Best Well Known Poems
Below are the all-time best Well Known poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of well known poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Well-Known Stranger'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...
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Categories:
well known, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form:
Rhyme
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling WolfAmerican Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf
Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...
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Categories:
well known, art, conflict, death, history,
Form:
Verse
Wild LoveThe blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.
" A love so true as...
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Categories:
well known, garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form:
Narrative
Black Cockatoo
"Black Cockatoo"
I was white
as pure snow cotton
thread through the eye of God's needle
Black
he was,
not Egyptian, more ancient
he walked
in the Dreamtime
with...
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Categories:
well known, romance, sensual, silence,
Form:
Romanticism
Categories:
well known, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...
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Categories:
well known, family, house, life,
Form:
Personification
LOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILTLOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT
Blog was A young girl who was
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as...
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Categories:
well known, anger, love,
Form:
Rhyme
ABC World's Famous Scientists In HistoryA is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented the electricity ...
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Categories:
well known, cancer, inspirational, me,
Form:
Abecedarian
God Technologies, IncIt is well known
that the intelligence is artificial
and the weeping robot cannot weep.
It is less well known
that it will be quietly sold
as feeling and sorrowful...
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Categories:
well known, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Mackenzie TrailWhen doves on evenings, calm and still, call out a hollow tone,
They rouse a medley, old as time, so few have ever known.
The whispered lines...
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Categories:
well known, adventure, cowboy-western, historyold, horse,
Form:
Quatrain
Pandora's TemptationFor the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...
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Categories:
well known, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Heinrich Heine RevisitedI can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...
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Categories:
well known, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form:
Narrative
My Handicap BeachMy Handicap Beach
As I lay here and look out the window from our hotel at the absolutely amazing view..
It makes me wonder how something so...
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Categories:
well known, blessing, emotions, how i
Form:
Free verse
HEARTBEATS ON PAS DE DEUXHEARTBEATS ON PAS FE DEUX
Starstruck by your smile as I opened my eyes
Snow-white cheeks glows to peaches sweet
Running fingertip to heart shaped lips
As spring breeze...
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Categories:
well known, feelings, first love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Morning GloryHer face may show a rosy blush
Peering through a favorite bush.
Perhaps you'll greet with great delight
This newcomer dressed in purest white
Miss Morning Glory, sweet...
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Categories:
well known, nature
Form:
Personification
A Stubborn Man
He’s 85 and he says he isn’t going to die.
Stooped over very badly, maybe two feet shorter now
than he used to be in his prime
and...
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Categories:
well known, death,
Form:
Free verse
Meet My Mr Moore tercet
Mr. Moore taught us English lit
but more important than that,
he taught us how to use our wit.
He willed us to go way beneath
the...
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Categories:
well known, teacher, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poetry Masters**
T~ This is for all the great master poets of art.
H~ Having the skills, the words, and the smarts.
...
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Categories:
well known, appreciation, april, poets, tribute,
Form:
Acrostic
Sweet Talkers of the DevilSweet Talkers of the Devil
Reptiles in human suits are the true sweet talkers of the devil,
and are well known among the various societies in our...
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Categories:
well known, allegory, evil, extended metaphor,
Form:
Narrative
THE GRIST MILL HORRORThe grist mill stands by the side of the lake
A bustling flour mill of yesteryear
An eerie place where many people died
If you go inside you...
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Categories:
well known, death, evil, horror,
Form:
Sonnet
The Coupling of Our Soulsdon't let our coupling bodies
be the uncoupling of souls
don't let what's tried and true
then attempt to fan the coals
perfunctory caresses
meant to bring desired gain
when not...
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Categories:
well known, how i feel, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Baby BraveA boy lines up plastic soldiers
In straight rows across his floor.
He knocks them down with callow ease
In a naive game of war.
Far across the...
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Categories:
well known, fear, life, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Dog Dialogue
Finally you asked for dog’s point of view -
The dialogue of depth, long overdue.
Without a word I’m whistling in the dark,
Articulation’s muffled by the bark.
Seems...
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Categories:
well known, animal, dog, pets,
Form:
Personification
A Shadow EmergesI am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his...
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Categories:
well known, dark, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True LoveDeep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep...
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Categories:
well known, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form:
Elegy