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Best Relied Poems

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


Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relied, community,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: relied, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unconditional Acceptance
Feeling hurt owing to belied expectation
The earth entity floundered hither and thither
Spiralling gloom causing consciousness contraction
The wound cut deep since he relied upon his transgressor

Pain...

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Categories: relied, forgiveness, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
To My Momma
Ok how do I do this
Where do I start
I can't remember much
But I love you with all my heart
To tell you the truth I'm really...

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Categories: relied, mom,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Place That Shaped Me
I left my
  heart   in 
 a magical 
  place. A
  place that
  holds years
 of wonder and
 awe....

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Categories: relied, cowboy-western, family, growing up,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member The Truck Graveyard
Across the road from new truck sales
Lay a yard filld with trucks that died
These vehicles' voice offer tales
Once on them a trucker relied

They thought that...

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Categories: relied, funeral, life, nature
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living In My Car
It wasn't planned or by design,
But, somehow it worked out just fine.
My bank account was fairly high.
I lost my job and said goodbye
To all the...

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Categories: relied, freedom, growth, imagery, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A "highly" Debated Issue
From glaucoma to chemotherapy
Medical marijuana has its place
But you won’t find any prescribed
In the conservative Sunshine State

Chris couldn’t eat while under treatment
Watched him lose one-hundred...

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Categories: relied, healthpeople, people, drug,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Signal Box
when industry
stood on this soil
with chimneys that 
spewed sweat and toil
the furnace fires 
relied on mines
through arteries 
of railway lines.

now looking back 
to charcoal skies
through...

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Categories: relied, art, beauty, imagery, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Summer
From June to September
I cannot remember
A damn thing that I did
What took me over
Was a monster called Bipolar
Which escaped from the shadows where it hid

And...

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Categories: relied, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like a Child
When I said what I said I felt justified
I thought surely that God would be on my side
Quoting from scripture I relied on the word
A...

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Categories: relied, faith, god, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Undercover Lover
I didn't even see you coming but yet u want me to watch you leave 
A room filled with silence, and the sound of broken...

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Categories: relied, break up, love, love
Form: I do not know?
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 35
His was,
A kiss of promise
A kiss of challenge
A kiss of power
And a kiss of doom
Where our lips had met
He was a threat, a strident peril
And...

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Categories: relied, dark, deep, fear, fire,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Bs About Eating Pancakes On Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras parades are rolling the streets again
I watched 'Isis' from inside my windowpane
A king and a queen were pretending to reign
but from the colorful...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relied, celebration, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Building a Bridge To Your Heart
Building a bridge to your heart


I know... I wasn't there for you
I know... I disappointed you
but... I didn't want to
break your heart

I know...you relied on...

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Categories: relied, courage, forgiveness, future, metaphor,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs