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Best Revered Poems

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


Premium Member Disposable Wisdom
Each day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?

Pride...

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Categories: revered, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: revered, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: revered, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: revered, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: revered, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Live For the Day - POTW - A Visual Video Poem
POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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Categories: revered, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gifts of the Fourth Chakra
Wild spirit -
I cherished you tender 
within my halo of prana;
careful not to hurt you
as I worked to set you free
using hands of peace
in harmony...

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Categories: revered, forgiveness, freedom, growth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Inspired by life’s goals, winners are...

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Categories: revered, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: revered, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: revered, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Robert Lindley
Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that which Life commands
placing her true love, in its...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: revered, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Mirror of Life
As I stand mindfully, facing mirror of my life,
Juxtaposition of yesteryears’ reflections revive 
Mountains of grief and valleys of despairs,
Heartwarming wins and heartbreaking losses,
Echoes strumming...

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Categories: revered, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: revered, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Take Me to Xanadu
O, take me there, where mystical realms of starlight glisten
Pearlescent tapestries, indulgent in ethereal aura of Venus,
Emboldening me in celestial embrace, swept in your love,
As...

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Categories: revered, love, romantic,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Poetry Soup
Written: May 14, 2024

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Oh, how life has...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: revered, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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