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Best Staining Poems

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


Premium Member Obsessed With Love
Hate is an unnecessary need
in the book of necessities.
Love is the key component
within the book of obsessities.

Lust is an unfaithful guide
misguiding towards fake perceptions.
Sincere love...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staining, analogy, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This I Believe
I had a dream...

I am sleeping on a cloud. Upon awakening, I gaze at planet earth below. From my vantage point I can see the...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staining, future, hope,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: staining, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
Crimson Rain
On a still...ancient horizon,
Massive dragon wings emerge,
To the atmospheric battlefield. 
Where two legendary beasts,
Clash for the love...of a dragoness.

A battle of mythic proportions,
Of two stonily...

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Categories: staining, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oblivion
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk


Is there such a metaphor as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staining, abuse, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fool of a Poet
the times I've been here, words in hand
          mind-sculpting verse of phrases, grand
   ...

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Categories: staining, heartbreak, introspection, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member no heroes - WWI -
   heroes?

there are none here, now ... ever ...
      don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
 ...

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Categories: staining, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loneliness
Inside this Gothic womb, now but only a cold cavernous hollow
the votive flames steal away in puffs of smoke
as I kneel, atom-like, lost in loneliness.
Alabaster...

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Categories: staining, dark, emotions, loneliness, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eyes
Her delicate silhouette still lingers in my eyes, 
closer than these arms can embrace; haunting me. 
I breathe her in within the lull of a...

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Categories: staining, loss, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Free verse
A Crooked House
We lived in a crooked house.
Built on a muddy mound of hope with the corpse of yesterday half buried beneath
Sad eyes and smiley faces. A...

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© Zed Zed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staining, childhood, home, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Ballad of Love
As the chandelier dances with lustrous light.
Eras of still slumber awoken...from fluid dreams,
...in the depths of her confines...hibernating..
..fermenting her taste...timeless beauty.
 
Legends of vineyards past...uncorked.
Poured...

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Categories: staining, love
Form: Free verse
Deserved Rewards - Inspired By the Life and Poetry of Sylvia Plath
In ode to all who succumb
through wayward passages
lined of scribble notes
dripping ink’s savagery,
staining cursive patterns
in Sylvia-like depressions

Jarred bells ring
down lost tunnels
around each dark corner…clang
from steeples...

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Categories: staining, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The British Weather
It's the only land that you can
get all seasons in one day
you name it UK displays it
all the colors from blue to grey
 
It certainly...

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Categories: staining, england, seasons, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: staining, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Days of Wine and Roses
Flickering in the night, a melting’s texture of regrets afterglow,
Candlelight’s waxed drippings staining the white laced table cloth,
Yet in the black and white photo album...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staining, art, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs