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Best Stoking Poems

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


Fireflies
It's so dark outside, my eyes can't distinguish where sand meets water. Somehow, dusk has come and gone, plunging the evening into darkness. 
 
But...

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Categories: stoking, love, nature, me, light,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Life's a Beauteous Dream
I dreamt a dream that renewed kindred memories
Rekindling past passions of moonlit love-themes,
Enamoring love-embers blooming heartfelt longings,
Crooning hints-romantic~ life’s a beauteous dream;

When merrily you enthralled...

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Categories: stoking, dream, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: stoking, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Internal Inhibition
How fondly he recalls when doting moon stared
Blush of her radiant smile gleamed opaline skies
While cuddling stellar vibes love they declared 
And embracing her allure...

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Categories: stoking, angst, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To a Raven
Fearless Raven, soaring in
the rich, dark chasm—
that world of shadows, echoes,
cliffs and crags chaotic,
the void of subtle stirrings in
a quintessential midnight—
Make some room for me
on...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, angst, bird, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Germination
Ah, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom 
of  spring to summer  fall to winter  
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at...

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Categories: stoking, birth, faith, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tuesday Humour
TOP GUN.

A keen jet pilot broke the speed of sound
A loud sonic boom he caused on the ground
House windows were broken
The whole town awoken
Claims from...

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Categories: stoking, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Love
My love asked me so sweet,
Am I lovelier than a moonlit treat?
I vowed to her with all my might,
When I gaze at you, the moon...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embers of a Memory--Dad's Song
Our hands and our feet were warmed from the cold,
while the campfire burned into embers and coal
The song that he whispered combined with the sparks,
and...

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Categories: stoking, dad, nostalgia, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire
Flames of desire mesmerize
Instantly provocative to tantalize
Recklessly smoldering embers stirred
Enticing arousal... seduction occurs
 
Stoking the fire again and again
No strings attached is only plan
Both have...

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Categories: stoking, betrayal, fantasy, fire, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Inanevilpredatorialmendacity
What a slap in the face!
It’s an international disgrace!

(Descriptive distraction)
and (subversion in action)

It’s now commonly used in parlance by judiciary
while in literature this prevalent (lie)...

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Categories: stoking, caregiving, literature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Oceans
Reigning vitality you buoy on vigor of freedom
Hugging distant continents, caressing lively shores
Eternal since birth of time, ceaseless evermore,
Sensational, immense, omnipotent, abundant,

Enthusiastically you uplift glorious...

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Categories: stoking, ocean,
Form: Personification
Color My Dreams
 Between me and empty sheets 

you've painted my colorless dream 

you took me to places 

to your heart's oasis 

There I bathed, gowned only...

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Categories: stoking, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Allure of a Mature Woman
Thrills of ardent aster in Fall bloom,

   whispers and lips in butterfly tease -

     stoking hearth’s heat in surrendered...

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Categories: stoking, autumn, beauty, flower, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Need For Love
My need for love
is never sated
it's not dated
but continuously present
ever feeling
always reeling
from its demands
it gets out of hand
you can't possibly understand
My need for love...

My need...

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Categories: stoking, how i feel, longing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things