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Best Store Poems

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


One Brief Moment
Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...

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Categories: store, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: store, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Revelation In the Rain
She briskly walks in January’s rain,
which drums the endless rhythm of her pain,
pulling closer round her shoulder in the downpour
the leather jacket he so often...

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Categories: store, lost love,
Form: Couplet
There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: store, fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: store, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative



Premium Member When I Dream Deep
As the mornings sun - begins to shine 
And memories of yesterday - I leave behind 
I get to see - another rising sun 
And...

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Categories: store, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: store, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: store, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Wish I Were a Unicorn

I wish I were a Unicorn
   So smooth and white with shiny horn
To prance and dance on clouds up there
   And...

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Categories: store, horse, imagination, inspiration, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: store, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gathering Wool
Cleaning out one of your drawers,
I remove your beautiful woven sweaters
     one    by    one
 ...

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Categories: store, lost love,
Form: Free 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: store, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Be Grateful, My Dear
Give thanks if you're healthy
  And give thanks if you're not;
Make sure to appreciate
  Whatever it is that you've got.
Just be grateful, my...

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Categories: store, inspirational, religious, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: store, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique
The Amorous Mystique

Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of...

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Categories: store, art, beautiful, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

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