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Best Winning Poems

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


Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: winning, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winning, horror,
Form: Rhyme
A Soup Bowl Full of Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all thru the Soup bowl,
Not a poet was writing, not even the musing mole.
All their pens were hung by...

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Categories: winning, christmas, family, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gently Now, Gently
Thinking of you in crimson dawn rising
Voice of fervid night keeps calling me
Naming the lady of my fabulous dreams
Meet me I say, gleaming amber glory
Start...

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Categories: winning, love, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: winning, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Whiners
I write poems because it's fun
And I'm not the only one
It's an outlet for verbal expression
A hobby and not an obsession

I'm an amateur, not a...

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Categories: winning, conflict, feelings, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: winning, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: winning, weather,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Huffle-Wink's Nearby
You've no doubt heard of fire-breathing dragons,
and their obsession with hoarding treasure.
But have you ever heard of Huffle-Winks,
magical creatures that promote pleasure.

Invisible, atop fast dragonflies,
they...

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Categories: winning, 8th grade, cute, fairy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member And So It Begins
And so it begins
The game of life
The dominos of love
Falling where they may
The timer activated
Fresh out of a box
Learning the rules 
As we go along
No...

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Categories: winning, destiny, emotions, fun, games,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winning, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Then We'll Be Dead
Whispers and intrigue 
and things that shan’t be said,
not uttered or stuttered--
minds shuttered instead.

You cannot, you shall not,
believe your own eyes.
You must put your trust...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winning, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contest Surprise
I wrote a poem for a contest
    And it got some great comments
 I thought it was one of my best
 ...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winning, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love For a Movie Screen
It was a romance only seen in forgotten dreams.
An Oscar winning script written for movie screens.
Her ethereal sight was the ultimate pleasure.
Her eyes an enigma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: winning, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Genie In a Gin Bottle
Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace...

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Categories: winning, love, sad,
Form: Free verse

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