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Best Significant Poems

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


Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: significant, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Days That Brought Me Here
I thought I would go backwards
Into my uncertain
My awkward
The days of my wondering
What will I be when I grow up?
Will I ever grow up?
Is everyone...

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Categories: significant, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shape of Water
So much to know, so little time to learn
To think of all the unsolved mysteries
Still trying to understand all that we know
How sad, most go...

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Categories: significant, environment, life, perspective, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: significant, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: significant, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lifes Simplicity Maintained
You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...

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Categories: significant, career, character, cheer up,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Karma
Yesterday, I followed her true invisible form
Colors turning a kaleidoscopic deep and warm

A state of mind, that makes reality feel alive
Stabbing moments that teach how...

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Categories: significant, bullying, conflict, life, universe,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: significant, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Little Kindness Never Hurts
I’m at my happiest
When my heart overflows
With kindness and gentle compassion
And feel the energy of the universe
Radiating from my heart

I feel my best when I...

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Categories: significant, appreciation, community, encouraging, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stoic Path of Virtue
Written: October 28, 2023
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Among the living is where perfection is found.
Stoicism...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: significant, analogy, appreciation, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Meaning of Life
Through life...I've learned the meaning of love.
Through love...I've felt the feeling of heartbreak.
Through heartbreak...I've felt the feeling of pain.
Through pain...I've learned the meaning of acceptance.
Through...

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Categories: significant, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Bio
Special Memories
Anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions

marking significant moments in our lives

bringing back precious feelings

reliving a once upon a time.

The first time that I met you

the butterflies I...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: significant, anniversary, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Betrayed
Once significant and alluring, your luster faded.
Perhaps it was the treachery in hollow eyes jaded.

Was there ever a light
in a soul dark as night?

Promises of...

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Categories: significant, jealousy, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Absolute Truth-Full Liar
A golden coin flipped into the sky
One side is absolute truth
the other side is stamped with lies
Hope it lands right/wrong side up
so you can partially...

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Categories: significant, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Speech
I spoke into the microphone, as tears interrupted my speech
The dread of public speaking, overcame me, like hearing a screech
Then I sort of rambled on,...

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Categories: significant, celebration, change, water, words,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs