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Best Clamped Poems

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


Premium Member Do You Need Some Pixie Dust
Laughing, dancing, having the time of her life,
Faerie Fun went from mushroom house to toadstool cottage,
Spreading joy,
Playing with everyone
In a kind and pleasant way.
There was...

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Categories: clamped, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: clamped, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Birds Fly
Little houses deep asleep
   In beds with down pillows
      people are
       ...

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Categories: clamped, anger, metaphor, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Devouring Presence
DEVOURING PRESENCE -- REPOST
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

gray as...

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Categories: clamped, life, passion
Form: Free verse
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the...

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Categories: clamped, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Undamaged Devotion -
Half eaten hearts
pump on three surviving parts,
Loyalty, Lust, and Longing,
thump thump thump,

I was your secret crush
you were my finest rush,
put Poetry in my veins like...

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Categories: clamped, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday
Hail from top of birth birch tree,
A birdie sings merrily;
Prancing to and fro on each branch,
Pink, yellow, white flowers on its beak are clamped;
Yearning everyone’s...

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Categories: clamped, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Mystery of a Dead Child
Pardoned through the postmortem black
The green air like gas driving through
The dense flakes laid on my head.

My body lay heavy with the sunken Red Sea.
My...

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Categories: clamped, death, emotions, farewell, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Feelings Came So Damned Fast
It was her kitchen, her family, and my newly-married man, and I aimed to please her by properly being fed. 
With a smile and a...

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Categories: clamped, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charlie's Cartoon Characters
CHARLIE'S CARTOON CHARACTERS

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a far away land, in the land where Charlie lived, there was a group of...

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Categories: clamped, character, children, funny, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted Highlands
Deep within the highland mists, white heather, bright adorning,
     I last beheld those flaring eyes, though tender as the borning.

I'd gone...

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Categories: clamped, fantasy, passion, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
After the Dance
elbow to elbow no room to breathe
in this place i once thought an escape
missing her more each day
and each passing moment
brown children with vaseline
greased scalps...

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Categories: clamped, introspection, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cross Road
As he shuffled toward me I cringed.
Ripped clothes and shoes with flapping soles had alerted me.
I could actually see his sunken cheeks and lips clamped...

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Categories: clamped, anti bullying, care, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thus and So
pressed ...
kind as a criminal
your cold kisses clamped shut -
like a thousand stiff arms
they walled me in ...
I was your dirigible, soaring
promises made in passion...

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Categories: clamped, analogy, imagery, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Long Are Eight Minutes
How long are eight minutes
                    ...

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Categories: clamped, america, change, cry, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

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