Best Spill Poems
Below are the all-time best Spill poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of spill poems written by PoetrySoup members
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
spill, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
spill, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
Cup of EmptyShe pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams
Moonbeams...
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Categories:
spill, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
Swan Ballerina PagesLike delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.
But what are ballerinas with...
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Categories:
spill, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Personification
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
spill, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
My Poetic GardenIn my silent sanctuary,
my poetic garden blooms like sun kissed seeds,
carefully placed under a quilt of soil,
sprinkled with holy water.
In the vividness of morning mist,
spring...
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Categories:
spill, assonance, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Star-Crossed - For Love of Day, For Love of Night(this is a form called Swap Quatrain, where first
line's phrases swap in the last line of each stanza)
In shadows’ veils, at end of night,
sweet Moon...
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Categories:
spill, may, moon,
Form:
Personification
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
spill, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
She Wept In Languished MoanShe wept as they buried her one true love.
Each day thereafter she brought him a rose,
the flower she knew he was fondest of.
Her grief unbearable,...
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Categories:
spill, bereavement,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The World As Seen Through a Poet's PenA bright array of rainbow hues
adorns the parchment now and then,
and gives a glimpse of writer’s...
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Categories:
spill, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...
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Categories:
spill, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Across the Border"La Voz"
La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...
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Categories:
spill, anger, corruption, how i
Form:
Free verse
Manipulations Of FateI wait—
here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me free me
here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...
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Categories:
spill, death, fate, life, lost
Form:
Free verse
Who Is Cutting Down the Trees In the Rain Foreststhe lullaby of butterflies hums
in the early morning air.
a rounded light of gold
above the purple clouds
spots a blue filtered peak.
trees unite as one...
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Categories:
spill, nature, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...
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Categories:
spill, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets