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Best Simple Poems

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


Premium Member Parallel Poetry


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Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.

~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~

Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating...

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Categories: poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form: Rhyme



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simple, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Me


Deeply dipped in red, the Heart of a Rose
explaining the motive behind this act
Purpose being, to open and expose
knowing not how, the Soul will truly...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Contemplating Calculations



  You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
 ...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unreachable



Intangible, the term your lips lightly exhale,
just as the wind found its voice -
           ...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Simplicity
Small, simple flowers bright as can be
Weaving in and out of the breeze
Turning a moment into full simplicity
As I walk under the cover of green...

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Categories: flower, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Butterfly Nebula
Butterfly Nebula

Far away in the night
A sky full of stars
A song full of notes
A story full of words
And, most importantly…
A poem, full of Light!



I can...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simple, angel, beauty, courage, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Longing for Love


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Lightly touched in soft sapphire skies
the deep blue of those loving eyes
Hair flows upon sun kissed skin
through flowers and back again
I feel your smile, even...

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Categories: longing, love, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member keep


sun shadows through my hair 
in my heart you drift, before sleep
daylight dreams dancing everywhere
heart-prints glide, almost there
you are a dream i wish to keep

stars...

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Categories: dream, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Selfie or Call Me Insensitive
You call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.

You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...

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Categories: simple, angst, culture, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the ecstasy of words

Press play to hear the music
Bliss- Composed by Daveed
_________________________________
~ because i love the sweet touch of words ~

image- pinterest.com/evstratov/miri/


Thursday August 15, 2019- Poem of the...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mysterious and Magnetic



  - - The way we were
           in poetic form, underlined and understood,
 ...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not my Choice



Dear mom, dad -
keeper of my DNA,
it was not my choice to be conceived 
( these actions you are about to take,
   ...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Respect the Blue


- life is precious -
thoughts from the heart...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member waiting to be held




Thoughts from the Heart

...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sometimes I Wish


_________________
 Just a little Scribble

Image- Imgur.com
Poetry by- Brandy
...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member loving intentions
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wanted to shelter you
keep you from harm
erase all your pain
extend loving arms
offer my warmth
under winged canopy
escape for one moment
and be...

you and me

~~~~~~~~
...

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Categories: angel, care, love, simple,
Form: Verse
Premium Member THE WHISTLING HAMLET

A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: simple, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Hope
Don't rush to wash off the sea salt 
drying on your skin;
the hopes it carries from other oceans,
those remain yet to be seen.
...

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simple, august, beach, beautiful, cool,
Form: Verse
Innocence
On days of childhood past
and long faded into memory,
sisters played beneath a smiling sun
in shadowed rooms of bending willows.
Dainty handkerchiefs swaddled
our Rose of Sharon infants
to...

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Categories: childhood, flower, simple,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breathless Southern Nights
Relaxing to a rain song serenade
Which breaks the stillness of hot southern nights
Fat bullfrogs harmonize while crickets play
A melting moon drips waxy yellow light

The motion...

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Categories: appreciation, nature, night, simple,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where Beauty Lies
I saw a dragon flying overhead
In fascination watched him flap his wings
Then suddenly, he was a thoroughbred
Whose smokey breath came out in giant rings

How gracefully...

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Categories: imagination, simple,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Treasure Me



Sand sweeps over, as the sweet salty air
tickles every part of my being,
tracing curves

Temptation can be overwhelming,
for someone like you

Seek and you shall find
beyond the...

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Categories: simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Support Your Local Poet
“Support your local poet please”
Said the man with hand out and down on one knee
I’m down on my luck
And for only a buck
My humble verses...

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© Chris Hagy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simple, character, perspective, poets, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member JEWEL IN THE SKY



					      o how
                 ...

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Categories: simple, beautiful, fantasy, moon, night,
Form: Concrete