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


Premium Member Tell Me
Non Believer:

I have heard, others talk about your god
He doesn't sound like a god I wish to know
Sitting in heaven high on his throne
While I'm...

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Categories: compacted, angst, appreciation, dedication, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Tell Me
I have heard, others talk about your god
He doesn't sound like a god I wish to know
Sitting in heaven high on his throne
While I'm left...

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Categories: compacted, angst, god, jesus, judgement,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE

silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from

the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.

winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of...

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Categories: compacted, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cleaner Demeanor - Collaboration
A chambermaid whose name is Marlia
Had the most terrible diarrhoea
Whilst scrubbing a loo
She needed to pooh
Poop flowed freely from her posterior


It splattered on the newly...

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Categories: compacted, body, humorous, irony, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Jazz
His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire...

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Categories: compacted, appreciation, art, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Haibun



Bagheera - the Black Cat
Black softness nestles in his sheen so fab
as warm purrs vibrate his feline aura
Gash-like, a red neck-sash swings a gleaming
heart-shaped pendant, swaying a dangled flash.
Ebon...

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Categories: compacted, animal,
Form: Blank verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The...

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Categories: compacted, animal, creation, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My Dedication To You
This song;
	      For you
		It goes back to time
		Of ages compacted with lime
Something like;
	Aiming an arrow to the pupil of the...

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Categories: compacted, dedication, girl, high school,
Form: I do not know?
Attention Deficit Disorder
A rock for you, mountain for me
Why am I defeated so easily

I put on my pants one leg at a time
That's where there lives an...

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Categories: compacted, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Snowflake That Sank the Titanic
The Snowflake That Sank The Titanic

It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of...

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Categories: compacted, education, fate, history, remember,
Form: Verse
Skeleton of Tears
Bottle of tears is my first version of this poetic legacy series
Skeleton of tears is which the venerated versatility carries.
This might be called as a...

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Categories: compacted, creation, cry, emotions, pain,
Form: Elegy
Shorted
Procrastination
time well wasted or a gift
for work compacted...

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Categories: compacted, work
Form: Haiku
Try
If you were to confide in me one black, obscure night
With your unusually soft eyes on the brink of tears,
Your heart and soul compacted in...

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Categories: compacted, beautiful, deep, feelings, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Girls With Majestic Gestures
They chew gums in compacted face,
Cheek-bones lining made-up skin;
They belong to the golden race,
Of foaming coke and shriveled gin.

They stare at you like you were...

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© Pin Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compacted, character, funny, girl, hilarious,
Form: Burlesque
Ancestors and Us
ANCESTORS

Lady Liberty

And the Lady cries:
"Bring me your lame, maime,
Your poor, your Refugees."

Came by the Mayflower
And others like her,
The first Settlers came
from near and far;
Men, women,...

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Categories: compacted, appreciation, beauty, blessing, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things