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Poetry about Poets. Read and share great examples of all types of poems on being a poet or about poets. This list of poets poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of poets poetry. It is not unusual for a poet to write about other poets and these are great examples of poems for and about poets. 
Facades Dying Star
Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome, bursts on the edges of the atmosphere. Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones, fore a chance never truly appears. A velleity is made at her shooting tomb, deities will not honor this...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, art, bird, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poetry Soup Connections
I have truly become fond of many poets here on Poetry Soup And to be quite honest that has completely surprised me l never believed a human connection could be made via a screen Yet…. l have...Read the rest...
Categories: friendship, poetess, poets, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Tea With A Handshake
Crossroads in the desert sands swirls, an orb whirls around as clouds gather, lightning bolt violet violently twirls, roads crack with shotgun thunder. Visage a pearl cascades as she approaches me, cut through the dirt she speaks a litany reverie, “You...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, art, conflict, crazy, dark,
Form: Free verse
Late Daughter
Poem that is written with each gentle kiss Music I play twitching the corners of my lips Art brush paint four magnum opus till death Final one I will whisper with my dying breath...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, beautiful, child, death, depression,
Form: Epitaph
Death Knelt
In the cartographies merger with the soul, where topographies bring thought converge, a hidden rose blooms, its petals unfolding, like a cipher's dark emerge, thorns burst contradiction piercing the hymen with certitude, as the benthic depths, a chthonic whisper, exhale the secrets unsaid...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, art, crazy, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse



Saint Catherine Was Excalibur
I always said tether to the void Not any idealistic reason or choice Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid Because how can one speak with an inside voice Where no one can hear you outside yourself Dawn of...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic
No One Is Looking
Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay Bubble floats to pop Silence yet I sway Miasma tang vitae oh Nueva So they swing on a rope seputchra Momma Mia...Read the rest...
Categories: poets, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bustling Brainwaves
Bustling brainwaves bring it to life better when both eyes are blanketed; Hyperactive insomnia’s strife; Gears inside feel like a hamster’s wheel, it keeps going and going won’t stop; Blinking and scanning I have to deal; Bedrest blatantly bombed...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Gala For Gershon
Gershon's fab writing reaches like a preacher, he's a retired teacher, and poet extraordinaire, with phenomenal flair. His humor is witty, he hails from Chicago city. He deserves more views, he pens poignantly too. A poetry prince, and I've been hooked ever since. He ranges from...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, dedication, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
ANON
ANON Come on now, you know who you are A good online poet with verses a-plenty Wowing everyone, even the cognoscenti With rhyme, metaphor and fine imagery Many admirers, as we think you’re a star It is clear, as a poet,...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea Glass
In the ocean of lyrical words and mermaid metaphors, poetic pirates steal the gold that glistens; floating in eloquence, flowing with diamond tears, but within inked skulls and bones names of those that thieve in paper...Read the rest...
Categories: life, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jim Yerman
Though he is quiet and meek, The spotlight he shall not seek. His light glows softly, inviting, So many hearts he is igniting. With poetry that lives on and on, To his poems my heart is drawn. His work will never...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Ode
A Poet's Eyes
Seeing — Unseeing the words drift away far into the current of what’s left to say Passing my cortex and into the void where blind recognition awaits to destroy Familiar or foreign once stopped in their tracks new meaning escapes with no looking back The Poet’s eyes...Read the rest...
Categories: poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Set It Off
If only I could? I already can; Whatever’s wanted I chase guns blazing; Pop it. Set it off. I’m determined to be extreme in every way; Laser focused. Leave my stain on the page for others to find and breathe in....Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, poets, strength,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Of Wicked Artifice Rimas Dissolutas
A poet’s pen of wicked artifice, it is so heavy and so eclectic; The writer’s creativity’s heavy, tricksy to be inflamed so luminous; Too many dollar bills to pay a price I carry this burden like a...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, poets, writing,
Form: Other

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