Get Your Premium Membership

Best Successive Poems

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


Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Beauteous Affinity
I was a fashionable interior decorator, beautifying comfortable, loved homes;
And selecting wall paints, fabrics and furniture, like the sparkle of gemstones.

I worked closely with eager...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, beauty, change, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legacy
In the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants
inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’
John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance,
some joined...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, angst, dark, destiny, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Day and Night Greet Each Other
Remnants owlish wisdom wafts through nighttime’s purple sky.
Fox settles down with her kits, against a nurturing oak stump.
Meadow and forest perform their nightly slumbering rituals.
Vigilant...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Blank verse



Memories of Good Old Days
Memories of good old days


When memories give you tears, 
you sit, there is nowhere to go,
and you have the worst of fears,
Can you ever retain...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, emotions, love, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Sea Storms Lullaby
In the rocking, rolling surf I picked up a random seashell,
And just listened to the sea storms lullaby, the curling of
Spray urged a hushed soft...

Read more of this work...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successive, adventure, beauty, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Dreams
In a subconscious state of mind
both real and unreal intertwine
and twist each others attributes
into dark Eidolon recruits.
These phantoms perform roles assigned
So well they trick the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, imagination
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Never Again
Silently, she lies there listening to sirens off in the distance, 
On the bed where they just recently enjoyed each other’s passion.
The neighborhood dogs, barking...

Read more of this work...
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successive, angst, lost love, saddark,
Form: Free verse
Sins of the World Washed Away
Sins Of The World Washed Away:

The mist shrouds and floats in the valleys,
gentle wind moving it slowly.
Overcast skies, day gloomy,
bringing forth small rain drops.
Refreshing the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, life, nature, world,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Midst Enthralling Sunset Delight
Here am I enthralled by sunset delight
while beholding celestial beauty blend with horizon's majestic sight 
in letting go of this day's triumph as well as...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, appreciation, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lilibonelle Poetry - To Win a Heart
TO WIN A HEART
To win a heart you must be true.
Integrity, should you win let it be part of you.
You'll find no need for compromise,
True...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, integrity, true love, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Pounding of the Hammer
“I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.”

             ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, dark, halloween,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member We Were Two
memories are the sweetest recompense when faced with imminent death ~ by poet

We were two for forty amative years.
I turned toward you for comfort and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Quatrain
Mistake-Free Poems I'Ll Give You
Two successive dates
I failed to hit the mark
I'm sorry for the mistakes
And the crestfallen shark

On the first, I didn't use
Much needed commas and slashes
Flowers I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: successive, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs