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Best Residency Poems

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


Premium Member Ecotherapist Conventions
Truth is a feather 
pushed off to the other side.

Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.

OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...

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Categories: residency, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Changes
I've grown rusty and unused to summoning words from a blank page - but FINALLY - there's something new to describe. School (11th grade) is...

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Categories: residency, 11th grade, confidence, journey,
Form: Free verse
A Portrait
~A Portrait ~

A mother feels that her life resembles
 to an unpretentious painting 
hanging on the wall in her residency,
it projects nothing except 
emptiness,stagnant,old,
no ocean...

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Categories: residency, devotion, emotions, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pictures of a Good Father
When it comes to being a good father what do most young black men see? 
Can they picture their fathers passing down any legacies? 
Do...

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Categories: residency, black african american, father,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Uniting States of Wisdom
We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and...

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Categories: residency, culture, earth, love, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody...

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Categories: residency, body, christian, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ecocitizens Coarise
EcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!

EcoLogicians of sustainable tribal might
CoArise!

EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!

What is our highest and best Commons Sense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal...

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Categories: residency, addiction, community, creation, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Waiting Fire
"The nature of the Authentic [Love] Self is always already spiritually [naturally] motivated, turned on, tuned in, ready to respond to the radical [co-arising] immediacy...

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Categories: residency, fire, light, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Social Privy
justice 

What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you? 

Too what ends? 

May we seek? 

Who(m) may guide us? 

Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)

Debated...

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Categories: residency, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Love
The local priest asked me to pray 
I did but I had doubt
For a while I lost my way
and I was holding out .

For me...

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Categories: residency, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Alpha of Modern Life
It is a field composed of four times more stones than grass
with a spectacular traditional residency, making its habitat almost homogenous
is this global historic street...

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Categories: residency, community, earth, education, environment,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Immigrants Gone Native
I suppose it isn't rather nice
to think of us this way,
but to the squirrels
and the trees,
the robins and the grasses,
human natures are Earth's great transitioning...

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Categories: residency, earth, environment, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Hardworking, Hard Headed
Hardworking, Hard Headed
Enthusiastic, Loving, Caring, Ambitious
The Daughter Of David 
In Love With Little Mix, Netflix, And Youtube
Who Feels Guilt, Pain, And Sorrow
Who Fears Spiders, Snakes,...

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Categories: residency, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
Worst Nightmare
The doorbell rang.
He looked at the clock through blurry eyes.
4:29 A.M.
Who could be here so early in the morning?
He turned to his wife fast asleep...

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Categories: residency, angel, car, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Few Answers
God will greet you and raise your soul,
Help you climb above meet daily goal;
As usual should I have to hate to preach, 
How to write...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: residency, encouraging,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs