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Best Vessel Poems

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


Premium Member Quarantine of the Soul
-Quarantine of the Soul-


Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost 
Dark
You open...

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Categories: vessel, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sailing the Seas In a Pecan Tree
The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...

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Categories: vessel, adventure, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If
If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you...

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Categories: vessel, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: vessel, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: vessel, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Emily Dickinson
Crowned poet,
posthumous Queen 
of the private world, 
you explored
every subtlety of the soul
and mapped the wonder
of existence 
to its last drawn breath.

What price did you...

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Categories: vessel, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)


There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...

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Categories: vessel, angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Day My Eternal Friend
Day, my lifelong friend
Thousands of times have we said good morning to each other and
As many times have, we said goodnight,
You have wakened me up...

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Categories: vessel, day, death, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
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: vessel, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Pass the Light House
~ CALYPSO ~

Odyssey of the open ocean 
Eclipsing the performance of Heaven's delight 
A beautiful name whispered along the night 
Calypso enhanced with enchanted lullabies...

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Categories: vessel, adventure, beauty, desire, journey,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: vessel, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member on such divine evenings -
aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt,...

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Categories: vessel, august, eve, joy, metaphor,
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: vessel, love, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: vessel, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken Heart, For Sale
I have always been alone
I have always been the lonely one
In the corner, quiet and silent
Inside of dreams to come

So with determination
I build and build...

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Categories: vessel, beauty, fantasy, introspection, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs