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Best Wrapped It Up Poems

Below are the all-time best Wrapped It Up poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wrapped it up poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: wrapped it up, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: wrapped it up, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: wrapped it up, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -
The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

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Categories: wrapped it up, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima
On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streets
to my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...

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Categories: wrapped it up, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Belle of the Ball
My dress is made of fine peach coloured lace
Hair is in ringlets, which frames my pretty face
The lights in the room cast a romantic glow
My...

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Categories: wrapped it up, dance, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...

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Categories: wrapped it up, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Longings of An Old Man
I long to—
Walk one more time
To where the land ends, and the ocean begins
To listen expectantly for the sounds of infant waves
Grasping layers of golden...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wrapped it up, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Painter
The Old Painter

sublime my paintings, memory be
lost in time, I now must see

where once the gale winds trembled chill
wrapped in blankets, remember still

a touch, a...

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Categories: wrapped it up, time,
Form: Couplet
Winter's Afterglow
stars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.

she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wrapped it up, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angels
Angelic wings inhabit the mind
To comfort your soul from a sacred sky
Sent to protect and give worth to the blind
And guide the sightless that have...

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Categories: wrapped it up, angel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where Your Eyes Shine I Want To Lie Down
where crystals gleam 
i want to lie

where the scented lily opens
reveals its stamen
tender as babies breath

as unavoidable as our sun's and moon's provocative union 
as...

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Categories: wrapped it up, love,
Form: Free verse
On Mountain Nine
Running beauty rippled in crystal white
No whisper in the air, just a wondrous sight
My eyes ascend in awe to a far light
Small and empty observing...

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Categories: wrapped it up, beauty, creation, feelings, heaven,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Create a Story With Me
Curl around me, take a chance 
escape in this sweet romance, 
create a story with me . . . 



I want to live in your...

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Categories: wrapped it up, love, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wrapped it up, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem

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