Best Rolling Poems
Below are the all-time best Rolling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rolling poems written by PoetrySoup members
When I Stop and PrayWhen the storm clouds boil around me,
And the lightning splits the sky--.
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...
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Categories:
rolling, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
rolling, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed...
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Categories:
rolling, art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
rolling, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Uncharted WatersAn ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,
yet I am...
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Categories:
rolling, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
rolling, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The View From a WindowA view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...
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Categories:
rolling, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poetry CollectionHourglass
Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass
Falling Down Stairs
Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...
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Categories:
rolling, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Old ManSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...
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Categories:
rolling, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
rolling, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
rolling, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
OceanaOceana
Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...
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Categories:
rolling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Crying RiverCrying River (The Untold Ballad)
Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...
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Categories:
rolling, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-PlayingThe farm
and the porch light hums
the sound of another
orange dawn.
Burnt up – crisp
...
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Categories:
rolling, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
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:
rolling, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form:
Free verse