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Best Upstage Poems

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


Premium Member A Gifted Pig Named Polly
Pigs that swim the Caribbean aren't just silly rumors,
Polly is just such a pig, from the island of Exumas ...

Oh, Polly loves the water so,...

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Categories: upstage, animal, fantasy, flying, humorous,
Form: Light Verse



Party Vine
PARTY VINE

The Sweet Pea is a social climber,
behind your back, a wisenheimer.
In the night it wields its powers,
Sweet Peas strangle other flowers.

Sweet Peas think the...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upstage, celebration, color, flower, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fan of a Fan
Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she...

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Categories: upstage, celebrity, fairy, i love
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Meld of Muses
My mind is a house with a thousand rooms
That burst at the seams with recollections 
In vain I have tried with a thousand brooms
To sweep...

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Categories: upstage, memory, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Gift of Winter
The Gift Of Winter


When Winter brings old seasons to their ends
      and plans a rest for Spring and Summer trends,
we're...

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Categories: upstage, winter,
Form: Rhyme



When Poetry Steps Off the Page
When poetry steps off the page,
It has come of age,
And is ready for life as a sage.

When poetry steps off the page,
It can many voices...

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Categories: upstage, analogy, appreciation, beauty, celebrity,
Form: Personification
Premium Member My Thirteen-Toed Lover
When you stuck your paw out from that shelter cage,
Did you have any idea whose sleeve you clawed?
Did you see a heart you needed to...

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Categories: upstage, animals, loveheart, heart, love,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Sweet Dreams, Princess
Daddy read another fairy tale and nightly prayers were said.
He tenderly kissed his little princess and gently tucked her in bed.
Pausing to gaze upon her...

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Categories: upstage, child, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reason For the Season
When did Christ get pushed aside
for a fat man and reindeer on a midnight ride?

I'm sure if Jesus had his way
he'd change his birthday to...

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Categories: upstage, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Canto Xxix Hell Translation
So many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.

But Virgil told : “What for you...

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Categories: upstage, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
It's Two Days After Thursday
Enter the Everest that devastates,
he never ever rests and he demonstrates,
how the greatness activates traits
that forever feed hate,
into enemies with envious jealousy
and sad little nul...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upstage, hip hop, me, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Flagrante Delicto
[starboard port]

the ocean—an onyx plate predawn—
somnambulant ships preen with a swag of
warning lights

massive hulls: cargo ships, flotillas, tankers,
passenger liners loll; red lights buss
the somber slate...

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Categories: upstage, love,
Form: Free verse
Can I Kartel You
You think you're Godzilla 
but you're just a Gorilla,
that's what happens when you've got gonorrhea,
my skin colours vanilla
my skills are killa and real
you're run of...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upstage, hip hop, rap, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Christian Hypocrites
THERE ARE SO MANY PREACHERS TRYING TO BE TEACHERS BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE LEACHERS.

LYING,CHEATING AND CREEPING AROUND LIKE A SNAKE IN THE GRASS COVERING UP...

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Categories: upstage, life, religion, people, people,
Form: Personification
Lego Hair and Knicker Elastic
Mum..Why did you give me lego hair.?
To upstage my Alan Carr teeth
And stretch that grey nylon pinefore
Tight
To ridicule my chubby young knees
 
And why dear...

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Categories: upstage, childhood,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs