Best Applauded Poems
Below are the all-time best Applauded poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of applauded poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Girl Named Sue - POTWPOTW 1 Oct 2018
Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...
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Categories:
applauded, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am But a Grain of Sand"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach,
and I am but a grain of sand."
...
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Categories:
applauded, character, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Jallianwala BaghThe occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...
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Categories:
applauded, death, england, garden, history,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
applauded, how i feel, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Armadilly Billy, the Slingshot KidsterArmadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing...
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Categories:
applauded, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
My End Is NowWhen I was growing up,
Daily they packed my outgrown:
Shoes, shirts,suits and trousers;
And paid me commendation
As they milled around me
Like night ants around light!
When I was...
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Categories:
applauded, angst, betrayal, emotions, growth,
Form:
Verse
Our PeachIn a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach
Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream
In which as a...
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Categories:
applauded, beach,
Form:
Free verse
A Bridge To Better DaysTo that one soul reading this…
whose problems seem abyss.
There is a bridge to better days,
where sunshine still exists.
To discover the way,
and a warm place to...
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Categories:
applauded, conflict, confusion, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance of SunsetIt was time for day to bid adieu to the setting sun,
when tangerine hues blend with those of pale pink.
Not to miss the titian glow,...
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Categories:
applauded, sunset,
Form:
Rhyme
August 4 1914It was the summer - August 4
When England joined the First World War
1914 the very year
Before wives and children shed their bitter tears
‘The war to...
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Categories:
applauded, memorial day, poetry, remember,
Form:
I do not know?
We DancedI penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.
Such insight. Such depth.
Mussolini...
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Categories:
applauded, introspectionme, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Legacy of Law - Part One -Law began by living,
locomotion meeting the rails of electric rainfall,
Consequence coursing through interconnected crossbeams
making all form fruit of the first & final recipe,
one great statute...
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Categories:
applauded, adventure, universe,
Form:
Epic
It Only Hurts When You Let ItIt only hurts when you let it. I used to be the living example of the words to Shania Twain's song: "It only hurts when...
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Categories:
applauded, hurt, prejudice,
Form:
Prose
Close My Eyes and Dance AwayGive me all of my private time
I will succumb without a fight
And later be your every whim
First those few seconds of respite
Before once more...
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Categories:
applauded, abuse, courage, dance, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Denser Not Mensa Part 1- CollaborationAn old gal applied to join Mensa
Gee she couldn’t be any denser
She went in the wrong door
On the thirty third floor
And there she enrolled as...
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Categories:
applauded, humorous, irony,
Form:
Limerick