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Best Cliche Poems

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


Love Is So Cliche
If a cat
caught my tongue
it must have been after that
frog
in my throat
that was after those 
butterflies 
in my stomach

Was it vertigo
or did the earth move

I...

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Categories: cliche, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Actions Speak Louder Than Words
A kind word, of course,
Can soothe the flustered soul or bring a smile
To a frowning face. That’s a given, but
In one’s troubled times, words still...

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Categories: cliche, love, words,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Morris the Thesaurus Tortoise
Ocie the Ocelot liked words a lot!
As a tot, words like dot and trot hit the spot
Then, getting older, the folder on her shoulder grew...

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Categories: cliche, children, humor, words,
Form: Light Verse
Yellow Heart
This morning I wrote a poem
about a yellow heart 
pining for red fusion,
in a desperate attempt
to shake the fruit
that never 

falls

And tonight I am alone
without...

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Categories: cliche, hope, life, love, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Write
This is a parody of "I can't Dance." by Genesis.


Metaphor junkies
spewing their dung
actin all holy
like they've written in tounges...

Can anybody
interpret that (Bleep)
explain the poems meaning
with...

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Categories: cliche, anti bullying, funny, humor,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member The Apple Doesn'T Fall Far From the Tree
You can see him now, dirty as a horse
that slipped in the mud, planting petunias
with that infamous shamrock thumb

(Irish from his Pop   ...

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Categories: cliche, adventure, crazy, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Come Hell Or High Water
She looks out the window and sees him in the distance. 
So much fear inside leaves no room for resistance. 
If she ran right now...

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Categories: cliche, abuse, anxiety, fear, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The I Love You Conversation
"What do you know of love?" I seethe....
a well of passion longing to be freed
"I love you," the words I finally breathe
and think you'll know...

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Categories: cliche, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How To Write a Love Poem
A love poem
                How do you write a love poem

...

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Categories: cliche, love, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Dear Diary (Dying)
Maybe this can't be saved.

One more short year and I'll never see her again. I'll always be wondering about 
her but it's better left that...

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Categories: cliche, angst, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Illness is
a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...

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Categories: cliche, life, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wonderfully Wet
Lost, deep, among the grasses of the dunes

                 ...

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Categories: cliche, beach, passion, rain, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member speechless -
 - breath blushes blue between us ...

you ask the question
THAT question
so, you're requesting rationality, lucidity
when you stand before me dressed in pure starlight
ONLY starlight,...

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Categories: cliche, metaphor, night, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
June 1944
JUNE 1944

they kissed with dreams of peace in clover - for him fulfilled in Norman field

Monoku - Cliche: All’s fair in love and war...

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Categories: cliche, lost love, war,
Form: Monoku
Human With Unlimited Muse,
The inspirations domain into your very soul
Verses lay as the main thoughts of the console
Every moments recorded as the treasures of your word
Prestige left the...

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Categories: cliche, people, tribute, people, muse,
Form: Rhyme

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