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Best Behave Poems

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


Premium Member Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet
Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: behave, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



You'Ll Find Me Before the Ink Is Dry
My inky echoes conflate, 
atop mountains of ivory versos; 
Blank pages into whispers,
like the sway of moonlight tides;

Papers dappled by my ineffable, 
frays of jet-black...

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Categories: behave, poets, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kitten In the Barn
It’s always a good practice when living on a farm,
To have a family of cats living in the barn
They always keep the rats and mice...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behave, cat, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member LIFE IS NOT A BATTLE FIELD
Be strong in your beliefs and opinions 
Give and receive them respectfully 
Discuss , debate, disagree , 
Devoid of anger and intimidation 
Be polite and...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behave, anti bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member R I P - Santa
~Do you Believe~ 

Here's the little twist in my parents home
Spreading fairy dust since I was 3 years old
The prancing and dancing before Christmas Eve
Made...

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Categories: behave, celebration, christmas, december, holiday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Truth About Truth -
Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at...

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Categories: behave, sports, future, truth,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member I Cannot Say
I cannot say how poems come to be-
from just one thought to full reality.

I cannot say how I hunt down my words
to image themes like...

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Categories: behave, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Father/Son Zoo Trip
“Why do the Rams behave violently?”
The little boy queried of his father.
“They need all their might to fight the Jaguars,
But Jags are fast, don’t know...

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Categories: behave, animals, funnymom, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enoughs
Do we have "enough" .
Will silver flakes of winter's blade
cut us down 
or build us up.
Will our pasts behave like choir boys, stay in time
or...

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Categories: behave, people,
Form: Rhyme
Love Potion
Welcome my dear
what can I do you for? 
I offer spells and charms galore 

A love philter you say? 
I know just the thing
When I...

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Categories: behave, dark, halloween, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fear of Being Alone
If your behavior is a reflection
     of what others say you are,
         ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behave, identity, introspection, loneliness, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe...

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Categories: behave, adventure, children, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Oblivion
Is my fate to go on living in this impervious place
where everyone dons a mask to conceal his face?
I'm floundering in this troubling tenure of...

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Categories: behave, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anthropomorphic

If food for finer thoughts we did not crave,
If sense of purpose we did not apply,
If we did not critique how we behave, 
If dormant...

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Categories: behave, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
We Who Laugh Last, Laugh Best
That foolish stranger who had wandered into town
bickering with folks, trying to shove them around
was nothing more than an old worn-out clown.
Beneath Soup Creek Bridge,...

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Categories: behave, community, poets,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs