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Best Sobers Poems

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


Premium Member Seen Through a Half Glass
Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
and see...

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Categories: sobers, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Circuitous Discourse
Who are we really?  It’s my nature to—to what and how do we know it’s our nature, an inherent part of us? “The Scorpion...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sobers, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Shoe
He could be someone’s father
Or brother
Or friend.
He could be
The one to cure cancer,
The one who
Saves a child
From a burning building,
The one who
Sobers up
And leads
Others to
Do...

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Categories: sobers, courage, hope, people, recovery
Form: Narrative
Premium Member As the Clouds Dance - the Free Style
~As The Clouds Dance In The Sky~
( Free  Flow )


As the clouds
Move in the sky
I can see their shadows
Dance and play
They shrink and
Expand in...

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Categories: sobers, beautiful, dance, love, sky,
Form: Free verse
Magufulization
Slenderly community 
The land of sobers
Enough for plunderers 
Ground of Ivory
Home of diamond and gold
Is now Magufulized 

No more embezzling
Lazy are working
Respecting their roles
No more...

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Categories: sobers, africa, appreciation,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Puberty Blues
Through all my changes I was a dreamer
  and lived a trepidation and a ruse,
but when she lay bare and I between her
 ...

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Categories: sobers, blue, nostalgia, teen,
Form: Sonnet
Haiku 14 - Honeyed Hangover
garden hands caress

herbal scents intoxicate

sharp bee sting sobers

Copyright, July 1, 2017...

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Categories: sobers, garden, nature, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Unzipped Lips Part Ii
So my first lesson taught me, if intellect spawns logic, then of that I want no part! 
“Orwell” Had the answer;
in satire the presidium displeased,...

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Categories: sobers, day, life, old, work,
Form: Free verse
What If
What if I told you the sky was purple 
and that the clouds were really a dark green 
could you imagine the luscious possibility 
Or...

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Categories: sobers, art, beauty, confusion, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Summer
I have no doubt that 
 soon it will be summer.
The daffodils have taken flight,
 fire no more warms the night.
The rain has gone,
 no...

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Categories: sobers, change, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Holiday Tale
A commoner King usurps the crown
   Marries a blueblood of royal renown
Drunk as can be, in an imperial mood
   Orders the...

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Categories: sobers, anxiety, holiday, jewish,
Form: Narrative
A Rainbow
I made my way across the drunken pavement,
Glimpsing at the sun, which kindly offered a watery beam.
The sweet, earthy air filling my lungs,
As the weary...

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Categories: sobers, art,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 17 Gray Street - Port of Spain
                A Simpler Time
      ...

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Categories: sobers, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let It Go
Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
 ...

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Categories: sobers, hope, inspirational, introspection, life
Form: Narrative
I Remember the Man
I remember the man.

He is the best friend that one could ever have,            ...

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Categories: sobers, introspection, life, time, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs