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Best Avoid Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: avoid, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Halloween's Mask of Comfort
In a house beside the forest lives a woman and her son

He is scarred by burns and fire – hidden kept from everyone

There is land...

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Categories: avoid, desire, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...

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Categories: avoid, how i feel, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: avoid, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Five Letter Words
Noble Souls

Noble souls arise,
build steps,
forge roads,
carry tough loads,
scale peaks,
quell fears,
dream stars which blaze,
clear those black skies.
These souls would tears erase.

Noble souls offer cheer,
avoid wrath
crush their...

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Categories: avoid, appreciation,
Form: Verse



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: avoid, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gifts of Reflection
The Angels have come
to take me away
The only hug I can give
are the words I write today
In my shaking hand
They've placed a golden pen
So I...

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Categories: avoid, courage, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: avoid, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: avoid, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avoid, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Daddy
In the rundown little house where her family currently lives,
the fourteen-year old glances obediently at her glaring daddy,
nodding her head in quiet compliance
to his usual...

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Categories: avoid, family, slavery, , cute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Life On the River
A balance in life can solve the riddle. 
To find the balance, start in the middle.
Distractions from the banks may lead us wrong.
Go with the...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avoid, emotions, life, pain, river,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fall Tiptoed In
Fall Tiptoed In 

Softly, last night it tiptoed in--
that wisp of crispness in the air!
I grab a quilt made way back when
and watch the sunrise...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avoid, autumn,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Because of Just One Poetess
BECAUSE OF JUST ONE POETESS

I let go of living in sadness.
My life seemed going nowhere,
and looking back now, it all
seemed like madness!

It wasn't because she did
gymnastics...

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Categories: avoid, beautiful, celebration, encouraging, poetess,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: avoid, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Shattered Sighs