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Best Card Poems

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


Baseball Card
And there you were - 
blue cap and jersey, white pants
bat held high above the shoulder
cocked and ready to swat one out
in that perfect stance...

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Categories: card, baseball, son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: card, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: card, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: card, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: card, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme



Dear Ex
Dear Ex,

I know you and I had our differences.
We were always finding new ways to say I loathe you.

It was my blameworthiness that allowed the...

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Categories: card, life, recovery from...rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: card, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member - the Brown Fog -
There are times you have no choice
To infinite unity, the tide comes as determined
You are part of the earth, the sun, the moon, the wind...

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Categories: card, dark, drink, drug, pain,
Form: Free verse
A Debutante's Ball To Remember
A Debutante’s Ball to Remember

In the autumn of my life, oft have I recalled that superb summer night,
when I finally experienced my long-awaited heart’s delight.
Family...

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Categories: card, celebration, dance, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Life
There have been those who said,                   ...

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Categories: card, food, green, home, jobs,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Long Walk Home
T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Categories: card, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Hero
I hear them say,                                          ...

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Categories: card, food, snow, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Writers Write To Write
Quote By Poet "Art can come from anywhere. 
Paint with paint or paint with words." 


Writers write to write with pen or computer in hand,       ...

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Categories: card, bird, computer, day, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God
Does God have more than one name,
in the bible many names can be found.
In Exodus Moses said,
"The LORD Is My Banner."
Jehovah Shalom,
"The LORD our Peace."
Then...

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Categories: card, bible, faith, god, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Acts of Aggression
         Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."

His...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: card, war,
Form: Rhyme

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