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Best Roper Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: roper, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: roper, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member To My Granddaughter
I look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes 
Your sails adjusting, full...

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Categories: roper, grandchild, light, trust,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Squalling Seagulls Sip Morning Sunshine
Squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
Greeting new sun, spanning over vast sea
Wailing upon hills, watching freedom shine
Sprinkling over prairies echoes of glee

Greeting new sun, spanning...

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Categories: roper, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Pantoum
You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: roper, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Twenty Titles
On an early spring morning, butterflies 
 flutter among  dancing leaves,
  While windsongs float within a breeze
 As the monarch flies

 In a...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roper, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roper, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Hourglass Wears Wings
In shadow 'neath the shining of a soul 
a heart trembles
for her lost 
control.
Hope 
lives 
in Him
who forgives
trespass and sin
as flight with Mercy’s angel does...

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Categories: roper, angel, death, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member She Dances To Her Music
She dances to her music gracefully,
     her choreography, at whim, profound.
With graceful twirls and spins, so dreamily,
    ...

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Categories: roper, dance, inspiration, muse, music,
Form: Sonnet
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night

A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of...

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Categories: roper, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lost Fisher Boy
Playing at night on rocky ground, he sprained his foot.
He hobbled onwards careful where his foot he put.
The lonely shepherds had long returned to their...

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Categories: roper, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Twenty Titles of Fabulous Friends
Tell me
how did we get here 
at a swishing swapping party?
(The voices echo in emptiness) 

Bubbly cheerful and happy, naked and raw 
forever bachelors Larry...

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Categories: roper, humorous, poetry, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today Is a Gift
Hold on to those moments

Of Spoken words of

Meaningful

Sincere

Love

Tomorrow might never

Become the present

© By Eve Roper  
6/22/2015...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roper, love, spoken word,
Form: Verse
The Unicorn
The Unicorn

Once upon a time…
an incredible event occurred that was so sublime.
On a warm summer night many years ago,
awakened by the rhythmic tempo
of hoof beats...

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Categories: roper, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tale of Fairies
A long, long time ago in the land of Fays,
     lived a forest nymph of beguiling beauty.
    ...

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Categories: roper, fairy, children, joy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things