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


Premium Member My Fun Custom Temporary Tattoo
Heart singing,

I race through warm sand;

then fling myself to the breeze!

I take the leap from land to water,

riding roller coaster crests.

Soon my skin will wear...

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Categories: custom, sea, summer,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Forgotten Gifts
She sat in her little cottage
Her ears tuned
Her body alive
Waiting…
Waiting for that knock on the door
Anytime now
She pulled back the frilly curtains
And peered out at...

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Categories: custom, giving, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love of Edelweiss
This is a slightly revised repost but which was formerly deleted.)

I climbed the high mountain,
breathed in the harsh high air,
really relished the beauty
of the valley...

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Categories: custom, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: custom, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: custom, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative



Dangerous Green
The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing...

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Categories: custom, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Winter
Huddled over that old black radio
waiting for the final announcement
School canceled tomorrow!
Bedtime? We actually have to SLEEP?

Where am I? Is that light coming from...
No-No! Don't...

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Categories: custom, nostalgia, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Darfurian Girl
I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my...

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Categories: custom, bereavement, character,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Emergent
How can one man find
More faith in a crevasse of Siula Grande,
Than most will ever know,
Sitting beneath a pulpit on Sunday?

Dulling the truth to grow...

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Categories: custom, bible, christian, dark, death,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Natural Instinct
Three Sonnets tell a story, in sequence.
[From the narrative poem, "Don't Go to Wyoming Alone"]

         I. Natural...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: custom, africa, farm, flying, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sometimes I Take Flight
Although some things might make me want to fight,
at times I have the instinct to take flight.
I noticed this at first when I was ten.
It...

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Categories: custom, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nite
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Nite
I wish we can all die from old age
Life is a book death is the last page
Brave, be...

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Categories: custom, hope, life, urban,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Tanabata-W
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love...

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Categories: custom, stars,
Form: Verse
Premium Member She's Wet Vii Continued
She's Wet VII Continued

When she gives a cough or a sneeze 
Some wee trickles down past her knees 
Her knickers are damp 
She smells like...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: custom, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
Vows
I refused to be ignored, helpless, and labeled as another bad seed
I refuse to fall in the trap that these so called "statistics" has made...

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Categories: custom, black african american, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs