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Best Sit Down Poems

Below are the all-time best Sit Down poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sit down poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Nature Speaks To My Soul
I stand alone in natures beauty,
     in the woods by a trickling stream.
I feel the presence of my destiny,
  ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sit down, beauty, dream, feelings, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sit down, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: sit down, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014
A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)

I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.


"A Rational...

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Categories: sit down, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeds of Wisdom
A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from...

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Categories: sit down, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: sit down, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: sit down, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member D-Day In Malta:::Co-Write
We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour...

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Categories: sit down, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Simply Too Good To Be You
I guess we can struggle when we sit down to write
But use your own words - to plagiarise isn’t right
When I read a poem that’s...

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Categories: sit down, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Me,Myself and I
When me and myself
Are feeling sadness
I sit down to chat
With the both of them
Finding the reasons
For their troubled minds

We have time to chat
I would speak...

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Categories: sit down, image, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Then We'll Be Dead
Whispers and intrigue 
and things that shan’t be said,
not uttered or stuttered--
minds shuttered instead.

You cannot, you shall not,
believe your own eyes.
You must put your trust...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sit down, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Body, Your Touch
Your feelings in a group of touring innocence
travel up North towards trust and sincerity
in sweet submissive care like a carefully rubbed suede.
You put day light...

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Categories: sit down, emotions, i love you,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...

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Categories: sit down, child, children, family, morning,
Form: Rhyme
The Gift From Prison
On a pleasant Sunday morning,
beside a river in a park,
I went strolling in the city,
in the dawn just after dark.
Every bench; any haven,
slept a host...

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Categories: sit down, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Fancy's Space
I wonder . . . do you know where poets go
whenever they sit down and start to write?
I think the answer’s easy. We should know
it’s...

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Categories: sit down, poets,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Shattered Sighs