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Best Celled Poems

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


Amoeba - Or Single Celled Organism
I feign disinterest
Because to appear too interested
Might cause unrest in you
Who claims he too is tired
Of the loneliness that comes from
Being alone yet you want...

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Categories: celled, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Arts and Crafts From Grains of Sand
Life is a smile of a newborn in mother's arms

Arts and crafts of stained glass from grains of sand

Freedom of a chick on its very...

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Categories: celled, life, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Mirror World
Oh in the mirror world, she dances on a stag all her own,
A reflected ballerina, stepping ever lightly in the shaded
Silhouettes of yesterday, twin figures...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celled, beauty, devotion, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Cosmic Respect
IT'S SAID A FEW HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AGO
I WAS LIVING IN THE SEA
I HAD NO LEGS TO WALK
I COULDN'T EVEN TALK
I WAS JUST A SEA...

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Categories: celled, creation, eve, garden, gospel,
Form: Epic
Premium Member In 100 Years
Arid, barren, desolate
skeletons strewn carelessly
  jarring parched landscapes

Tucked away under rocks and boulders
one-celled creatures huddle
  motionless, gasping, wheezing

Noonday sun blisters
methane-enveloped tropics
  the...

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Categories: celled, future, holocaust, loss,
Form: Verse



These Little Eyes
I watched her
dropping the phone,
in nano movements

My heart stomped
out, the harshness
of a dial tone

And from endless 
holes, these little eyes
scrunched with sadness

I suppose, I didn't...

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Categories: celled, baby, death, feelings, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Assassin's Heart
Assassin’s Heart 

freedom 
came at a cost 
 
Humpty was 
soft serve as he fell

kicked out from
assassin’s heart

into a dark world
mortal possessions removed

he grasped for...

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Categories: celled, dark, dream, journey,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Vanished
VANISHED

We are the echoing voices crying within the darkness,
Melting mists of vapor co-existing amongst the living,
The ambling drifters shifting between reality and limbo,
The vanished.

Displacement malfunction,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celled, adventure, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Star Stuff
I was born of a singularity – 
A 14 billion year-old silent explosion,
Minuscule yet massive;
Unimaginably dense  

I somehow expanded –
An infinite void,
Spawning colorful clouds
Of...

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© Nick Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celled, science, space, universe,
Form: Free verse
I Am An Alien
I Am An Alien

I am an alien to this world
Born of atoms created billions of years ago
Atoms which drifted through time
Across millions of light years...

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Categories: celled, introspection, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Women Were Deities
June 2, 2014 at 7:26pm

 Too much testosterone in our Bologna

too much testosterone-e in our baloney

killed the dignity of our femininity.

Stepped out of my character...

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Categories: celled, black african american, courage,
Form: Verse
I Know What the Moon Says
I've pass through the doors of life not knowing
Crept to, I took the steps in front of me -
And stopped 
Still not knowing what I...

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Categories: celled, emotions, feelings, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Professor Yangyinstein's Agenda
The Professor's campaign
although stealthily benign
still co-arose fair hecklers.

How can you reassure me
that our vulnerable children
will not hate me
and you
for stealing from all Earth's tribal presence,
and...

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Categories: celled, beauty, culture, math, political,
Form: Narrative
Donum Terrae - Earth's Precious Gift
When the Earth was young,
fire dominated the hellish land,
flowing like blood in veins giving
life to the rocky planet.
It glowed like molten rock within
a furnace ready...

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Categories: celled, history, life, nature, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seahorses
We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider...

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Categories: celled, fish, meaningful, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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