Best Writing Poems
Below are the all-time best Writing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of writing poems written by PoetrySoup members
Writing Unwraps My Soul - POTD
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...
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Categories:
life, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Writing a Love SonnetIf only I could write you a sonnet,
Iambic pentameter and what not,
Let my muse mull profoundly upon it.
I must write it quickly lest I forgot.
It...
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Categories:
writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Of Ink Partial Paper
-A poet in heat-
Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every...
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Categories:
writing, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet's GiftA Poet's Gift
A poet writes to share a secret depth
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their...
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Categories:
art, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
In NovemberIn November I write of winter
for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...
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Categories:
november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Reverse Rant"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!
What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not...
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Categories:
humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
joined by words
~ for my fellow poets ~
as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt
fine fancies or fears
take...
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Categories:
writing, appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
POETRY FOR POETS: i own this- editionWell hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...
POETRY FOR POETS
(I own this- edition)
Poems
more organic...
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Categories:
writing, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Painting with WordsPainting with Words
If I were an artist instead of a poet
I’d paint what I knew as others would know it.
I’d be a Renoir and never...
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Categories:
poetry, writing,
Form:
Couplet
CovetousIs it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence
To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse
In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...
...
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Categories:
jealousy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Passions I own
Sensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...
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Categories:
muse, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
I LONG TO WRITE A POEM - JUST RIGHTI long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce...
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Categories:
bullying, poems, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
You KnowYes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...
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Categories:
writing, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form:
Ode
LIBERTY OF EXPRESSION is HEREWhy I am here in Poetrysoup?
I like a seed carelessly thrown
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow
despite big rough blocks..
words......
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Categories:
writing, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form:
Free verse
RETREAT TO HEED OUR HONEST DEEDSRETREAT TO HEED OUR HONEST DEEDS
Two old oak trees weathered by winds and rain
with fallen leaves, branches and toughened bark
to shield a core of grandeur,...
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Categories:
writing, art, friendship, meaningful, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Dressing UpI try on words
Like hats and shoes
To see which look
Best fits my muse.
7/30/20
Poem of the Day
August 1st, 2020...
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Categories:
analogy, inspiration, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Ink of the Heart
A poet needs dip his pen
in the ink of his heart
Lest his verse be reduced
to sterile, soulless art...
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Categories:
heart, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Pretty PoetWhere Have All The Pretty Poets Gone?
A real poet are you, charismatic over everything you serve
Showcasing, a rainbow that folds the perfect world wide...
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Categories:
writing, angel, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Plethora of Poetry~STRIP TEASE~ Featuring:) SKAT
Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...
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Categories:
writing, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form:
Alliteration
We Push The PenWe push the pen to make you feel
the gentle tapping of the falling rain,
the stinging burn of the summer sun
the heavy heart of despair and...
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Categories:
writing, poems, poetry, poets, senses,
Form:
Quatrain
The Poems I Never WroteThese are the roads I didn't take
A pause too soon, a turn too late
Lost in the love I never spoke
The poems I never wrote
Gone are...
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Categories:
lost, muse, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
I Write Upon my Fancy
“If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”...
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Categories:
writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Across the WideThere are cities of sonnets to map
Quests of pantoums and villanelles
To harness, and ride
Across the wide
Tangled grassland of gratuity
Unwritten, unruled
Anarchy of expression
Empty lines can...
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Categories:
appreciation, poems, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTen Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...
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Categories:
writing, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I
Its birth a shake of...
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Categories:
writing, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form:
Narrative