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Best Toward Poems

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


Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: toward, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: toward, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: toward, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: toward, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member One Regret
Now walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...

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Categories: toward, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member First Communion
The powdery snow gloves the fingers 
of maple forest, protecting barren bark 
with the expectation of rose tipped bloom.

A meeting point between pristine
innocence and the...

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Categories: toward, caregiving, childhood, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: toward, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Island Spirit
Island Spirit

Palm trees are swaying island style
Within the gentle trade wind's flow,
As Egrets glide on salty air—
Then land where verdant grasses grow.
Breathe in sweet scents...

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Categories: toward, adventure, beauty, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: toward, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: toward, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dusk
Melting sorrows drift toward tomorrow
when sounds dance in hushed irrelevance.
Sacred seconds are held in creation's tawny yolk
as crystal waves of wind bid farewell to this...

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Categories: toward, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Homecoming
It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...

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Categories: toward, america, father, home, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Baby Steps
I took a walk with God today,
His pace far more casual than
mine. His voice a bit softer,
calmer. His visions, far more
loftier, but not views to...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: toward, change, christian, confidence, god,
Form: Free verse
A Concrete Snowman
THE BLACK
                       ...

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Categories: toward, children, fun, snow, winter,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Love's Chemical Derivatives
Can  love then,  be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...

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Categories: toward, love, science,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things