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Best String Poems

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


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: string, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: string, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: string, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Jack Ellison Tribute
Eighty two years young, but still a trooper,
pen writes daily, he's an evergreen souper.
Behold the limerick king and his wisdom,
providing laughs from his humorous kingdom.

Five...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: string, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Had I Known Love
Had I known love, flowers would have bloomed in Spring
I would have danced when hearing whippoorwills sing
But in my heart no seeds of love were...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: string, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Part Time Poet
She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...

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Categories: string, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Climbing Mt Hope
I reach the edge of the woods
and glimpse
the summit:
high, far –
and daunting.

I must not look up too much,
for I might lose courage.

I need patience,
to string...

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Categories: string, inspirational, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Rare Are We
To me it's always been crystal clear
my emerald heart sheds tear after tear

Intense, easy to emote
it's to love I devote 

His golden flakes beat in...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: string, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal Epiphany
When rainstorm shadows
cast raven woven blankets,
entangling between 
the boundaries of 
fantasy and reality's reach,
we search for soft glows
from serenades of slumber,
where we embrace
the quilt of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: string, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: string, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gentle Summer Rain
She writes about Fall's beauty in the rain 
The falling raindrops' dance ascribing thence 
Bespoken verse that lightens her refrain 
before the time they met...

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Categories: string, beauty, care, creation, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
I'M Not Your Puppet
I’m Not Your Puppet

Don’t you ever forget
that I’m not your puppet! 
I’m not a toy on a string that you can manipulate,
so you can walk...

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Categories: string, break up, goodbye, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bedtime Story
Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun...

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Categories: string, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form: Couplet
Categories: string, devotion, faith, hope, love
Form: Concrete
Premium Member A Unicorn Spell
Opening wings spreading out
one pure beautiful image in beholding 
Gracefully embracing inside visions 
greeting Mother of pearl shimmering rainbow hues
Her horn sparkling tipped diamond 
Under...

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Categories: string, beautiful, beauty, love, paradise,
Form: Free verse

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