Best Starter Poems
Below are the all-time best Starter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of starter poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Plate of DisorderA Plate of Disorder
Are you ready to Disorder Sir?
What can I tempt you for a starter,
May I recommend the Turmoil Soup?
Garnished with Havoc Green Tartar.
For...
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Categories:
starter, anger, confusion, food, mental
Form:
Rhyme
A Seven Year Old's EnthusiasmExcitement echoed
In my heart
First experience
Of being a part
Now looking back to
Those times, thoughts
Flood like the cold rain
And ties me in knots
Enthusiastically
Grabbing the end
Of the...
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Categories:
starter, 2nd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Race the Finals Spoken WordI wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a
team
And that
Because we have run
through the preliminary trials as selfish...
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Categories:
starter, africa, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
The Isle of Man TtOur sleepy little Island in the middle of the Irish Sea
Opens its eyes slowly for the Isle of Man TT
The Island bursts into life with...
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Categories:
starter, home, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
The Camp of the Dead ChildrenEmily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die
Tommy of...
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Categories:
starter, beauty, introspection, love, sad,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Ptsd I Don'T Want To SleepI know I'm really tired
I just don't want to sleep
I guess I'm just really wired
Dreams will make me weep
I'm scared to see those things and...
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Categories:
starter, anxiety, courage, depression, fear,
Form:
Free verse
She Wore Pineapple Rings For GlassesShe wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery,...
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Categories:
starter, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form:
Monorhyme
Gabriela Anderson -SchiessGabriela Anderson Scheiss was a long distance runner
Who ran the marathon in the Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty four
You probably...
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Categories:
starter, dedication, race, sports, usa,
Form:
Rhyme
Blowing In the WindThere once was a fellow named Carter
Who ate refried beans as his starter
He’d blow off his horn
From dusk until dawn
and was a persistent loud farter
24th...
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Categories:
starter, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Next Christmas It Will Be So So DifferentAnother Christmas day is finally here
The very thought fills me with such fear
I have to try and control my old Aunty Mable
Once she hits the...
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Categories:
starter, christmas, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A Father's EchoThe arrival of his departure
(A numb and cruel upheaval starter)
Was an emotional core rupture;
A final goodbye to her father.
She saw his final, last inhale,
That...
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Categories:
starter, bereavement, death, devotion, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost KeyWhere did I leave it,
the key to my heart
Guess it doesn’t matter
can’t find anyone
To give it a jump start
It’s been so long now...
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Categories:
starter,
Form:
I do not know?
Categories:
starter, angst, anxiety, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
The MeasuringAsked to measure love, what can you say,where do you start
easier starter,contentment, fulfillment and trust but,
no oceans depths nor deserts wide, can capture
to the galaxys...
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Categories:
starter, love
Form:
Free verse
Arbeit Macht FreiThe first weakening of night
picks out telephone lines,
black against sky.
The eyelid of a garage door
lurches laboriously up.
A car coughs blue...
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Categories:
starter, society,
Form:
Free verse