Best Arbitrary Poems
Below are the all-time best Arbitrary poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of arbitrary poems written by PoetrySoup members
How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first
and...
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Categories:
arbitrary, love,
Form:
List
Categories:
arbitrary, art, sky, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
All I See Is BeautyAll I see is beauty in the burning of her words,
The flickering of flames,
Constructs of fires licking at the night
From snow white sheets of dreaming.
The...
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Categories:
arbitrary, art, inspirational, on writing
Form:
Blank verse
Brute CensorshipIf you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of...
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Categories:
arbitrary, art, freedom, love,
Form:
Didactic
You Gotta Have HeartTag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism...
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Categories:
arbitrary, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Lemons Get a Bum RapThe poor lovely lemon,
It’s really so unfair
An arbitrary choice?
Then why not choose a pear?
Why pick on...
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Categories:
arbitrary, fruit, giggle, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A - AnarchyA. Anarchy
Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate...
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Categories:
arbitrary, america, art, community, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Peace“Peace” whispered a child. It was an arbitrary gust that carried the word to a
young man who repeated it out loud in a very...
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Categories:
arbitrary, light, love, miracle, peace,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Forgotten YouForgotten you
As your mind collects the memories of yesterday
Forgotten You
Epiphanies tie into knotty strings of realization
That very moment. . .
You merely exist
Back then. ....
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Categories:
arbitrary, absence, abuse, adventure, age,
Form:
Free verse
**** Over FeatureIt’s called a Blitz
It’s more like ****
**** on the feel of it
**** on those gone before
Before when readers were respected
Before some tortured verse unnecessarily
Unnecessarily complicated...
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Categories:
arbitrary, abuse, art, devotion, emo,
Form:
Blitz
I Never Know Where To Put My Eyes When I Am In the Walmartblueberries are not an option
oversize strawberries, maybe.
16 pack
of pop-tarts
the workers look worried
or weary
worn down by the woman who taps on her wrist-watch
with her forefinger
her painted...
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Categories:
arbitrary, america, anxiety, food, society,
Form:
Free verse
Kindness, the Gift of GodKindness is a redeemer that reaches us from heaven whenever needed
through human compassion or through all the helping things around
us created on earth...
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Categories:
arbitrary, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form:
Haibun
The Bigotry That Remains, Part IThere are those in our society
who scream about fighting bigotry,
claim that we hate people with dark skin,
when you fired for insulting them,
claim that our women...
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Categories:
arbitrary, america, culture, discrimination, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The Insatiable White CreaturesBeneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
They came, greedy and insatiable white creatures,
Cloaked in prim pretense,
Every curve of their features seemed to express a...
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Categories:
arbitrary, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Revelation Now As ThenWhen The White Horseman rides you will know.
Retribution and Conquest prevail,
only their names and faces
changeable and interchangeable,
and healing is buried in silent craft.
The White...
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Categories:
arbitrary, allegory,
Form:
Free verse