Best Walls Poems
Below are the all-time best Walls poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of walls poems written by PoetrySoup members
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
walls, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
walls, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Glory of Her MagnificenceOceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.
Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...
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Categories:
walls, change, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
walls, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"
Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...
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Categories:
walls, death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Real Men Wear PinkI stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...
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Categories:
walls, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of the Poet*The Dead Poet*
Many blocks along the road,
Kicking down walls of heavy stones,
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...
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Categories:
walls, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form:
Ballad
With Open ArmsCome to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...
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Categories:
walls, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Letting Go"Letting Go!"
Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...
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Categories:
walls, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
walls, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Pink Lace**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon**
"PINK LADIES"
The phone rings,
The clock dings,
I scream, scream, and...
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Categories:
walls, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streetsto my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...
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Categories:
walls, destiny, dream, fate,
Form:
Free verse
MonsterMONSTER
Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed,
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...
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Categories:
walls, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
walls, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Shepherd Who Forgot His FlockIt's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see
sometimes they bleed.
Some say words heal,
but I resist to...
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Categories:
walls, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form:
Free verse