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Best Responds Poems

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


Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: responds, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Holding Back the Time
In visions of yesteryear where there was love
Nothing but despair on the faces of hope
And shattered remains of a romantic fairytale
Whose happy ending has been...

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Categories: responds, lost love, sensual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: responds, allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member Beyond the Breakers
Calm, cobalt seas beyond the waves beckon
Baby Boomer surfer responds
he stands upon his nicked, red board
placing his precious cargo on its deck

tired arms paddle to...

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Categories: responds, farewell, sea,
Form: Free verse
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: responds, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dissolving Heart
“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new...

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Categories: responds, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Pirates Life
He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a...

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Categories: responds, adventure, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
Heart of a Poet
It jumps not to the thought of riches or the prospect of gold
For common treasures are not what it seeks
But rather it responds to that...

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Categories: responds, imagination, passion, people, social,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Silent One
Silent One is a new friend of mine
A more loyal friend would be hard to find
Every day he responds
Strengthens our bond
I'm honoured to have such...

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Categories: responds, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: responds, death, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Knight Rises
He rides towards the setting sun
Further and further from his special one
The sound of his armor clanking with each hoof beat
Perspiration horse and rider oppressive...

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Categories: responds, beauty, blue, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Friend, My Love
I imagine being there in enchanting places
Conjuring up insights of sensuous images
Driving friendship to threshold of romance
Confessing my love when she isn't around.

When the uplifting...

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Categories: responds, friend, friendship love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Breathe Open Form
Let's meet 
     on 
        side
        of
...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: responds, analogy, appreciation, beauty, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Connecting These Two Friends
Many people do really make good friends
but they've different traits that attract the other
so one responds to one and indeed vice versa
then it works in...

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Categories: responds, character, friend, relationship, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Praying Mantis
Oh, praying mantis, there with majesty,
you hold your slender arms so still and sweet,
in prayer like form that somehow makes us see
a kind and gentle...

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Categories: responds, betrayal, insect, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs