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Best Starring Poems

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


Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: starring, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In 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: starring, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My New Year's Resolutions: Humor
I have tracked my New Year's Resolutions 
over the years these are my fantastic results.

Resolution One

2011: I will try to be more attentive to Lauren.
2012:...

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Categories: starring, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: List
Premium Member Our Courtship
He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full...

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Categories: starring, lovetime, me, time,
Form: Narrative
All About Cecilia
Middle child of seven siblings and has had a troubled childhood
It has made me a stronger person, just not easily understood
Had a baby at seventeen...

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Categories: starring, introspection, life, me, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Witch and the Tiger
The witch and the tiger sat on opposite sides of the moon,
Starring at each other, wondering who would eat whom

The witch was cagey, wily and...

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Categories: starring, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yet I Stayed, Wooed By Nascent Azure Sky
Cheerily blew ocean breeze in beach-park
Till fiery tides climbed bouncing giant rock
Spurred on by the churning clouds hosting dark
As hazy winds ravaged paths on your...

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Categories: starring, rain, romance, storm, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stepping Into the Temple
I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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Categories: starring, god,
Form: Free verse
Surreal Stars Viceral Dreams
As i looked up to the sky

The darkness ever so slightly dissipated

And was replaced by the majesty, grace,
wonder and beauty

Of a billion plus stars

Some so...

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Categories: starring, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is Mine, All Mine
This is Mine, All Mine                    ...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starring, happiness, nature, pets
Form: Free verse
I'D Love To Be.....But!
I’d love to be a model
Tall and thin like Jerry Hall
But I like fish and chips too much
And I’m only five feet tall

I’d love to...

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Categories: starring, funnylove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raven and the Wolf Always Together Eternally Apart
Always together; Eternally Apart
Raven and the Wolf

A raven beauty lurks in an endless banquet 
of shifting, ashen foggy moonlit night.
Burst of stimulating woven blanket;
lovers sail...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starring, fantasy, love,
Form: Quintain (English)
Are We There Yet, I Really Have To Pee
This is something other than unsure laced with heavy heart.
I'd love to change my mind,  is this where you take charge?
When our play begins,...

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Categories: starring, abuse, addiction, creation, love
Form: Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots I
Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach...

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Categories: starring, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Grit
My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of...

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Categories: starring, america, death, loss, murder,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs