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Best Avail Poems

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


Premium Member My Interpretation of If By Rudyard Kipling
MY INTERPRETATION OF IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING -  

If you can keep calm when all around you,
Are frustrated, and angry with you,
Always believe in...

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Categories: avail, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: avail, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Little Owl and the Wolf
A snowy owl sat on her nest
   while tending to her brood;
her mate flew out upon a quest 
   to gather...

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Categories: avail, friendship,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Murder of Cherry Creek Town
Sounds of a Day in the Past

Cherry Creek was a thriving small town
Children played on swings up and down.

They screamed with delight and why not?
Today...

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Categories: avail, abuse, break up, environment,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS
If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avail, humor,
Form: Limerick



Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: avail, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
A *****-Graphical Slamming Rebuttal
Seems like I could be on top of the world.
I think about poetry like my tongue is pearled.
Just the other day I wrote a poem...

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Categories: avail, rights, universe,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Lego Narcs - Under the Cover of Night

Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate....

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Categories: avail, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Part 3
Part 3:          AT HEAVEN’S GATES

To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though...

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Categories: avail, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: avail, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cobalt Silhouettes
A teal twilight inks cobalt silhouettes
while shining stars unveil their twinkling lights.
And shadows slink forth, melding with the night,
as a setting sun feigns a scarlet...

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Categories: avail, nature,
Form: Blank verse
I Once Was a Soldier
1.
Why do we persecute this Jesus?
this Palestinian Jew, with claim
to one almighty God?
Ahh! let me home, it’s all too
much, and no avail.

so I Longinus, leader...

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Categories: avail, jesus, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Winter Sun
Upon this yearly powdered dale,
where leafless birch in talon-ed stance
come begging in their circumstance,

the snowflakes fell in silent veil 
as thick as densely woven cloth
to...

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Categories: avail, snow, sun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Into the Depths of My Soul
Into the depths of my soul I searched once

The happiest day of my life to find

Difficult to locate wasn't at all 

For was the day...

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Categories: avail, happiness, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member How the Heck
How the Heck!

We’d lost our cat; I searched the house calling
“Here kitty, kitty” and outside we
scanned the streets, all to no avail.
Later, in the bedroom,...

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Categories: avail, cat,
Form: Etheree

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