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Best Carbon Poems

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


Premium Member White Picket Fence
Featuring: Keith :)
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Fresh sand garments 
The Mental Colosseum floor
Self-infliction's--waging wars 
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A mask, tiny holes
Breathing heavily
Dancing around my toes
Broad carbon steel
Safe...

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Categories: carbon, adventure, art, beauty, body,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: carbon, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pointing To the Problems
POINTING TO THE PROBLEMS 
  {Bivouacs}

Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.

Out of...

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Categories: carbon, earth day, emotions, fish,
Form: Free verse
The Enmity
The Enmity
Seeking justice is the only way you knew how to protect us.
As a juvenile delinquent I was too young to recognize it.
I am always...

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Categories: carbon, feelings, history, identity, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.

Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...

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Categories: carbon, earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form: Couplet



Elemental Designs
ELEMENTAL DESIGN

Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy

An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous 
We dream...

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Categories: carbon, heaven, moon, science, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tree
A Tree

I’m a tree lining a country road
Along with hundreds of other
Trees in the direction of a verdant
Forest—full of scenic wonder and 
Teaming with life.

All...

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Categories: carbon, creation, god, imagery, journey,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chasing Footprints
CHASING FOOTPRINTS

Some feet are bigger than others
none bigger than those
left by your brothers -
that you tried to fill.

The foot that Dad
would put “right up ‘ur...

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Categories: carbon, growing up, humor, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 2
Continued from Part 1

Hungary hounds harangue the highlands,
howl at skies and desert islands…
Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose

Lighthouse lamps and lanterns...

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Categories: carbon, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: carbon, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning...

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Categories: carbon, environment, natural disasters, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conifer's Confession
Numberless now ...
Many, the years since then
When I uncurled my toes and reached thru soil
Pushed up and spread out

While beneath me the richness of the...

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Categories: carbon, appreciation, love, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Indie Anna Jones

Foxy ponytail got a sharp tongue,
her pretty jade eyes blink-blink lashes 
really cut to the chase

Keep the skirt hounds on the run,
obsession scent spur their...

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Categories: carbon, cool, identity, romantic, word
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mother Nature
"Join hands to sweep clean of all dirt and preserve the pristine beauty of Nature to enhance the quality of living. If not, fear her...

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Categories: carbon, abuse, beauty, home, nature,
Form: Ode
Day By Day
Waning love is a cold diamond thing
The hurt pressure 
from the thought of losing you
is such a hard burden
Squeezing the hope out of me

Heavy-hearted acceptance...

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Categories: carbon, emotions, hurt, pain, sad
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs