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Best Voted Poems

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


Premium Member Solemn Knights of Light
Do not
despair my friend,
there is still hope for a better world,
for us to make:
kinder,
nobler,
juster

for

I discern,
far on the horizon of time,
the dawning of a new era,
an...

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Categories: voted, love, peace, world,
Form: Free verse



Main Street Laureate
(On the state of American Poetry-  A Non-Poem Poem )




I'm Poet Laureate Of Main Street.
They voted.  I won.

' came down to me and...

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Categories: voted, humor, irony, poetry, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Open Our Eyes God
They kick God out of classrooms
And evil walks right in
Innocents are led to slaughter
Before their lives can even begin
Our jaws drop from the shock
We are...

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Categories: voted, caregiving, christian, god, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Iii
Oakland County MI                   Democrats   ...

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Categories: voted, political,
Form: Narrative
One Man One Cap and a Baseball Bat
He was known as Joltin John
With his baseball bat and his cap upon

He played the game with vigour and speed
Many a supporter said he was...

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Categories: voted, baseball,
Form: Couplet



Who Let the Dogs Out
He went the way of a sickly pigeon,
and dropped his nasty load on religion.
The evil ones hailed him,
power they availed him,
which increased his vanity a...

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Categories: voted, growing up, religion, god,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd

Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...

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Categories: voted, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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Categories: voted, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
It Don'T Matter
Come close, come closer ... 
let me bend your ear, my estranged countrymen
It don’t matter to me
if you’re a Democrat or a Republican
Your political persuasion
is...

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Categories: voted, perspective, philosophy, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Victim of Society
Sometimes I feel like I'm not supposed to be here
But I put on a brave face because they hope to see fear
Labels on my head...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voted, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tolerance
“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voted, america, anti bullying,
Form: Quatrain
America
Thought you folks might like to read this.  Someone sent it in an email to me.


The following is a poem written by Judge Roy...

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Categories: voted, sad, god, evil, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Likes To Knit Her Noodles
Her chopsticks are at the ready.
Her hands are good and steady.
She likes to knit her noodles!
The task has just begun...

She starts off with a mango...

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Categories: voted, food, funny, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Brainwashing
Brainwashing

Brainwashing is a flowing,
 right there on your TV,
Oh they sell life insurance to 20 year old’s,  
or guys like you an me,
Brainwashing sure...

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Categories: voted, adventure,
Form: Ballad
A Conversation To Hear
"Franklin, why do you want such a fat, ugly bird?
Are you getting senile, or just being absurd?"

"Clearly, Mr. Adams, you are not being a friend.
My...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voted, bird, history, humor, pride,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things