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Best Complex Poems

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


Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: complex, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: complex, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: complex, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Glimpse


guilty as charged
i stole it tall
every consonant 
every vowel
every word
every sentence 

plagiarized 

the ocean
in its unique shades of blues and greens
combined and blended to create
its...

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Categories: complex, beauty, celebration, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and Sadness
Walking upon silent parched paths,
under speechless scarlet skies.
Your name sits upon the tip of my tongue,
listening to the susurration of my heart.
Each vibration echoes tones...

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Categories: complex, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member I am

In uncontrollable destinies,
fate is visible, signposted with faith.
In limitations of the intangible unforeseen,
tribulations from tangible organisms,
leave a heart yearning to release 
the force from kundalini kismet.

What...

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Categories: complex, i am,
Form: Free verse
Robot Revolution
Abandon futile attempts to run
Behold the process has begun
Step toward your darkest fear
Let’s flip the switch to a new frontier

Penetrating deep within
Evacuate your mortal sin
This...

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Categories: complex, computer, dark, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Ali

Cassius Clay

The Legend

He was not a humble man
Everything he did, was big and grand
He taunted and barbed with poetic flair
His opponents he angered
Entertainment in...

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Categories: complex, beauty, bible, character, christian,
Form: Free verse
Waiting To Be Free
Waiting to be free


I am dying, but not like anybody who died.
I am living, but in the rainbow, I do reside. 
How much longer will...

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Categories: complex, friendship, hope, life, love,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member The Curse: Collaboration
A man with a quiet demeanor
was cursed with a miniscule wiener.
He tried lotions and pills
But not one cured his ills.
Now he's a silent nail hole...

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Categories: complex, body, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member If I Let My Mind Meander
If I let my mind meander -
like a river backwards through time -
past rocks and turbulent waters
and also through the calm times
when the surface of...

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Categories: complex, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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Categories: complex, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words On the Go
Words can be whimsical, a merry-go-round
They run in a circle, they bounce up and down
They play hide-and-seek, until they are found
Look how quickly the little...

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Categories: complex, fun, silly, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmare
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo“

In the absence of love,
a childhood is shaped by the stars,
but when black smoke...

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Categories: complex, analogy, childhood, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: complex, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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