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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 Alive
Wrinkles 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 Springs
Robert 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
Premium Member Nagacourt, Nepal 2003
The 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
Premium Member Take My Breath Away
Sirens 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
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compression, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



En Passant
between 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 Forever
Thee, 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 Changing
The 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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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compression, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blaine Me
I 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?
Premium Member The Neighbor's Wife
He'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 World
like 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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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compression, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member One Souper's Simple Rhyme
Many 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
Supercharged
So 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
Smile Anyway
It is better to love and lost Well, you have heard the saying            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compression, forgiveness, friendship, funny, happy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things