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Best Simply Poems

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


When I Stop and Pray
When the storm clouds boil around me, 
And the lightning splits the sky--. 
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...

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Categories: simply, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Unspoken Words
I often scribble in the sand 
The words I find so hard to say
And hope the wind will come along 
And blow them all your...

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Categories: simply, words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: simply, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simply, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: simply, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Maltese Moon
The Maltese Moon,
she draws my eyes
to shapely orb
in starlit sky
she smiles at me
with wanton grace
and spills desire
upon my face
I'm all awash
in milky glow
sacred secrets
Mine to...

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Categories: simply, beautiful, introspection, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garden of Mum
Mum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.

Her eyes were tired,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simply, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Belle of the Ball
My dress is made of fine peach coloured lace
Hair is in ringlets, which frames my pretty face
The lights in the room cast a romantic glow
My...

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Categories: simply, dance, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pathway To Love
As I sit watching fusions of saffron and scarlet hues 
elegantly charm the horizons.
Silently, fluffy lush clouds float by
like a magnetic field drawing me closer,
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simply, longing, love, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: simply, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Yesterday's Fragile Truth
Betrayal devastates your trusting heart,
severing love's bond; before it can start.
And depression slowly entraps your soul
as disparaging lies exact their toll.

Chameleon clouds change to match...

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Categories: simply, angst, betrayal, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simply, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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Categories: simply, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Wonderland
~  My favorite Thanksgiving memory was, quite simply, a walk at my grandparents house - I'll never forget how nature spoke to me that...

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Categories: simply, appreciation, beauty, nature, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Worth More Than Millions
Jesus gives me directions
To love as He has loved
With a sincere compassion
That knows no conditions

This love of His has no limits
It goes beyond worry and...

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Categories: simply, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Free verse

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