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


Premium Member Healing Power of the Drum
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: respond, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where Your Eyes Shine I Want To Lie Down
where crystals gleam 
i want to lie

where the scented lily opens
reveals its stamen
tender as babies breath

as unavoidable as our sun's and moon's provocative union 
as...

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Categories: respond, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respond, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: respond, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lady In Green POTD
I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.

Lost...

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Categories: respond, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Sojourn Through Time
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in
Opulent hues that color our lives as we age and
Journey through changing circumstances with 
Obstacles that crop up unforseen,...

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Categories: respond, inspirational love, journey,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: respond, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mental Hospital Bills
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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Categories: respond, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Country 'Tis of Thee
You, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...

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Categories: respond, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eye Power- a Collab With Justin
You possess me with those eyes of pyromania
a tidal wave of temptation thrashing into my need for euphoria
romanticized on appetite for agile reckoning of kiss...

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Categories: respond, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: respond, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All Her Dreams Turned To Dust
No one followed her as she ran away
fleeing from the altar on her wedding day

She’d been jilted by Jed her handsome groom
so locked herself away...

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Categories: respond, betrayal, sad love, wedding,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Autism
I rise at the center of...
Is it a room? This is a face.
There is motion, too fast, too clamorous.
Cryptic and opaque. Shapes shift
into my field...

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Categories: respond, me, mental illness, self,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: respond, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...

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Categories: respond, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs