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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


Premium Member 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



Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

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
Premium Member In Strangler's Wood
In 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 Willows
This 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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member I Dance
Voice: Jason Williams

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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
Premium Member The Editing of Me
My 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
Premium Member I Died
As 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 Lucifer
I 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
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: wake, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
A Need To Be Somewhere Else
I’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
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In 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
Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I 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
Premium Member And Sweet Is Her Demise
In 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Shattered Sighs