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Best Sane Poems

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


Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: sane, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Yesterday's Fragile Truth
Betrayal devastates your trusting heart,
severing love's bond; before it can start.
And depression slowly entraps your soul
as disparaging lies exact their toll.

Chameleon clouds change to match...

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Categories: sane, angst, betrayal, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Brave
The brave are more than ones who battle on
in fields of warfare, showing valor true
The brave are more than those that wars have won
There is...

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Categories: sane, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Letter To My Future Self
Hey are you still breathing?
Are you still believing,
or is your heart seething?
Does life still have meaning?
How's the word weaving,
is the ink still bleeding?
Tell me, does...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sane, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unloved
She cocooned herself
Spinning the thread tightly
Around her troubled mind
Knowing out there
Out there were the people
Who watched her unwind
Who could not be kind
Losing ground
Every day
She fought...

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Categories: sane, crazy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Train of Thought
Am I dreaming 
or have I dreamt myself awake
I can’t seem to discern 
between real and fake
What’s right 
What’s wrong
which direction 
should I take
Am I...

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Categories: sane, allusion, anxiety, child, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finally
Finally 

Doctor, it's been 7 months 
The MEDs aren't kicking in

My dreams are getting stronger, 
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...

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Categories: sane, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: sane, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Tit For Tat Poetry
you read out of obligation
a tit for tat consolation
a "thank you for your visit" affirmation

it's cool, this unspoken rule
I do it too, so what’s new?
It's...

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Categories: sane, community, poetess, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: sane, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To Victor Buhagiar
He's a gentleman who knows the meaning of grace 
he has earned my respect and my great admiration 
Bless his beating heart for all the...

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Categories: sane, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covid-19 Haunting Fear
Silence is deafening
Like a dungeon dark hallway.
Door after close door of bounding
Moans and groans, and painful
Yelling gasping for air.
I sit in this cold
Dark cell shivering...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sane, emotions, heartbreak, sick,
Form: Free verse
Just Your Face
Futile is the sun to a heart in awe
And trivial is the moon's cosmic fame

All these voices are nothing but noises 
These Flowers are like...

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Categories: sane, joy, love, smile,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Spill your Ink
Spill
your ink
on blank page.
Express your rage.
Suppression only leads to mental pain.
Without catharsis, art is trapped in cage.
Trauma will stain,
as you age.
Gain your
stage.
Sage
soul smiles.
It's worthwhile
to tame...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sane, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Tetractys
Another Day Another Chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NISkmC_4bNQ

We are graced with a gift and it is to be unwrapped, every morning 
as gentle as the peeling of the light when it falls...

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Categories: sane, appreciation, life,
Form: Rhyme

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