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Best Staying Poems

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


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: staying, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: staying, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wave and Shore
I am a wave.
From far I come to you
Swimming with desire.
In wild curls I come,
Riding with music,
Travelling on sunbeams.

Within my hidden folds,
I carry the thoughts...

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Categories: staying, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boy Oh Boy and a Girl
I wish to claim
My boyness
My yesterday sillyness
Innocent shyness
My crinkled nose grininess
That hide and seekiness
Spin the bottle 
kind of geekiness 

Getting caught 
My hand in the...

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Categories: staying, adventure, boy, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: staying, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Stars and Those With Stripes
"America First",
is the worst.
Should not thinking of others,
be your thirst?
Those who are selfish,
end up being cursed!
Soon they'll be last,
instead of first.

Who among you,
prefers guns and...

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Categories: staying, black african american, class,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: staying, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Seeds of Wisdom
A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from...

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Categories: staying, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wax and Ink
Staying near to light my way
     now that there is no more day
You're needed to so brightly burn
   ...

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Categories: staying, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: staying, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member The Single Mother
A single mother is standing alone 
And she will cry when nobody's home 
Staying up late with thoughts in her head 
Doing everything she can...

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Categories: staying, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forlorn Hope
Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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Categories: staying, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Winged Words
Like a creature hibernating in its burrow
Waiting to come out with the first verdure of spring,
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart
Through...

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Categories: staying, analogy, betrayal, birth, growth,
Form: Verse
Sun and Moon
. I am the moon

hanging solitary in the sky

watching sails fluttering by

breathlessly against the wind.

I'm just a rock ,dark,unknown

without a light that is my own.

Yet...

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Categories: staying, absence, beautiful, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Awake
AWAKE  ~ IN and OUT ~

Spring arising, before morning light,
I walk under the new epic sun
The aroma of yesterday, gone
Today's the day that will...

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Categories: staying, addiction, adventure, betrayal, cute
Form: Free verse

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