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Best Refusing Poems

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


Premium Member To Be With You -
I love you,
that's not hard for me to say,
its not a prediction, or a reflection, it just is
a motion in my heart's ocean,
an ocean named...

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Categories: refusing, desire,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: refusing, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: refusing, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: refusing, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Wise Words To Ponder
just going  to church every week ~ does not make you a better Christian

be grateful for everything that you have ~ because many have...

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Categories: refusing, wisdom,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Sunny Horizons - POTD
POTD 20 Dec 2018

Like sand in an hour glass
Time moves so fast
A precious commodity
Not meant to last

Measured in hours
Minutes unfold
Time waits for no man
So I’ve...

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Categories: refusing, appreciation, farewell, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: refusing, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Gate
Regally it stands, the staunch guardian of her lonesome heart,
Reminiscing in revelries of yore, treasured memories impart,
Defying glum turbulence of now, hanging on to seasons...

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Categories: refusing, emotions, memory, missing,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist,...

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Categories: refusing, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chimera
Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats...

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Categories: refusing, animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Tribute
This is a well deserved tribute that I'd like to share
For those wonderful people working in our health care
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and admin staff too...

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Categories: refusing, people, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refusing, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unassailable Purity
Music and romance are camarilla comrades,
just like poems are my shield and arrows.
But not all lullabies of lovers,
harmonise like a street choir of angels.
If love...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refusing, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: refusing, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart of Gold
The beauty of life, which is often unseen
I guess each of us has some sort dream

Intertwined with our ambitions and hope
Sometimes it seems so impossible...

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Categories: refusing, introspection, lifelife,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs