Best Rock Poems
Below are the all-time best Rock poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rock poems written by PoetrySoup members
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
rock, music,
Form:
Narrative
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
rock, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
rock, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Mind DanceMind Dance
I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow
Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...
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Categories:
rock, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
rock, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
To the Dandelion In the ConcreteYou probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...
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Categories:
rock, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form:
Personification
There Is No Telling the Things You Might FindPicking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...
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Categories:
rock, fun, love, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispering MemoriesTraveling through the doorway in my heart
I emerge
Gently closing it
I place my palms on the worn hinges of time
I lay my ear near its surface
As...
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Categories:
rock, appreciation, emotions, green, heart,
Form:
Free verse
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...
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Categories:
rock, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
rock, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Devils Deadly DimeDevils deadly dime
The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...
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Categories:
rock, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...
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Categories:
rock, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the...
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Categories:
rock, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...
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Categories:
rock, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Miracle On Ford StreetSt Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...
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Categories:
rock, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative