Best Six Poems
Below are the all-time best Six poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of six poems written by PoetrySoup members
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
six, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
six, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
six, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Military Tunic~Homeless~
A lost guardian angel, sitting on the edge of everything
I push my shopping cart along the cracks of destiny
My house sits on...
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Categories:
six, memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
six, america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
six, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Love Has Its CostsTHIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...
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Categories:
six, desire,
Form:
Narrative
Worst Love Poem Ever WrittenI suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...
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Categories:
six, cancer, cry, death of
Form:
Elegy
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...
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Categories:
six, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)
Leaving under a blood moon
...
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Categories:
six, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
six, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
This Was Meit began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...
i felt safe as...
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Categories:
six, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Loving YearsDark honey tanned skin glistens
From the moisture of humidity.
The ladies flirt shamelessly with
You, but your eyes...
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Categories:
six, autumn, beach, husband, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise.
An...
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Categories:
six, life,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The ConclusionIt was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...
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Categories:
six, america, death, western,
Form:
Narrative