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Best Collar Poems

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


The Blue Collar Guy
In the stillness of my room  I lay in bed
arms snugged tightly around my pillow
turned  side-ways facing moon and light
But it is not...

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Categories: collar, fantasy, poverty,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On Watching Innocence
A pretty girl in pleated dress of red,
with collar laced in white beneath her throat
and matching bow upon her small blonde head,
is glancing round the...

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Categories: collar, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Time Machine
Ride with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...

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Categories: collar, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form: Couplet
No Sounds of Any Kind Please, Even Silence
The Sounds of Silence
By: Simon & Garfunkle

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I...

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Categories: collar, funny, parody,
Form: Lyric
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - Repost
I thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because 
it might help someone see things a little differently or...

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Categories: collar, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member More Secret Selves
I've been wondering about our secret selves...

The vegetarian smoker
The introverted joker

The soldier with the peace sign
The anonymous byline

The accountant with unfinished sums
The deaf musician's steel...

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Categories: collar, conflict, identity,
Form: I do not know?
The Gift From Prison
On a pleasant Sunday morning,
beside a river in a park,
I went strolling in the city,
in the dawn just after dark.
Every bench; any haven,
slept a host...

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Categories: collar, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: collar, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: collar, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
To Be a Kid Once Again
I don't need to remember what it was like  to be  a kid

 I don' t need to memorize where all the fun...

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Categories: collar, growing up, happiness, kid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Evening With Snickers
Off his leash, he escapes,
diving under a chair.
Through each room of our house, 
he darts here; he darts there.

Little scamp can’t be caught.
He careens crazily.
For...

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Categories: collar, dog, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pretty In Pink
Fancy feast
In my best china dish
How she loves to be finicky
Wearing nothing but
Her pretty pink rhinestone collar
As she tiptoes across the room
Slinky and sleek
With a...

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Categories: collar, cat, fashion, life, perspective,
Form: Personification
Abused
It could have been a beautiful memory to write down

Walking hand in hand with mama

My long brown french pleats  bouncing in the wind 

My...

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Categories: collar, abuse, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And Then I Opened That Door- For Comp
(For Competition 'And then I opened THAT door', sponsor- John Lawless)


My relationship had broken down, when love ran out of gas
so down life's dark and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collar, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Feather In My Hand, Ink In My Heart.
Trickling over my mind
Came scampering the question
This dilemma of a heart
Come running into my embrace
Stricken with fright

It asked me
Father, why do we write
And so I...

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Categories: collar, devotion, on writing and
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs