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Top 200 Poems

The following is a list by criterea of what our members consider the best poetry on the site. The ranking is based upon the overall score and number of votes cast per poem. Trolling, or voting low to knock people off the list, is tracked and is cause for member termination.

Most Creative:
  1. Gems Of Armageddon by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  2. A Tenet In Periphery by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  3. essential journey by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  4. Lost And Found by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  5. cover me - Explicit
     by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  6. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  7. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  8. MOMENT 12 by Graeme Fielden
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  9. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  10. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  11. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  12. Night Siren by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  13. I've Loved You! by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  14. Rendezvous Point by Arthur D Freeman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  15. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  16. bleeding medium point, black by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  17. Without Sound, God is Empty by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  18. Ye Gods and Little Fishhooks by Kristine Briese
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  19. Cello by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  20. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  21. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  22. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  23. last notes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  24. Fete by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  25. Imagine Me in Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  26. Postcards to Edinburgh by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  27. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  28. Additionally, This Poem by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  29. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  30. Feast Or Famine by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  31. Hanging Rope by Charles E Minshall
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  32. I Simply by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  33. Set Apart by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  34. views of valleys by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  35. rituals of steam and water by Garth Hill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  36. Over The Rubicon by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  37. To the Symphony of Forever by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  38. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  39. silent spring by Peter Humphreys
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  40. Sententious (Love) by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  41. Another You And Me by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  42. In My Own Defence I Blame My Hotel by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  43. Chalk Marks on a Dead Soul by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  44. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  45. Growing Roots by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  46. Cocoon at 4:18 by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  47. 71st and 8th drunk girl thinks me her man from the back by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  48. Eternal by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  49. From Cloud Nine... to you by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  50. Jagged Dreams by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
 Best Form:
  1. not watching the breast-feeding woman in the cafe at seven a.m. by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 31 Votes)
  2. Gems Of Armageddon by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  3. shannots by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  4. A King's Ransom by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  5. How to write poetry by Bridger Madison
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  6. essential journey by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  7. dear poet by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  8. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  9. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  10. Still Living Without You! by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  11. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  12. Multiple Choice by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  13. A Contempora - Explicit
     by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  14. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  15. Waiting by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  16. divide and rue by Laura Doom
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  17. Night Siren by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  18. I've Loved You! by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  19. But Not Me! by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  20. You remind me of me by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  21. "We were boys, really." by W. Mahlon Purdin
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  22. bleeding medium point, black by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  23. last notes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  24. So The Soothe Unfurled by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  25. Cello by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  26. Fete by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  27. His Rime by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  28. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  29. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  30. Ye Gods and Little Fishhooks by Kristine Briese
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  31. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  32. Imagine Me in Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  33. A Caprice Of Uncommon Lightness by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  34. I am just a platform. by Ashok Sharda
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  35. Killing Time As A Cartographer by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  36. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  37. Back When I Was Stupid by Mike Loftis
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  38. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  39. Additionally, This Poem by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  40. Confessions of a Black Widow by Meredith C Hartwell
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  41. My Hunger by Laurie Blum
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  42. Plain Yellow Pumpkin by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  43. Feast Or Famine by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  44. Ripples by Barbara Dooley
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  45. Sententious (Love) by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  46. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  47. Doing is Not My Grain by Ashok Sharda
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  48. Set Apart by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  49. views of valleys by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  50. And We Sing The Guise Of Common Good by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
 

Most Vivid Imagery:

  1. specter by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 23 Votes)
  2. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  3. a firmament by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  4. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  5. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  6. Medicinal Purpose by Mike Loftis
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  7. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  8. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  9. Rendezvous Point by Arthur D Freeman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  10. Night Siren by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  11. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  12. Loneliness, my Arizona by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  13. Ye Gods and Little Fishhooks by Kristine Briese
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  14. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  15. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  16. From the Mouths of Babes by Michael Smith
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  17. Cello by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  18. Full House by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  19. A Caprice Of Uncommon Lightness by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  20. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  21. last notes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  22. trees are alive to me by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  23. Confessions of a Black Widow by Meredith C Hartwell
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  24. Over The Rubicon by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  25. unraveling by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  26. Set Apart by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  27. To the Symphony of Forever by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  28. My Hunger by Laurie Blum
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  29. In My Own Defence I Blame My Hotel by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  30. Doing is Not My Grain by Ashok Sharda
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  31. Blossoming by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  32. silent spring by Peter Humphreys
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  33. seaskyrain by Maria Massarella
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  34. Plain Yellow Pumpkin by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  35. A Christmas that almost never was by Dave Fitzgerald
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  36. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  37. Another You And Me by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  38. rituals of steam and water by Garth Hill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  39. If Lakes Were Eyes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  40. Amazing Grace by Karl Waldbauer
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  41. New Blood by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  42. Erasure by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  43. Aurora Marialis by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  44. a language of coins by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  45. Killing Time by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  46. all of the rain at once. by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  47. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  48. Eve by Indigo Tempesta
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  49. They've Censored Q! They've Censored Q! by Alex Smyth
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  50. For What It's Worth by Ken Harnisch
    (Brilliant, 11 Votes)
  

Best Overall:

  1. specter by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 23 Votes)
  2. shannots by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  3. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  4. A Tenet In Periphery by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  5. I was dead and buried for ages. by Ashok Sharda
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  6. essential journey by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  7. A King's Ransom by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  8. dear poet by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  9. Please continue with yourself... by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  10. How to write poetry by Bridger Madison
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  11. Going Sleeveless by Rhiannon Jones
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  12. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  13. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  14. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  15. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  16. Glaciers by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  17. Waiting by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  18. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  19. I've Loved You! by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  20. On Borrowed Time by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  21. Peculiar Fire by Ken Harnisch
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  22. divide and rue by Laura Doom
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  23. Night Siren by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  24. Rendezvous Point by Arthur D Freeman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  25. Loneliness, my Arizona by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  26. Postcards to Edinburgh by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  27. Full House by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  28. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  29. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  30. Cello by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  31. - Folding Teeshirts - by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  32. I am just a platform. by Ashok Sharda
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  33. Imagine Me in Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  34. Follow Me into the Dissonance by Vince Blake
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  35. bleeding medium point, black by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  36. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  37. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  38. "We were boys, really." by W. Mahlon Purdin
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  39. Fete by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  40. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  41. Dead Babies by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  42. Plain Yellow Pumpkin by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  43. after one cheap beer too many by Krystin Marie
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  44. I Simply by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  45. Sententious (Love) by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  46. A Christmas that almost never was by Dave Fitzgerald
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  47. views of valleys by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  48. Feast Or Famine by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  49. Additionally, This Poem by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  50. And We Sing The Guise Of Common Good by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)

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