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


Premium Member King Arthur - a Collaboration With Darren White
He is the king of words and poets alike
Assay as you may, this man you won’t smite
His armour sparkles in night or day
Defending those too...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renowned, art, friend, friendship,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: renowned, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Bakers Of Milton Creek
The sun was rising over Milton Creek, heralding the start of a new day
Two new residents were due in town, on the noon train from...

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Categories: renowned, america, humor, western,
Form: Narrative
No Greater Love
For God so loved this sinful world, He gave us all His son;
That we might live with Him one day, when life on Earth is...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renowned, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Awaking From Stupor

When the enchanted 
jailors of life, 
siezed my soul 
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts 
ceased to 
script a twinkle 
above screams, 
I became a 
slave to my...

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Categories: renowned, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ragnarok: the Storm
With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle

In the forest crows the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renowned, weather,
Form: Epyllion
Premium Member Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner
He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He...

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Categories: renowned, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My City
Of the Gods own country
of this paradise
where green and blue
merge as one
in the north is a city
that encompass the beauty
where the dream lands meet
lined by...

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Categories: renowned, beach, beauty, city, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jan Allison
Jan Allison


There is a great gal on our ‘Soup’
Renowned in our poetry group
She’s ready to show
How our poems glow
With comments that give us the scoop.

Sincere...

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Categories: renowned, appreciation, friend, poetess,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Armadilly Billy, the Slingshot Kidster
Armadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing...

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Categories: renowned, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: renowned, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: renowned, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
Premium Member How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon
Two ladies named Jan and named Lin
professed a forgivable sin
they cornered a dragon
wrung her in a flagon
and gave her away as cheap gin

The old dragon's...

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Categories: renowned, fantasy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Green- the Colour of Spring
Green is made up of blue and  yellow
Renowned colour of spring you see
The sun and sky help things to grow
Brings out the blue/green in...

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Categories: renowned, spring,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cruise To Alaska
The trip was a riot of color,
It brings a myriad of queries,
Fantastic tales of utter darkness,
Views' visible roots were explored. 

Mainsail surges,
pungent froth carried wave...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renowned, analogy, appreciation, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse

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