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Best Wakes Poems

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


Premium Member The Sowing
Upon 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: wakes, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Unseen Rainbow
I've never ever seen her face, 
but in my mind, she's the color of love
Black
strong like dark coffee
She wakes you up early in the morning,
gives...

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Categories: wakes, allusion, beauty, love, rainbow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: wakes, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Categories: wakes, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Heroes

Heroes

When need arises they rise up in every town
No matter the toll it takes, they just carry on,
But not everyone will recognize who they are
For...

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Categories: wakes, hero,
Form: Verse



The Solo Pianist
Another Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist  with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a...

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Categories: wakes, absence, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fractured Soul
Shes sits in her worn out familiar chair
As the sun wakes for the day
Her being weary before the day begins
From wishing her life away

Nothing matters...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wakes, grief, loss, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: wakes, remember,
Form: Free verse
Now I Lay Me
Now I lay me down to sleep
In my home that's really sweet
Had three large meals and a snack
There wasn't a hint of any lack
Comfortable shoes...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wakes, 7th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Lyric
Finding Happiness In Everyday Pleasures
Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...

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Categories: wakes, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Miracle Divine
In the midst of great turmoil and strife, 
There is a force manifestly to be heard…seen….touched
A voice—ever so soft… yet loud enough to break mountains...

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Categories: wakes, analogy, blessing, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Life Is
The Life Is …

The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...

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Categories: wakes, allusion, angst, life, old,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...

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Categories: wakes, child, children, family, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Dolls
she is everything you have seen in the movies
crayola hair
velvet dress
sugar in her veins
tears glued to her face
she fingerpaints the kitchen walls like a little...

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Categories: wakes, addiction, beautiful, emotions, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member on tranquil lake -
glass-like smooth of even's yawn
      just I, myself, with one cob swan
        ...

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Categories: wakes, earth, introspection, nature, soulmate,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Reflection on the Important Things