Best By And Large Poems
Below are the all-time best By And Large poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of by and large poems written by PoetrySoup members
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
by and large, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
by and large, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
by and large, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
by and large, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
by and large, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
Pretty Shoes and Cracked FeetOnce 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:
by and large, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Because of YouI used to be naive, I used to trust
but then that trust just crumbled into dust
the world at large is so unkind, it's true
there is...
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Categories:
by and large, meaningful, truth,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
by and large, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
by and large, french, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Shape
The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
The Grinch...
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Categories:
by and large, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
by and large, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
by and large, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick FormA desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.
Having always been...
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Categories:
by and large, adventure, wife,
Form:
Limerick
I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)
Leaving under a blood moon
...
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Categories:
by and large, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
FootprintsFrothy waves stretch to kiss toes
Hikers plodding sandy coasts
Leaving imprints on the shore
Who journeyed here, perhaps this morn
As the orange orb created dawn
Summoning sun worshipers
Footprints...
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Categories:
by and large, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse