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Best Buttery Poems

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


Premium Member The Irony of Fate
In a moment of juvenile jealousy 
he envies his red rival

with its intimate and greedy embrace of her angels’ share
of honey and vanilla spice
as wet...

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Categories: buttery, age, desire, fate, irony,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: buttery, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Crushed
Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying ...

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Categories: buttery, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal
In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing...

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Categories: buttery, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
An Open Window
I watch this world pass by, 
miracle after miracle, 
overcome with thoughts 
of life and death - 
heated in a buttery sky;
the air melts into...

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Categories: buttery, faith, imagery, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Xanthophobia
Zanthoxylum shrubs with clustered yellow flowers,
Yolks of eggs and yellow jackets make her want to scream.
Xanthophobia ensnares her. It is sickening
Wakening to an aureate dawn’s...

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Categories: buttery, fear, psychological, yellow,
Form: ABC
Sitting On the Fence At Twilight
Sitting on the Fence at Twilight

When the sun waved good-bye in the afternoon,
I’d say hello to the smiling Man in the Moon. 
Perching on our...

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Categories: buttery, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Worst Day, Bar None
I was a public relations specialist, ever promoting positivity to people,
As positivity is promoted afar, by the sight of the towering cathedral.

My work was very...

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Categories: buttery, confusion, fantasy, life, magic,
Form: Couplet
Angel of Arctic Moonrise
This poem is a special devotion for my mother, who has always been a healing sun for these wintry eyes. Mumma, you're my hope, my...

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Categories: buttery, child, deep, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MILTON CREEK NEWS
Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buttery, places,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Life I Love
(In the words of a happy little mermaid)

I slide through silky cerulean seas
Silently swimming wherever I please;
I glide through water with buttery ease,
With skin that...

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Categories: buttery, beauty, flower, sea, sun,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Cutie Pie
My Grammy, smiling so whole
Creates the best pecan pies
A treat I cannot control,
When she plans a big surprise.

Those wrinkled, age-old fingers
Blend honey and nuts on...

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Categories: buttery, food, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Peaches and Cream
She was looking my way, I had nothing to say,
Though I'd dreamed that this day would transpire;
With her beaux all around, why would she look...

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Categories: buttery, beauty, first love, flower,
Form: Quatrain
Love Lasagna
She plunks down a plate of egg rolls
Man, oh man, do these greasy pieces of heaven take tolls
On my heart, dear Mama
Shows me love with...

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Categories: buttery, family, mother, love,
Form: Free verse
Gloom In Bloom
Yellow petals shroud the glens in buttery bloom,

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Categories: buttery, animals, nature, seasons,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs