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


Premium Member 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: reverse, humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: reverse, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reverse, adventure, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ultimate Centerfold Girl
At center of soul,
Lien my  wealth  of gold,
In the bible,
You’re very well liable,
To see gold,
In centerfold,
Of soul,

Not in centerfold ,
Of playboy, so bold,
Not...

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Categories: reverse, allegory, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: reverse, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Get Yourself a Big Black Cat To Cancel Out Bad Luck
If there should be a pot hole as deep as Satan’s pit
appearing as I’m driving, I’d run right over it!

My husband’s luck is worse than...

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Categories: reverse, cat,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Home With Two Cats
These are two etherees that will be put together side by side to form ONE complete poem having 11 syllables per line, so I thought...

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Categories: reverse, baby, cat, , cute,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member My White Lace Tablecloth
I washed my white lace tablecloth and hung it out to dry
The bleach did the best it could-it was worth the try
'Though no one else...

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Categories: reverse, family, forgiveness, friendship, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lost and Found
Labyrinth paths, winding and twisting, a serpentine meandering,
otherworldly, ethereal, much too dreamy, lost and wandering;
saturnine, long raven sparkling hair that I hide behind, woefully,
tangled in...

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Categories: reverse, lost, universe,
Form: Verse
Sossled
Sossled
I wandered as lonely as a dog,
Me pantaloons were full of frogs
Slurping suds while on the grog,
Dog paddling with the ducks,

I thought I knew her...

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Categories: reverse, adventure,
Form: Ballade
The Depression Destroyer
What causes someone to sink so low
And let an upright spirit to kneel and bow
To the pressures they are unable to undo
Neither can reverse this...

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Categories: reverse, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Shhh Dreams Are Dreaming
S tarlit night sky dreams
T o reach for us,
A journey from infinity to finite
I nverse of our dreams,
R eciprocal of zero
W alking down to touch...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reverse, imagination, night, night, sky,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Ghosts of the Living
Fall the leaves of the forest tho death has yet passed... 
Unto moonlit shadows within crypts' hidden rot 
Apparitions they say, where the innocent massed
Oh...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reverse, allegory, betrayal, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hold Those Tears Falling From Sullen Skies
Hold Those Tears Falling From Sullen Skies

Hold those tears falling from sullen skies
floods below, drown the sorrows of lost men.
Enough that mother earth hears thy...

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Categories: reverse, art, deep, forgiveness, journey,
Form: Sonnet
Loves Doubling Helix
   Storms seductive desiring of dreams   
   Forms favoring moonlight of beams
    Craving hearts upon starlit...

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Categories: reverse, dedication, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme

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