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Best Traversed Poems

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


Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: traversed, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: traversed, angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
Standstill
Strangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity...

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Categories: traversed, brother, death, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rain and Stardust
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Categories: traversed, fantasyrain, rain,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I walk in the shadow
I shore up my doubt, behind a loosely bound hope 
Which in turn is propped up without foundation
Cynical of a life, at the mercy of...

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Categories: traversed, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Time to Reflect
Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose,
Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes;
Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows,
Always...

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Categories: traversed, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Amid Drizzle
Written: May 3rd, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traversed, analogy, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflecting On Police Brutality
It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion  
through southern Spain, across...

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Categories: traversed, violence, prejudice,
Form: Prose
Call of the Wild
I envy those living as part of the wild
For I too, once heeded its call
A smoldering ember since I was a child
Urge, and belonging all...

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Categories: traversed, humanity, journey, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Mackenzie Trail
When doves on evenings, calm and still, call out a hollow tone,
They rouse a medley, old as time, so few have ever known.
The whispered lines...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traversed, adventure, cowboy-western, historyold, horse,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Beloved
Inside such dreams of never lasting days
We traversed such wanting thoughts in emotional astray

On that December night, to our cottage on the hill
Where on many...

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Categories: traversed, lost, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Nightingale Sings of Dawn's Glory
Cobwebs of thoughts dangle in forlorn corner
Spun by emotions that surrendered long ago
Still hanging out, anguished, in grip of throes
Engrossed in silence while gazing night...

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Categories: traversed, break up, hope, love
Form: Verse
Premium Member Being Your Eyes For Swell
Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the...

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Categories: traversed, appreciation, art, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tethered To a Moment
With just one glance her enchanting smile won
Cadence of his heart crooning: she was the one
And fairy-tale of sweethearts had thus begun
Stealing stealthily the missives...

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Categories: traversed, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet Pathetique
SONNET PATHETIQUE

So sad Peter Ilyich; such anguished strife!
What is the tragic loss for which you grieve
An unforgot dark chapter in your life
So you must wear...

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Categories: traversed, angst, beauty, music, sad,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things