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Best Wonted Poems

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


A Rose In the Heather.
So still and beautiful lays the rose in the heather,
Lifeless and dying, given to bring you happiness,
So fragile is this rose laying in heather,
Slowly withering...

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Categories: wonted, loss, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Green-The Color of Life
Though I'm ashamed to say it now, I never took conservation seriously,
Just living life as if nothing else mattered, full of wonted complacency.

I would hear...

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Categories: wonted, fantasy, green, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Self-Pity Is Self-Destruction
I just realized here I am looking down on myself. Literally living off my own self-pity. 
Drowning myself with my memories of all the people...

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Categories: wonted, schoolpeople, life, me, people,
Form:



Premium Member Blame
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."  _ John Burroughs


In the Garden of...

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Categories: wonted, betrayal, break up, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contemporary Ode To a Mother Crying Out To Her Children--2015
Contemporary Ode To A Mother Crying Out
         To Her Children…2015

Sprawled out on life’s stage,
her world turns and...

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Categories: wonted, africa, allegory, analogy, black
Form: Ode
The Dryad's Scream - 22 Mar 2016
I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream
As axe bit into woody flesh
The sap oozed out as scented cream
My veins stood out in rictal mesh

My wits all...

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Categories: wonted, dream, gothic, horror, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



The Blue
Dubieties engulf all around
 As the brume in the dawn
  Behold plants seeking strength
In this warm cuddling cloud  
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Songs soon sing from the...

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Categories: wonted, april, beauty, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Distant
"Distant" 

When winter came
it came fast 
cold as a witch's t*t

unwelcome and 
unwanted, 
we hesitate 

to move 
any further within 
the forest's interior

alarmed at how...

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Categories: wonted, muse, symbolism, winter,
Form: Free verse
Go Forth
Go forth, you man of a hellish breed.
Go forth, you man of yellow hair and skin of orange hue.
Go forth, with your wickedness a brew.

Go...

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Categories: wonted, political,
Form: Political Verse
Honourables
At eighty he is still a coolie
toiling in paddy lea;
reaping pods and
heaping the seeds.

His sagged muscles working
in wonted harmony
But his brain tired of thought;
of his...

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Categories: wonted, angst, family, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To My Friend - V
To my dearest dear…
Am going through a very bad phase
Loads of works and above all business targets,
Once you came to my thought 
And out of...

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Categories: wonted, caregiving, dedication, faith, friendship,
Form: Classicism
Winds of Change
Like a reclusive boat, I remained there,
discerning the prevailing winds of change,
which many a time, made me embrace fear,
by surpassing the stipulated range.

When winds of...

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Categories: wonted, nature, sea, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Hypnos
The story of the world is an absorbing dream. 
Though longer than our lives, it sometimes feels as brief
As our own rapid days, whose swiftly...

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Categories: wonted, philosophy, psychological, sleep, time,
Form: Rhyme
Same Old Bricks
A barren paradise 
Paper parachutes
Bleed, I before we
Except after deaths
String of light suctions 
Screams captioned 
Vocalizing muffles
Fleas flee
Parasites sight 
Leaches beseech 
Conventions plateau
Wonted into winter...

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Categories: wonted, angst, art,
Form: Blank verse
A Flying Bird
A flying bird I am for heavenly flight;
No enthralling branch can hold me tight.
Free I am from all the passing years;
not submitting to the baseless...

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Categories: wonted, bird, flying, light, paradise,
Form: Couplet