Best Absentia Poems
Below are the all-time best Absentia poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of absentia poems written by PoetrySoup members
Inspiration In AbsentiaWhen I use my pen more often as a dart
then a tool for writing poetry, I'm lost.
When my mind can't find words that rhyme
I grumble...
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Categories:
absentia, absence, muse, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Of Absentiaimagining life
without him
drawing a blank
AP: 3rd place 2023
Posted on August 29, 2018...
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Categories:
absentia, change, emotions, future, journey,
Form:
Senryu
Categories:
absentia, absence, addiction, anger, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
The Vanishing OrganSam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
From whence I salute
is thin...
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Categories:
absentia, funny, lost, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Love's RequisitionI come to your bedside once more,
you've poured our photos and poetry on the floor
an act of apostasy, a grim admission, the room in dim...
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Categories:
absentia, i miss you, love,
Form:
Epic
Black Cat
"BLACK CAT"
SILENCE
prowls on soft paws
with sharp claws
Cutting up the
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves
SILIENCE
In absentia
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm
gants...
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Categories:
absentia, cat, color, dark, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Wishing For 1984Wishing for 1984
'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance
is Strength Big Brother…'
is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility,...
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Categories:
absentia, dedication,
Form:
Haibun
Christmas At the Cuckoo's NestCHRISTMAS AT THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Of all the holidays that come and go
Christmas is the one that we love best.
No matter how crazy, it just goes...
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Categories:
absentia, celebration, christmas, crazy, holiday,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
absentia, age,
Form:
Haiku
Limerick: Once a Bold Billionaire From Ma-Lays-She-AhLimerick: Once a bold billionaire from Ma-Lays-She-Ah
Once a bold billionaire from Ma-Lays-She-Ah*
Bought up politicos to militia
They put his money to work
Called him a right proper...
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Categories:
absentia, humorous, satire,
Form:
Limerick
The Last Time That God Lost His FaithI was there, the last time that God lost
His Faith. Admittedly, since the death
of His Son, there have been a few bad
years that...
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Categories:
absentia, bible, god,
Form:
Free verse
Still Life With FlowersIt is an unseasonable March day.
My kitchen blinds are drawn against morning sun,
their slender slats like new skin protecting the body's vital organs;
eyelids before this...
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Categories:
absentia, fantasy, flower, garden,
Form:
Free verse
Lullaby For Sleepy JoeOld Man Biden
Dat old Joe Biden
He must know somethin
But seems like nothin
But he keeps rollin
He Keeps on rollin along
Old man Biden
dat old...
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Categories:
absentia, allusion, political,
Form:
Ballad
Trump Goes Missingwhatever
a welcome lessening of blether
in absentia
it's now outside the tent you are....
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Categories:
absentia, abuse, trust,
Form:
Clerihew
Candor MortisMy autopsy room is a confessional,
where killers in absentia divulge
their sins through bodies
rigid and frigid, mutilated and mute.
Graffiti of abrasions, contusions and lacerations
reenact...
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Categories:
absentia, death, life, memory, men,
Form:
Free verse