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Best Stright Poems

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


Being Saved
When we were lost,
    How did we feel,
    Before we came to the cross
    Is God...

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Categories: stright, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse



Paint Me Ablaze / Lali Tsipi Michaeli
Paint Me Ablaze


paint me ablaze 
like Rome 
start from the head eyeballs mouth nose 
castle 
hills via neck 

harnessed 
dusty roads 
long hands fingers of...

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Categories: stright, loveme,
Form: Lyric
Christmas Toy
I'm just an old cowboy Christmas toy
One that's not feeling all that fine
That's because all I want for Christmas is to be a kids toy
One...

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© Billy Wild  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stright, confusion, cowboy-western, depression, christmas,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My Heart
Truth or Dare?
The feeling comes within my heart,
Don't know why its so stright up,
High above I can touch my feeling,
Look stright at it and know...

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Categories: stright, happiness
Form: I do not know?
Cookies, Milk, Monkey Bars and Guns
COOKIES, MILK, MONKEY BARS AND GUNS

WE HELPED LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR THEIR FACTORIES
THE FOUGHT WITH ENMITY AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES
WE RODE RAILS TO ANOTHER PRISTINE CITY...

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Categories: stright, angstchildren,
Form: Quintain (English)



Masks
How many masks we wear a day?
The Happy mask, when on our way.
The Smiling, saying - "How are you".
Not even asking, so, it's not true.
.
When...

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Categories: stright, confusion, games, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Trash
Trash, Smashed paper on the street That means nothing to the world old woren out objects
that set on the floor and rot on the spot...

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© Jeff Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stright, family, life, sadworld,
Form: Rhyme
Fly Sola
I FALL TO MY KNEES ASKING PAPA DIOS TO KEEP MI FAMILIA SAFE FROM 
THE FAKE SMILES THAT GO CON LA BRISA ITS NOT EASY...

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Categories: stright, blessing, deep, faith, feelings,
Form: Bio
My Rainy Days
The rain keeps pouring down on me puddles of water start to suround me.
left right up down no matter where I was looking its falling...

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© Barb Wiste  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stright, childhood, rain, tree, water,
Form: Free verse
Building Our Life On Words
... we are building that famous tower
are we going to use different languages?
and so all our efforts would fall?
or, are we going to create the...

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Categories: stright, faith, imagination, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Your On My Mind
YOUR ON MY MIND ,
I CANT STOP 

YOUR ON MY MIND ,
SO I CRY ALOT 

YOUR ON MY MIIND ,
WOUNDERING IF YOUR OK 

YOUR ON...

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Categories: stright, husbandsleep,
Form: I do not know?
Words of the Soul
a pen to a page with stories to tell
if words could paint a picture what object would that picture sell
 
a scribble a scratch a...

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Categories: stright, lovehistory,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Always Wanted To Tell You
I've always wanted to tell you.
I love you without knowing why or from where.
I love you stright forwardly without
reason or pride.
I love you because I...

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Categories: stright, first love,
Form: Light Verse
Past
Lost in my life
everything is a myestery
i can not describe
what is happening in history

for life is not pain
going insane
when people have life
then the time perscribes...

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Categories: stright, art, history, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Theres Some Hope Left
~Theres Some Hope Left~

I stare at this Empty Chair,
And try to look my best,
Imaging he is there,
Looking stright back,
But all this is not real,
None of...

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Categories: stright, life, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things