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Best Wholly Poems

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


Tears To Weep
When I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.

He...

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Categories: wholly, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love Gift
I saw Love climb upon the wind
Heard the laughter in the breeze
Tasted lilacs, jasmine, and honeysuckle
With a turn and twist Love caressed my skin
The scent...

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Categories: wholly, dream, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: wholly, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Artist
Stillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed  on a fine palette
and a...

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Categories: wholly, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Retired Souls In Rhyme Confide
I fear as I drip my word
Teardrops would be overheard
No verse shall set its rhythm or whine
I dread my anguish is seen as I rhyme
Whatever...

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Categories: wholly, deep, faith, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: wholly, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member What Is Love
How does one answer, what is love;
it's part hope, part apparition.
But what it truly is; sort of
simply defies definition.

Have you ever felt so alive
that it...

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Categories: wholly, beautiful, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Butterfly Dance
Dance for me beautiful butterfly 
Flutter me wise
Carry me upward to blue skies
Reveal rainbow effervescence to my eyes

My perfect moment encased in time
Within my heart...

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Categories: wholly, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Asperger's Child
Some say you're not quite whole,
But I know better, Angel Child.
You live in a place all your own,
Free, unhinged, sometimes wild.

In precious moments you let...

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Categories: wholly, granddaughter, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Lonely World
How populated this lonely world often feels
with so much warm flesh living cold and stony.
Some days, we ache for someone to hold us,
smile into our...

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Categories: wholly, friendship, hurt, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Ocean Eyes
Walking all night
On the glittering wet sand of a sea shore.. 
In the shadows of twinkling stars..
Through a silver airial fabric
of a tiny waning Moonlight...

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Categories: wholly, ocean, peace, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
You and I and I and You
You, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy...

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Categories: wholly, anger, beautiful, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Omnipotent: He Knows All
OMNIPOTENT: HE KNOWS ALL


I know today, at this time
You... my son(man), may not wholly know me. 
but, may I ask you...

Have you   taken...

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Categories: wholly, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Comparison Between Byron and Me On Francesca
I was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's...

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Categories: wholly, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Terza Rima
Justice In the Quest For Love
I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle...

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Categories: wholly, beauty, birth, change, inspiration,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things