Best Show Poems
Below are the all-time best Show poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of show poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Poet Who Never WasI thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...
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Categories:
show, emotions, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
show, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
show, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
PoetsWhen all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...
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Categories:
show, appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
HandsWith all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
My Hands -The Artist-
My hands paint everything in my life
they...
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Categories:
show, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
show, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form:
Free verse
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
show, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
The Fallen Poet(The Fallen Poet)
Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...
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Categories:
show, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form:
Free verse
GrandpaThe old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.
He gazed upon a little...
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Categories:
show, childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form:
Couplet
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren RobertsWithin reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories.
...
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Categories:
show, life,
Form:
Verse
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:
show, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars"I dream of Candy!"
Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares
A living diabetic's nightmare. -- My heart
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...
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Categories:
show, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form:
Alliteration
Land of LightsA sweep of milky waves flood onyx sands
converging under endless summer skies
of northern lights in iridescent bands
Icelandic talismans of tales sublime.
A glassy sea of crystalline...
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Categories:
show, beauty, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Haiku - Celestial Seductionlights weave through snowflakes
teasing and twirling about
distant stars dancing
a brilliant display
wearing only hand-me-downs
the moon steals the show
~FJ Thomas
01/01/2020...
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Categories:
show, moon, night, snow, stars,
Form:
Haiku
MoonlightPainting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"
your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon
as we have every month...
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Categories:
show, death, love, love hurts,
Form:
Ekphrasis