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Best Seated Poems

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


Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: seated, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Had I Known Love
Had I known love, flowers would have bloomed in Spring
I would have danced when hearing whippoorwills sing
But in my heart no seeds of love were...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seated, love,
Form: Rhyme
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: seated, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
The Widow Among Roses
The widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet 
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers...

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Categories: seated, death, depression, lost love,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the...

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Categories: seated, hindi, people, places,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gathering of the Golden Girls - Soup Convention
Four “Golden Girls” seated at a table
Grey streaks our hair, but minds remain stable
     Convention is underway
    ...

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Categories: seated, friendship, funnytime,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: seated, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Walk In Winter
Twin, silver cathedral bells, sway and chime.
As every note peals out, clear and sublime.

No winds blow through the sky, this silent night.
The peaceful heavens, filled...

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Categories: seated, nature, romantic, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: seated, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To An Injured Fox Cub - With Thanks To Michael Coy
Today I found you cornered, drenched in cold,
your fur coat nothing but a newborn's down,
a tiny ball unfolding while I hold
you shivering. Your lacerations frown

and...

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Categories: seated, analogy, animal, hurt, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On My Own
On My Own

It is early in the day for most. 
I am just going to sleep. ‘
This will make many people angry. 
But at times,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seated, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tea Leaves On the Bosphorus
Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the...

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Categories: seated, adventure, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Narrative
My Shoes
I have this thing called ADHD
The H isn’t silent, I’ll help you to see
Ever since I was small, it’s lived inside me
It affects who I...

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Categories: seated, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Honeyed Words
She felt his hands so gently lift her hair
Her fingers trembled on the moistened quill
She knew his lips would graze her shoulder bare 
Her writing...

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Categories: seated, analogy, sensual, symbolism,
Form: Epic
In Eternal Sleep I Will Find Thee, Julia
As fiery beacons 
Blaze
And cut through the
Night;
As restless sleep
Doth so tax and
Trouble me;
And I hang upon 
A promise:
That my love
For thou
I did most fervently 
Swear...

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Categories: seated, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme

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