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Best Better Known(A) Poems

Below are the all-time best Better Known(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of better known(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: better known(a), environment, poets,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Wait
No end where love's found
no beginning, though there must've been
I can't recall, seems it was always there
going on and on..

No life better known, restless like...

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Categories: better known(a), body, devotion, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkest of Confessions
Darkest of Confessions


Voices in my head
Dancing abreast with the abstract
Shattered glasses and shattered dreams
History repeats many a lovers’ defeat

I demand a duel
With my heart
I welcome...

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Categories: better known(a), angst, appreciation, french, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Valentine For You
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Wait,
Violets are really more purple
that's why they're called "Violet",
right?
And come to think of it Roses are pink
and sometimes white and yellow
and
peach
and...

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Categories: better known(a), funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Colleen Bawn- Ellen Hanley
Young Ellen Hanley caught John Scanlon’s eye
He was determined that she’d be his wife
Their marriage was cursed and Ellen would die
On the River Shannon she...

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Categories: better known(a), death, ireland, marriage, murder,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Robin Wears No Hood: Not For Any Contest
There's an archer dressed in Lincoln green, a friend to those in need.
No thief is he who offers encouragement to people with kind deeds.

A jealous...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better known(a), hero,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Bit of Mid Week Humour
FRED

Fred the farmer he bought a new tractor
The milk maid he wanted to attract her
He said you wanna ride 
So she jumped in beside 
Said...

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Categories: better known(a), humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member You're On the Naughty List
A Parody for Soupers based on the song, 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.'

You better not shout
You better not sigh
You better not pout
I'm telling you...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better known(a), holiday, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Puppet Strings
PUPPET STRINGS 
In a constant lack of motion 
through the window of your mind, 
all you seek is your seclusion 
and a friend you never...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better known(a), life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin-The Acrostic Style
~Sir Charles(Charlie)Spencer Chaplin~
(Acrostic)


C-harlie Chaplin as he was better known made
H-is name famous in the early 20's in the silent screen.His
A-cting career took off from then...

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Categories: better known(a), art, beautiful, celebrity, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Farrier
He billed himself as an expert in the field of "equine podiatry",
Better known as a farrier for farmers and the cream of society!
Keeping horses shod...

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Categories: better known(a), animals
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Xxxix, Part One
Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One

Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better known(a), anti bullying, courage, dedication,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Take This Stinking Keyboard and Shove It
Take This Stinking Keyboard And Shove It
(Tribute to Johnny Paycheck)


Take this stinking keyboard and shove it
I ain't awritin' here no damn more.
Gone is my inspiration,...

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Categories: better known(a), art, poetry, song, tribute,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ferris Wheel
FERRIS WHEEL
In a constant lack of motion
through the window of your mind,
all you seek is your seclusion
and a friend who's hard to find;
you've been looking...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better known(a), allusion, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Colorado High
Colorado is renown fer the majestic Rockies a-reachin' fer the sky.
Now, 'tis better known fer sittin' 'round, smokin' pot and gittin' high!

Visitors used to come...

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Categories: better known(a), humorous, parody,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs