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Best Stays Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: stays, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Ballad of the Poet
*The Dead Poet*

Many blocks along the road, 
Kicking down walls of heavy stones, 
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...

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Categories: stays, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Forest
"What happens in the forest stays in the forest"

The trees are trimmed, 
The leaves on the ground 
Proposing passion, sweet mist
Naked with nothing to bare...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stays, art, imagination, passion, seasons,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: stays, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member If Ever I Don't Know
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and 
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
 ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stays, age, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member About Me
My life is like that of a commonplace horse
that stays where they’ve put her all day;
she lives very much like the others, of course,
accepting her...

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Categories: stays, imagination,
Form: Bio
The Measure of Love
How does one measure love in scope or scale?
  For if such ledger ever was designed
Then logic would over the heart prevail.
  So...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stays, love, true love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stays, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Butterfly In My Pocket
I have a butterfly in my pocket,
that will never fly again.
When I think back to yesterday,
it’s a pretty reminder of my pain.

Butterflies aren’t meant for...

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Categories: stays, angst, farewell, leaving,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Forbidden
~ZOMBIE NIGHT~ 

WHINING WHISPERS MOVE ACROSS FORBIDDEN LAND
Rugged ruins crumble silent through the night
Echoes of the dead roam the air
Moonlight vanishes to complete despair
Bones slowly...

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Categories: stays, confusion, death, halloween, horror,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet
A love that lasts a summer,

A song that last forever,

A cry that will end in a short while,

And yet the morning stays in denial....

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Categories: stays, life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dark Everywhere
A softer breeze blows his way
And a sunny day shines everywhere
Painting the sky blue and grey. 

But those hues are not for him,
For him it's...

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Categories: stays, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall - Sweet Lass
A Constanza (in Connie's own precious poetry form) written in tribute to this amazing friend and poet:

A lass so beautiful is she,
and like a dear...

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Categories: stays, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: stays, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Barn's Story

Worn wood is on the barn
like wrinkles from a hard life
Many long years have passed
It served its purpose, now filled
Things people didn't want to let...

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Categories: stays, memory, time, words,
Form: Free verse

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