Best Tell Poems
Below are the all-time best Tell poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tell poems written by PoetrySoup members
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
tell, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
tell, people,
Form:
Free verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
tell, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed...
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Categories:
tell, art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Categories:
tell, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form:
Free verse
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:
tell, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
tell, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
tell, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In the StarsWritten in The Stars
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Two hearts bleached by the sun
A poem's - fallen wish
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Categories:
tell, fantasy, love, muse, romance,
Form:
Free verse
I See You Says the MoonThey'll have you believe she was lost to the sea,
But the moon would beg to differ.
She was always lost,
Always looking for which way to go.
Or...
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Categories:
tell, moon, sea, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
I Want Your Seeds**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel...
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Categories:
tell, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
In Strangler's WoodIn forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
silent shadows waver...
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Categories:
tell, death,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
tell, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Waterfall Wishes On Stars With No SwingsWaterfall wishes on stars with no swings
I’m sending to you on butterfly wings.
Pennies are wasted on a wishing well.
Pennies instead for sweet thoughts that you...
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Categories:
tell, dream, love,
Form:
Quatern
Old ManSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...
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Categories:
tell, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose