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


Drugs
Words.
These words merely written on paper.
They do so much good for the soul. 
They're something miraculous.
Like spun gold from the dull lead embedded in a...

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Categories: bettered, addiction, dark, deep, feelings,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Wife and Mother
WIFE AND MOTHER

 
Dearly Departed Sweetheart, and husband.
Some serious time I put in when I said " I do "-I kept true to the vows,...

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Categories: bettered, death, death of a
Form: Prose Poetry
Borderline Personality Disorder Ptsd
These secrets of the things I went through
As a child are so hard to keep, so hard to tell
I've made no pact, no promise with...

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Categories: bettered, abuse, anxiety, bullying, conflict,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Wife and Mother
Dearly Departed Sweetheart,and husband.
Serious time I put in, when I said " I do "-I kept true to the vows, but not to myself.
you have...

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Categories: bettered, absence, death, irony,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage -...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bettered, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member My Sporting Inspiration
re-post inspired by Brenda's contest

THE HERO

Every Tuesday on the dot,I would be off to the newsagent like a shot.A solitary 
sixpence,all my wealth to pick...

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Categories: bettered, inspirational, sports,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member In Essiac I Trust
The tea I use was born in Canada.
Holistic doctors told me of its name.
This strange concoction does a lot of good
with curing cancer its main...

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Categories: bettered, drink, health,
Form: Quatrain
Ballad of 'Long Ben'
His gold teeth glistened in the sun
As ‘Long Ben Avery’ turned
To face his captives, head lowered,
Their providence to learn

For Avery was a pirate bold
Trained in...

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Categories: bettered, adventure, history, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Childhood Hero
Every Tuesday on the dot,
I would be off to the newsagent like a shot.
A solitary sixpence,all my wealth to pick up 
my favourite comic from...

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Categories: bettered, childhood, hero,
Form: Narrative
Acceptance
Acknowledgement of God is step number one.
Knowing oneself, strength and weakness won.
Inspection by the soul of thoughts concealed,
A truthful inward view at last, revealed.

Acceptance is...

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Categories: bettered, life
Form: Couplet
This Is Why I Love Writing
Edgar Rice Burroughs went beyond stars
To write of epics of Thuvia the maid of Mars,
Of Tarzan raised by Apes and Venus and Pellucidar,
Having  stuck...

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Categories: bettered, write, writing,
Form: Light Verse
William the Great
See as a child having a child he was my saving grace, allowing me to refocus my path to a better place, Where he could...

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Categories: bettered, absence, courage, mother, son,
Form: Free verse
Four For Two
Monster with Demon, Devil and Angel
Fourfold in friendship so spellingly causing
Reasons for living and giving of love
Small sensing sproutings of canine confusion
Gamboling ever for tender...

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Categories: bettered, pets,
Form: Sonnet
Here Lies Bob

Here Lies Bob



Have you heard the sad, sad story,
Of this man in all his glory?
He said that he would never wed,
Now, too soon, he is...

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Categories: bettered, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jesus' Great Love Has Unfettered Chains
"Jesus, Jesus there is  just something about that name"*
Jesus
He is my friend and shephard
His great love has unfettered
Chains, I'm free
Now as if "devil never...

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Categories: bettered, faith, hope, love, heart,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs