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Best Statements Poems

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


Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: statements, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Photos With Glitches On Invisible Wings
You're a camera obscura, a broken bell's rings,
You made me dance slowly on sad phantom strings.
You always had the slightly off-color touch,
Your insensitive skin never...

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Categories: statements, perspective, relationship,
Form: Quatrain
Eating Crow With New Collaborations
No matter how some complain and bellow
they are exposed, each a trolling fellow
I'd look them in the eye
for telling one more lie
but I heard they're...

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Categories: statements, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Ballymurphy Massacre
Martin Luther King junior was the inspiration
For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association
Protests were held and they marched peacefully
The unionist majority tried to stop them...

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Categories: statements, ireland, murder, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Riding On Ellison's Qua-Train
It is on this day
Into his elegant horizons
Where cirrus clouds are sprayed from sunrises and sunsets
Attuned within throat of violins

An example of his concave humanity
Preaching...

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Categories: statements, dedication, friendship,
Form: Quatrain



Time For 'Enough'
Are we not tired yet?
When will we feel it is time?
Time to put our feet firmly on the ground
Call ‘enough’ boldly by its name
See -...

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Categories: statements, community, leadership, political,
Form: Lyric
A Blessing Or a Curse
Facebook I wonder if you are a blessing or a curse?
People Sharing their pictures and videos of their best and worst.

Clever sayings, obscenities, prays and...

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Categories: statements, humorous, internet, social, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member British Invasion-1964
There was talk about the nuclear bomb
There was a war going on in Vietnam
It was on the news, the drummers were drumming
Look out America, the...

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Categories: statements, history, music, world, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is Wrong With Him
She’s not right.
She has something wrong with her.
She has a screw loose.
She’s got problems.

What is wrong with him?
How do we fix that?
I am no doctor...

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Categories: statements, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
And In Reply, I Wrote
What a load of malarkey I just read... 
befuddled in disarray inside his head,
but let me make it clear.  The message I see
is a...

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Categories: statements, baby, birth, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chalk Line
Chalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and
little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch.
How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes
do you imagine have...

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Categories: statements, anger, death, grave, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Waste of Space
I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden...

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Categories: statements, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Forgive Me Lord - For I Have Sinned
O' Forgive me Lord; for I have so sinned 
I put my rubbish; in my neighbours' bin

It wasn’t like there wasn’t, enough room
But did she...

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Categories: statements, funny, humorous, irony,
Form: Light Verse
Frozen Ground
I bent down to pick up a penny from the frozen ground.
I could smell myself, the acrid stench of sweat and soot,
the taint of vapored...

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Categories: statements, angst, death, loss, sadme,
Form: Prose Poetry
Origin of Christianity
Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary...

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Categories: statements, bible, christian, faith, history,
Form: Didactic

Book: Shattered Sighs