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Best Temptation Poems

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


Premium Member Temptation Itches On All Living Things
Temptation Itches On All Living Things

Temptation itches on all living things
often nobody knows just how it stings,
not the icky-glues in its sticky pastes
nor the rotten...

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Categories: temptation, art, conflict, deep, humanity,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Liquid Heaven
Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...

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Categories: temptation, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form: Free verse
Still Waiting
You loved me just a little
You never loved me long;
But you gave my soul serenity
And gave my heart a song.

You loved me for a moment
I...

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Categories: temptation, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Relieve My Heart of Its Ache
These trembling lips cannot bear to remain mute
when their quivering begins in my deepest root
Surf upon the wave's crest of a stimulating ride,
Enter my secluded...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temptation, longing, lust,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: temptation, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse



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: temptation, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Dancing With the Devil
Lost between the borders of heaven and hell,
confusion led to this story, one must tell.
Surrounded by a world full of violence,
I closed my eyes and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temptation, angst, introspection, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: temptation, holiday
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Burning in fire
  sperantza voi chi entrate qui.
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here"

A story I must tell about an angel who fell.
One of the deadly...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temptation, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: temptation, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Do Men Cry
Are men supposed to show their strength
denying doubts and fears?
Should they pretend to play it cool
concealing all their tears?

When things build up would weakness urge
temptation...

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Categories: temptation, character, men, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Do You Remember Me
They walk silently along my hallways.
Floors littered with faded finery.
Do you remember my Granduer?
I had once been called the Queen of the sea.
Pulled down to...

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Categories: temptation, beauty, bereavement, eulogy, fish,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Eye Power- a Collab With Justin
You possess me with those eyes of pyromania
a tidal wave of temptation thrashing into my need for euphoria
romanticized on appetite for agile reckoning of kiss...

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Categories: temptation, passion,
Form: Epic
Yellow Heart
This morning I wrote a poem
about a yellow heart 
pining for red fusion,
in a desperate attempt
to shake the fruit
that never 

falls

And tonight I am alone
without...

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Categories: temptation, hope, life, love, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chasing Pandora
Prometheus had erred and caused great ire
when stealing in stealth secrets of fire.
But Zeus could not forgive this deed.
The chieftain of gods punished his greed.
The...

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Categories: temptation, hope,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs