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Best Relatable Poems

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


The Relatable Nature of Villains
It's obvious, heroes are pretty easy to write
it's not hard to make a good guy that will fight for his rights
villains are the ones that...

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Categories: relatable, evil, hero,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Friendship's Omission
As I
Soak in hummingbird’s exhale
I feel tragic sonatas
Trying to chain
Trying to crucify
My sedentary grip on instability

I smell the repugnant commoner
Blasting scattered shots
Against yesterday’s decent

I became...

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Categories: relatable, forgiveness, friendship, leaving, life,
Form: Free verse
Letter To Eminem
Dear Marshall, I'm writing this knowing you don't know who I am
You've heard it millions of times, You'd probably laugh and call me Stan
But growing...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatable, dedication, deep, feelings, people,
Form: Free verse
Heart of Stone
A time may come, when heart, which is said to be a soft piece of flesh, turns to a stone. A stone beating in your...

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© Hina Nasir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatable, absence, analogy, death, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member His Own Writer
Don't corner the writer – put
him in a cage and poke; you
like Shakespeare...then read
Shakespeare! And let the writer
be his own rhyming or ill rhymed-bloke. 
To...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatable, humorous, perspective, poetess, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A Poem Within a Poem
What you're holding in your hands
Is a poem within a poem
Both far enough apart
But close enough to get along
Set within each other
So as not to...

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Categories: relatable, abortion, poems,
Form: Light Verse
White
A tone, an absorption of colour.
A clean slate, the colour of rage
The parts of the eyes that you aim for before you die
Crash-Bang
Flash

You are in...

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Categories: relatable, 11th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From My Experience

From my experience anyway
the face of a clock is generally
the face or faces of loved ones

hands~ our contribution of little 
extremities that grow, fingers into...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatable, christian, faith, family, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Sticky Fingers
I can only write on the computer.
And I suppose that that’s not really the right thing to say, because people are going to say that...

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© K8 Pterous  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatable, philosophy, poets, slam, words,
Form: Free verse
Wicked
What would happen if there was no happily ever after?
Would the stories we love now still be passed on?

Or would we abandon their worlds because...

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Categories: relatable, deep, discrimination, identity,
Form: Free verse
Traumotion - Trauma and Emotion
Sometimes, I feel like I have PTSD
Depression damages me in distress
I’m somewhat mad and sad and yet glad, but it’s not rad…
It feels bad…it’s the...

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Categories: relatable, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deeper Than Any Blade
A poem should be the candle
that brings human feelings to light;
moving like a stubbled shadow
across the face of tomorrow.

And its rhythm should be inviting;
soliciting raw...

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Categories: relatable, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Blank verse
Huffing Paint In the Mini-Van
Baby birds tweet as their long skinny necks stretch towards blind faith. Somewhat frantically; newly born; next to dead; fragile existence; protected with life. Regurgitation...

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Categories: relatable, imagery, innocence, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Not Reality, Actuality
Eyes open to reality but I'm stuck in actuality
My life is desirable but only to whom who never see me depressed hiding alone in my...

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Categories: relatable, conflict, identity, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fly
"Fly"




Enigma

Out of nowhere
his voices arrived

He thought he’d 
write a poem

Senryu
get the In to the Outside 

Simple magic
3 lines

Mind erect
his smalls itched

freeze 
dried

His mind CPTSD 
crying...

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Categories: relatable, dark, image, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things