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Best Repertoire Poems

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


The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: repertoire, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Voice of the Last Acorn
Image credit: Wikipedia


People amble by in view of the placid lake
Mesmerized by horizon adorning scarlet
While not far from the Oak tree, I stealthily lay
Enthralled in...

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Categories: repertoire, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Mockingbird
I recognize a tune from album of your songs
And listen intently to impressionist sounds
As you hop scotch from branch to branch
Like a child all excited,...

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Categories: repertoire, bird, song,
Form: Personification
Poet To Poet
Intimate musings are part of a poet's repertoire;
flights of introspection and reflections,
savored more when shared with kindred spirits
A poet can speak to another poet
with an...

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Categories: repertoire, introspection, perspective, poems, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Velvet Nights
I love the way you melt into my eyes,
And speak to me in fluency unheard,
That says to me your lust is on the rise,
My body...

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Categories: repertoire, love, passion, relationship, romance,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Nightingale Sings of Dawn's Glory
Cobwebs of thoughts dangle in forlorn corner
Spun by emotions that surrendered long ago
Still hanging out, anguished, in grip of throes
Engrossed in silence while gazing night...

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Categories: repertoire, break up, hope, love
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sing Now, All the Birds of the Earth
As soft winds rustle leaves upon forested hills
And fog envelopes depths of verdant valleys
Receiving a missive from auroral emissaries
When the night that dreams of trills...

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Categories: repertoire, bird, earth, nature, song,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow
The other day I was lucky
enough, to see you; 

you made my blush 
you made me cry 
you churned the sky 
with every color 
known...

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Categories: repertoire, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Joey Alexander-More Than a Boy Genius
He plays jazz as if he invented it
Arpeggios augmented, minored and majored
Transferring from one chord to another
Like flashes of lightning extracting emotional pearls 
all from...

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Categories: repertoire, boy, child, children, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rider
In a mass grave so long ago,
They spoke to me before they died,
I saw their souls, the outward flow,
All hope buried beneath that tide.

The many...

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Categories: repertoire, humanity, mythology, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member He Says - She Says
[He says]Never say ?I can't? 

     Why on Earth not meet defeat
     admit you're seldom right
 ...

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Categories: repertoire, introspection, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Diaspora of Her Soul
Amidst the binge of the champagne, and the glitter on the faces, she heard the 
distant lullaby. Glistening repertoire of appreciation elated her, but her...

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© Iman Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repertoire, death, introspection, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Enchantress From the Sea
She will rise from the water, in the midday afternoon
Lightly vaulting from darkness and a bright diamond throne
Splashing forth as a fountain, spilling colors of...

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Categories: repertoire, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoned
Gripped by transgressions in life of destitute
Withdrawn she lived in deviant troubled youth
Orphaned long ago by her own living parents
When in substance abuse she buried...

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Categories: repertoire, baby, emotions, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Six Brothers In Harmony
Every one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repertoire, brother, music, together,
Form: Sestina

Book: Shattered Sighs