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Best Thought Poems

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


Premium Member The Poet Who Never Was
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...

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Categories: thought, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: thought, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reflection
**REFLECTION**

Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thought, abuse, death, for her,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Wintered Soul Among Wisteria
One need not read her horoscope to know
this woman's fate, and though wisteria
cascades sweet blooms of lavender like snow
outside her door, it's still Siberia
pervading the...

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Categories: thought, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: thought, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: thought, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities 
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a 
few forests. A ruby red swirls within 
its petals beckons awareness of those...

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Categories: thought, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You 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: thought, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: thought, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: thought, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Like Zephyr Breeze
Before I ever saw those eyes      How deeply I loved you.

Before you read my first thought    ...

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Categories: thought, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: thought, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: thought, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: thought, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: thought, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs