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Best Skipped Poems

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


Premium Member Impressions From a Stone Skipped On Water
He grabbed me up from where I lay, peaceful in the sun, 
with my brothers and my sisters round about me. 
I felt four digits...

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Categories: skipped, character,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skipped, child,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member After the Party
After the party and all our great fun,
new friends were trickling out my front door.
With their goodbye hugs, they left one by one,
and I was...

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Categories: skipped, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jewelry Notebook
"MARRY ME" -- The Sweethearts Valentine Candy

I write with passion in every line,
A poet bleeding words, in black and white

Elegant, like a fine glass of...

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Categories: skipped, happiness, heart, me, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I...

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Categories: skipped, blessing, christian, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme



Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: skipped, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
I Didn'T Answer, I Didn'T Need To
I didn’t answer, I didn’t need to

How did this happen,
amidst words, phrases,
stones skipped on poetic ponds
Not looking for or expecting
a touch to the heart, a...

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Categories: skipped, love,
Form: Free verse
Waking Before I Found Love
I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore 
Searching for...

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Categories: skipped, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Meadow - 100 Best New Poems
I walked into a meadow
Such beauty did I see
Turns out it's been here
All this time
Revealed so gently

I walked into a meadow
Tamed in part
Yet mostly wild
I...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skipped, appreciation, friendship, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stillness
I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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Categories: skipped, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - True Love Never Dies Or Lie -
As time flows gently by and we grow old in each other's arms
Sailing away on our memories each rising sun seems brighter 
I love the...

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Categories: skipped, beauty, blessing, happiness, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shweet Love
The minute our eyes met 
it was love at first sight

I knew you were the perfect one for me
my parents tried to keep us apart
but...

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Categories: skipped, childhood, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Return To Share Poetic Gifts
It was nearly two years ago, that I left the PS site
Bidding my friends fond 'farewell,' I took flight
If the door is ajar, I think...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skipped, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Periwinkle Time
"The Periwinkle Time"



Blues crushed prepossessing Violet
Lavender starbursts 
sharp as diamonds
undressed, a soul preys 
with black as crow feathered lashes
that rim the open mirrors 

There in...

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Categories: skipped, freedom, imagery, love, mirror,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Between the Nightmare and the Dream
In my grandpa’s field I stand midst rows of grain
 whose gray-green blades stir softly in the moaning wind.
A night chill permeates my skin.
I look...

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Categories: skipped, cute, house, nostalgia, old,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things