Best Take Ten Poems
Below are the all-time best Take Ten poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of take ten poems written by PoetrySoup members
ShadowIt was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...
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Categories:
take ten, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...
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Categories:
take ten, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song VersionWelcome to a brand new world
Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...
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Categories:
take ten, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form:
Lyric
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
take ten, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
take ten, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My HangingA funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...
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Categories:
take ten, brother, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Someone Who Used To Be YouWhen splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies
I...
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Categories:
take ten, dream, lost love, love,
Form:
Blank verse
The Longings of An Old ManI long to—
Walk one more time
To where the land ends, and the ocean begins
To listen expectantly for the sounds of infant waves
Grasping layers of golden...
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Categories:
take ten, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Library of Trust and HopeThe Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope
(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)
She was all but...
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Categories:
take ten, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form:
Light Verse
To the Dandelion In the ConcreteYou probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...
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Categories:
take ten, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form:
Personification
Survivors GuiltIt'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:
take ten, death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
Squalling Seagulls Sip Morning SunshineSqualling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
Greeting new sun, spanning over vast sea
Wailing upon hills, watching freedom shine
Sprinkling over prairies echoes of glee
Greeting new sun, spanning...
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Categories:
take ten, bird, imagery, nature,
Form:
Pantoum
Love Has Its CostsTHIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...
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Categories:
take ten, desire,
Form:
Narrative
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
take ten, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Midsummer BreezeMidsummer Breeze
How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...
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Categories:
take ten, flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Form:
Sonnet