Best Wake Poems
Below are the all-time best Wake poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wake poems written by PoetrySoup members
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:
wake, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
wake, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In Strangler's WoodIn forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
silent shadows waver...
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Categories:
wake, death,
Form:
Rhyme
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote...
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Categories:
wake, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Interview with the Wind“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius
“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr.
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...
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Categories:
wake, wind,
Form:
Personification
I Dance
Voice: Jason Williams
***
I danced!
Whirling air around me, particles of sundust
in tornadoes and hurricanes following me in awe
I danced.
Each night I wake and feel...
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Categories:
wake, abuse, dance, music, pain,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Editing of MeMy words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction
I wanted to resist...
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Categories:
wake, conflict, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
I DiedAs blaze of August fades into the Fall
horizons new have burned and turned to ash
and textures of the change of seasons clash,
a plague of frost...
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Categories:
wake, age, death, destiny, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear LuciferI cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...
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Categories:
wake, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
wake, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
A Need To Be Somewhere ElseI’m the one who needs to be somewhere else,
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...
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Categories:
wake, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin LaneIn Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane
Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...
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Categories:
wake, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Worst Love Poem Ever WrittenI suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...
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Categories:
wake, cancer, cry, death of
Form:
Elegy
And Sweet Is Her DemiseIn primrose twilight, summer is still near.
She whispers in my ear; I hear her in
the one lone owl that hoots to only me.
I wake to...
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Categories:
wake, autumn, death, summer,
Form:
Blank verse
sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...
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Categories:
wake, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form:
Free verse