Best Verse Poems
Below are the all-time best Verse poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of verse poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
verse, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
verse, people,
Form:
Free verse
Like a GirlI play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl,
And when I run -- I run like a...
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Categories:
verse, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Twilight AuroraLike an interrupted dream
shadows of the one
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.
No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...
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Categories:
verse, absence, angst, love,
Form:
Free verse
The SowingUpon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.
At years...
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Categories:
verse, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
verse, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
verse, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Not Merely PoetsSome 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:
verse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
PetalPink and perfect mystery
to which I ply my finger,
she ripens so exquisitely
the longer that I linger
and fluff the modest blossom
with my gentle loving...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Verse
BrokenOn a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare
In a nightmare with no windows
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody
Flowers, above
My eyes...
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Categories:
verse, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Melancholic TreeIn the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.
Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below,
an isolated tree - naked and...
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Categories:
verse, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Conversation With My SoulDwell not, O soul, on yesterday,
on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago,
today may be...
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Categories:
giving, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Alice Sweet Alice~Alice Sweet Alice~
*Like Sisters*
Everyday -- Holding Hands
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
...
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Categories:
verse, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
verse, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
A Smile AppearedSilently, I sat by,
To listen to the sounds of the world,
Of all the voices that touched me most,
Were those caught in the angelic wind,
For all...
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Categories:
verse, wind,
Form:
Free verse