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Best Shady Poems

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


Premium Member The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank
In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were...

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Categories: shady, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shady, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind
~~The Wind~~
            
Look into my eyes
Follow me into a world of ecstasy
There and only...

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Categories: shady, beauty, deep, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: shady, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative
Moving On
I'm not selling a house, i'm leaving my home.
Happy times together, months spent alone.
Morning sickness, baby loss, labour and birth
Planting my seeds in good strong...

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Categories: shady, child, emotions, family, garden,
Form: I do not know?



Since You Have Washed Over Me
Since you have washed over me
~

Drifting on a meandering stream
where clover dance and ripples direct my thoughts
to the promises of a new day

I dream I...

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Categories: shady, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can'T Get High Enough
I started sucking my thumb until it looked like a plumb
Things didn't feel any better so I poured a glass of rum
Some will imagine I'm...

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Categories: shady, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rush of Emotions
She sat beside the waterfall
where gushing thoughts cascade,
like tears that flowed along her cheeks,
her heart set to invade.

He left alone for pastures new.
A scribbled note...

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Categories: shady, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: shady, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Skeletons of Lace
Skeletons of Lace

Autumn’s leaves decorate lanes with discarded artistry –
 A bright collage in maple, oak and poplar hues;
Too soon the colors fade like early...

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Categories: shady, autumn, death, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tale of Righteous and Just Demise of Old Jack
Tale Of Righteous And Just Demise Of Old Jack

Old Jack had shot many before, once just for the sheer hell of it
Never squeamish about the...

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Categories: shady, art, creation, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fancy Dancer
As she leaps on pink and satin cloud,
Beauty is with her, like a shroud.
In sunny mist, a twilight stream,
She laughs and frolics as in a...

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Categories: shady, beautiful, dance, imagery, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Never Reached Home
They are walking! Walking, walking, walking! 

Long stretches of walk - hundreds of miles of impossible uncertainty,
in blazing sun, in sweltering, muggy, heat - running away...

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Categories: shady, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Losing Things
Today I thought I lost my keys
And knowing what’s at stake,
I searched like crazy, but my husband
Took them by mistake.

An hour later, for a class
Of...

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Categories: shady, me, today,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shady, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things