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Best Yes Poems

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

Where the Sycamore Grew

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Categories: yes, autumn, family, house, life,
Form: Narrative

When I Stop and Pray

When the storm clouds boil around me, 
And the lightning splits the sky--. 
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...

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Categories: yes, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Lyric

Wind From the Sea

Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: yes, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Hands

With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: yes, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse

When Madness Rides On Moonlight

Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: yes, god, life,
Form: Sestina

Real Men Wear Pink

I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: yes, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Thinking Out Loud

~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: yes, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

I Want Your Seeds

**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: yes, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse

Love One Another

“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
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Categories: yes, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Love In the Silence of the Soul

As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: yes, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative

Goodbye

(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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Categories: yes, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

no poet am I -

a poet, you say? pardon no, not am I
there's only ONE poet - He writes on the
       sky
of sunsets...

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Categories: yes, blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Couplet

My Winter's Wishes

In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: yes, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet

Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: yes, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

All I Am

Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: yes, longing,
Form: Free verse