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


Premium Member A Leap of Faith

               maybe
my works are only writes
   should poetry speak...

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Categories: category, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tangled Inside
Lost in a maze of dreams
  where nothing is as it seems,

- but then again, it never really was -

My heart is held captive...

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Categories: category, dark, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mental Hospital Bills
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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Categories: category, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Creative Inspiration
Inspiration where do you go when
you leave and your dry, barren
riverbed causes blinding dust storms in
my mind?  Do you evaporate into
mist, become a gray...

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Categories: category, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's My Birthday and I'Ll Cry If I Want To - Emotive Poem
I visited mum today 
as I do almost every day

She greeted me with open arms

And then says

‘I didn’t think you’d come ...
I thought you had...

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Categories: category, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oops - Please Join In the Collaboration
Sue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!

05~24~17

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: category, baby, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Shadowland
 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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Categories: category, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Before You
Each day was a gift 
without you.
Every sunrise breathtaking
without you.
Music moved me 
without you. 
But ever since our first night, 
nothing is as beautiful ...

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© Tom Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: category, desire, i miss you,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member As a Poet
As a poet
you have the right 
to remain silent.
If you give up that right.
Anything you say
can and will be used
in the court of public opinion.
You...

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Categories: category, 5th grade, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
You ask what poetry can mean to me?
No glib reply will leap forth from my tongue.
As well to ask if food and drink might be
Of...

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Categories: category, appreciation, imagination, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Air of Freedom

In a world where chains restrict,
my one wish would be for everyone to be free.
If I could alter the fate of those forced into silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: category, abuse, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inanevilpredatorialmendacity
What a slap in the face!
It’s an international disgrace!

(Descriptive distraction)
and (subversion in action)

It’s now commonly used in parlance by judiciary
while in literature this prevalent (lie)...

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Categories: category, caregiving, literature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Curse of Caste
                   I

They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: category, birth, class, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Humans Need An After Life
(unfit 
category 
but no 
choice.)

Life would 
be 
worthless 
and 
short
If this is 
the only 
dear life 
we 
have
Great 
plans just 
death can 
abort
to be 
useless...

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Categories: category, absence,
Form: Nazm
Premium Member The Diary of a Tobacco Chewer-W
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”

5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life...

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Categories: category, cancer, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs