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Best Universal Poems

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


Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: universal, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: universal, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You'Re the Poem
If only this poetry could define,
how your presence takes me towards cloud nine.
Your touch brings sensations that feel divine,
yet, my tongue is quiet, fighting this...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: universal, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Real Me
I was put on the road of life without my consent. 
I was not conscious of who I was or of what I had to...

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Categories: universal, character, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last drop of ink
Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.
But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - 
        ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: universal, romance,
Form: Ode



Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: universal, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: universal, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shape of Water
So much to know, so little time to learn
To think of all the unsolved mysteries
Still trying to understand all that we know
How sad, most go...

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Categories: universal, environment, life, perspective, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: universal, cute, immigration, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: universal, love, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Cosmic Dreams
Be it evidence consequence or coincidence
Every night as I succumb to somnolence

Heavenly smoke rings of frankincense
Rise upwards with sweet opulence

Dulcet dreams inevitably commence
Without fanfare hype...

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Categories: universal, dream, fantasy, night, sleep,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - A collaboration with  Susan Ashley
 
Please, may I walk into your paradise with you
with...

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Categories: universal, art, beautiful, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode to my Beloved
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: universal, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Pawn to Silence
I was cursed with 
ink intoxicating 
blank canvases 
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales 
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken 
     ...

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Categories: universal, england, love,
Form: Free verse
Spoonful of Rice
(This is a universal story of mother’s sacrifice for their children, be it material, emotional, or intellectual.)


It was during the Korean War
Father was taken away...

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Categories: universal, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs