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Best Competed Poems

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


Premium Member A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto
I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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Categories: competed, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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Categories: competed, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Jumping For Joy
For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.

I...

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Categories: competed, career, fantasy, happiness, hope,
Form: Couplet
Annual Fair Preparation
Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some...

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Categories: competed, community, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pray For A Dawn
Who is my enemy?
Do I really know? Those 
who are waging a war to amass
lands or wealth, or those who 
are depriving the downtrodden
of food...

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Categories: competed, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gedophamee
Long long ago in a land far away
Was this slave girl named Gedophamee
Worked as a prostitute to earn some dough
Name was pronounced “Get-offa-me!”

At an athletic...

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Categories: competed, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Let the Games Begin
B.C., seven hundred seventy-six
was the date of the first Olympic picks.
They held (these sportsmanship pioneers)
Olympiads ev'ry four years

The first Olympic race was for sprinters -
Corubus,...

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Categories: competed, adventure, history, humor, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Abortion-Reverse Poem
If really, you are an angel
I do not understand !
Why an angel should murder -
Another blessed Angel
I don't know why you had to abort
Because to...

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Categories: competed, abuse, birth,
Form: Free verse
The Old Man and the Weights
It was his younger years in being a competitive Bodybuilder
He competed in numerous Bodybuilding Contests and won
It was his sheer dedication in not being out...

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Categories: competed, adventure, appreciation, art, body,
Form: Concrete
Hiroshima
Straight, direct meaning, 
No ambiguity or question, 
Of relationship or hearing, 
Only malicious attestation. 

Seventy-five thousand, 
Killed by the 15 kiloton bomb, 
In one there...

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Categories: competed, death, history, peace, planet,
Form: Quatrain
Stephanie Reid
Stef, born in New Zealand’s fine country, 
Moved to Canada aged 4 with her parents, 
Where she had a boating accident aged 9,
Which amputated her...

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Categories: competed, sports, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Farley Versus Swayze
Remember when fat boy Chris Farley
Competed against Patrick Swayze
On Saturday Night Live
Judges couldn’t decide
Picking one dancer made them crazy

In the end it’s Swayze who prevailed
Farley’s...

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Categories: competed, funnynight, night,
Form: Limerick
A Ride With the Navigator
As I travelled across the night sky
by means of an arrowhead-shaped ship
that used free energy; present across every
moon and star,
I noticed that there was no...

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Categories: competed, adventure, fantasy, imagination, science
Form: Free verse
All An Illusion
All an illusion


It's all an illusion. 
No matter where I am, I am alway just,
sitting there. Unaware, with a blank stare messy hair
and probably the...

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Categories: competed, education, funny, humor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Spelling Bee
I’d never heard those words before;
Their meanings were elusive.
To those upon the stage, such facts
Were merely inconclusive.

Derivations made it clear
Which letter groups were needed.
Concentration ruled...

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Categories: competed, life
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs