Best Retention Poems
Below are the all-time best Retention poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of retention poems written by PoetrySoup members
Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join InI’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!
I...
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Categories:
retention, body, clothes, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
A Flight of DreamsA prelude to darkness will glide on wings of twilight,
Night will slip its ebon shawl upon the sky
and twinkling stars will loosen dreams
...
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Categories:
retention, dream, night,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Time To RumbleBe brave my lads. It's time to rumble
Jump into battle but beware the tumble.
Stay on your toes or you might stumble.
Getting lost will make your...
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Categories:
retention, humor,
Form:
Monorhyme
To Albert Bandura: I Wish You KnewI wish you knew the depth of knowledge gained
How instrumental are your thoughts to me
Through teaching what I’ve learned, I have been trained
To revel in...
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Categories:
retention, tribute,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
retention, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Electric Shock TreatmentI'm sure this has happened to most of you
You come up with this brilliant thought
Before you have a chance to write it down
It vanishes like...
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Categories:
retention, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
Weather ReportI forecast: anticyclone set, unmoving
The descending air evaporates and dries
Over Wales and England weather is improving
We predict a full eight eighths of cloudless skies
Or in...
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Categories:
retention, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To SpringOde to Spring
Lovely lady kisses winter good-bye
Then writes her name upon receding snows
Her signature flames in rose twilight skies
Lingering, she begs daylight not to go
Dropping...
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Categories:
retention, joy, life, song, spring,
Form:
Ode
When a Flower WaitsThey sit with a purpose in sight
inviting me sweetly with bright
yes they bloom at will
cuz they know the drill
those flowers of sentinel light
Competing...
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Categories:
retention, appreciation, nature,
Form:
Limerick
Walking With FaithFor yesterday is but retention and tomorrow is only a vision
Encouragement is filled with strength and vigor
Love is not easy to anger
Life is not...
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Categories:
retention, faith, inspirational, spiritual, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Didn'T Mean ToIt was a heartfelt indulge of an act
The night like knights we lighted
Like a king yah served my want
Like a deal we moved on and...
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Categories:
retention, art, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Age of Forgetfulnessfrom "Awaking", by Stephen Spender:
"After night the waking knowledge --
The gravel path searching the Way;
The cobweb crystal on the hedge,
The empty station of the day."
I...
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Categories:
retention, age, change, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Skill and TalentIs skill and talent that sacred
As to earn me daily bread
Pleasurable and luxurious things
As a place before kings
And unending sentiment
Of transcending compliment
Is skill and talent...
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Categories:
retention, christian, senses,
Form:
Couplet
MotherlandWith each morning comes a new genesis
That today would craft a dissimilar, Then
The echo of my voice to be perceived too
As it outs...
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Categories:
retention, freedom,
Form:
Quatrain
Elastic---AcrosticElastic stretches bit by bit, around your thick dimension
Lets you wiggle, if you're pudgy, from too much fudge retention
A second portion...now, you're ecstatic....Alas,...
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Categories:
retention, funny,
Form:
Acrostic