Best Talked Poems
Below are the all-time best Talked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of talked poems written by PoetrySoup members
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
talked, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
talked, music,
Form:
Narrative
The Land of the Midnight SunI went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...
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Categories:
talked, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form:
Narrative
The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek BankIn the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were...
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Categories:
talked, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Paper Boats(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)
You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...
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Categories:
talked, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Love Sleeps, Never DiesAn old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire
Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...
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Categories:
talked, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form:
Light Verse
The Malkavian..Part 1The Malkavian..Part 1
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
His family, drained...
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Categories:
talked, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Life In EternityLIFE IN ETERNITY*
1.
The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent...
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Categories:
talked, birth, life, universe,
Form:
Epic
At the Golden Dawn of Understanding PotdIt was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.
My fourth graders were...
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Categories:
talked, africa, christian, education, history,
Form:
Couplet
Love MattersI spent my life working hard
Built a house paved with slabs
Garden grass with rainbow roses
Show house bank account and cars
A lady from the village...
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Categories:
talked, i love you,
Form:
Rhyme
A Chasm In Soup CreekAll heads are bowed in Soup Creek today
The town’s elder statesman has passed on his way
A gentleman true whose tongue wasn’t forked
To whom people listened...
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Categories:
talked, appreciation, remember, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
A Bedtime StoryOnce, 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:
talked, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Couplet
You Never Know Till You Get To KnowOne dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.
Once all...
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Categories:
talked, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Night I Fell Like RainYou had that future retro look: two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the...
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Categories:
talked, destiny, water, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
What I Should Have Said ThenRemember that night, one of so many of course
When the waitress asked if we were on our first date
We’d talked for three hours till our...
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Categories:
talked, devotionwords, day, friend, me,
Form:
Quatrain