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


Premium Member We Are Not Merely Poets
Some of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self, 
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...

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Categories: truths, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: truths, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: truths, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Warriors
This one is for the broken,
hiding behind invisible bruising.
For the forgotten and the ones 
who have forgotten us,
like the misunderstood misfits.
Who howl at the moon,
look...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truths, assonance, dedication, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: truths, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore to be held to.
Her grace, soft as the silence of...

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Categories: truths, appreciation, beauty, loss, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: truths, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Interpretation of If By Rudyard Kipling
MY INTERPRETATION OF IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING -  

If you can keep calm when all around you,
Are frustrated, and angry with you,
Always believe in...

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Categories: truths, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: truths, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...

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Categories: truths, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Life
The heartaches of living are many
The comforts of living are few;
The truths we are told are not many
And the lies we were told have come...

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Categories: truths, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: truths, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Was Her Best Lover- Not For Contest
Poetry was her best lover
like no other
he loved her
without restraint
She could be herself
and explore
discovering
secret pleasures and fantasies

Naked above the covers
he let her lie exposed
as he...

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Categories: truths, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stanzas By the Sea
I

when the world had no headsets
the sunbathing crowd
fell asleep to the sounds of
transistors played loud
while the deckchairs and windbreaks
kites, beach balls and more
formed the stripes,...

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Categories: truths, beach, england, holiday, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: truths, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs