Best Compression Poems
Below are the all-time best Compression poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of compression poems written by PoetrySoup members
It's Great To Be AliveWrinkles and gray hair
get me in a rage
and I say to myself,
“Why don't you act your age!"
My poor aching feet
remind me to wear sensible shoes
but...
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Categories:
compression, age, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Law of Spiral SpringsRobert Hooke caused quite a commotion
In the academic ocean
When in spite of his Gown
With a lady of the Town
He enjoyed simple harmonic motion
Not...
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Categories:
compression, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Nagacourt, Nepal 2003The hawk lay upon the lazy late afternoon
air currents;
Floating, circling, spiraling, ever downward.
Its wings spread wide, white feather-tips splayed.
It teetered on the updraft
above...
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Categories:
compression, adventure
Form:
Personification
Take My Breath AwaySirens cut through
the stillness of the night
blinding lights flashing
Police and paramedics
battle to save you
Chest compression
rhythmic pulses
desperate attempts
to breathe life
into cyanosed lips
Now you rest
under...
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Categories:
compression, dark, death, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Mood Swings - Collaboration with Ink Empress
There is no escape from strange morning whims,
when irritation causes numbness in my limbs.
Dawn has become an unwelcome nemesis,
rage for sunrise an uncontrollable...
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Categories:
compression, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form:
Rhyme
En Passantbetween the space of “aim” and “fire”
is the place I least desire
life, in here, is infinitely small
in this space, we are nothing at...
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Categories:
compression, eulogy, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream ForeverThee, are my deepest emotions; taken beyond; my control.
Thou do express love; sweeter; than view of sunshine.
One single touch, from you, feels so fine.
No thoughts...
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Categories:
compression, love, pain, sad, social,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Times They Are a ChangingThe Twenty First Century will be like no other.
For millennia the human race experienced glacial progress forward.
Generation after generation pretty much the same.
Then slowly at...
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Categories:
compression, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Blaine MeI only be looking down now, looking inside myself now,
not head set in defeat but reflection, not the thoughts but the actual events that happened,...
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Categories:
compression, slam,
Form:
I do not know?
The Neighbor's WifeHe's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.
It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.
Yet our good news grows:
Depression...
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Categories:
compression, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny,
Form:
Political Verse
A Worldlike no other. Tiny blue speck in a void unfathomably large.
Self aware beings truly not aware of much.
Self impressed with no reason to be.
Obsessed...
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Categories:
compression, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
One Souper's Simple RhymeMany people have kindly said
my writings must be read.
Most can tell from the very start
that my renderings are directly from the heart.
They say I write...
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Categories:
compression, poems, thanks, writing,
Form:
Couplet
SuperchargedSo you wanna supercharger
Make your car so much faster
Four laws you need master
Will make it a hot rod blaster
Supercharged, supercharged
On your clock the air in...
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Categories:
compression, education,
Form:
Lyric
If Chronic Pain Were Olympic Sport'If chronic pain were Olympic sport'
Morning shocks me with a jolt
Night time flies like Usain Bolt
If dream of sleep were 'lympic pride
My pain within I'd...
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Categories:
compression, how i feel, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
compression, forgiveness, friendship, funny, happy,
Form:
Free verse