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Best Worthwhile Poems

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


Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I

When daylight shuts her weary eye;

Down the streets where beggars sleep

And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.

On streets that...

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Categories: worthwhile, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Inspired by life’s goals, winners are...

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Categories: worthwhile, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happiness
Happiness calms like a mother's lullaby.
Happiness is fragile like a butterfly.

Happiness is the first daffodil in spring.
Happiness is listening to a nightingale sing.

Happiness is seeing...

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Categories: worthwhile, emotions,
Form: List
Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

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Categories: worthwhile, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Drunk Drivers Guilt
I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our...

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Categories: worthwhile, car, death, drink, family,
Form: Narrative



Have You Ever
Have You Ever

Stood in a field of ripened gold grain
Lifted your face to be kissed by the rain
Felt in your heart the anguish of pain?
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Held...

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Categories: worthwhile, life, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sonnet For Compassion
What words did you use to make someone smile?
Did you reach out to change a stranger’s day?
The smallest gesture makes it all worthwhile,
an act of...

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Categories: worthwhile, community, humanity, judgement,
Form: Sonnet
You'Re Worthy of Love
You're worthy of love

I see the scars, you're hiding deep within
they're not visible, upon your skin
you don't even know, how you could begin
to feel worthy...

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Categories: worthwhile, abuse, addiction, child abuse,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member As Time Goes By
Born in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...

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Categories: worthwhile, life,
Form: Verse
The Peace of Wild Things
Alone and left to contemplate, 
had I a pair of wings,
I’d fly away and search the world 
for the peace of wild things.

To live among...

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Categories: worthwhile, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member An Angels Tear
An angel shed a tear from both her soul and her heart
As she viewed the Earth’s beauty that its people called art
Their art came from...

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Categories: worthwhile, blessing, giving, happiness, heart,
Form: Rhyme
You'Ve Got Mail'
I got a letter the other day;
The Postman delivered it in the usual way.
No return address I could see;
Who could possibly be writing to me?

I...

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Categories: worthwhile, faithme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Queen Eileen Remembers
On day full of doom and gloom
With no strength to leave my room
With no hope to look towards light
With darkness closing in at night
I remember…..

When...

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Categories: worthwhile, friendship, remember, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: worthwhile, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Beguiling Spring
Beguiling spring, how bold your arrogance
You shameless season painted in conceit
Parading up and down each city street
O'er hill, through dale, you flaunt your elegance

Each tree,...

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Categories: worthwhile, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs