops now they can hear you chew,...

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© Ty Hu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recoup, cheer up, computer, day,
Form: Free verse
Bird of Love and Loyalty
Stork flights in unison                     ...

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Categories: recoup, bird, character, family, mother,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs