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Best Contesting Poems

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


Premium Member Cutting the Ties
Why wouldn’t you cut me loose from the strings that bind us 
You had left me dangling from a marriage that once united us together
The...

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Categories: contesting, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



No More Pain
No more tears, no more fears.
No more dieing, no more crying.
No more trying, no more failing.
No more dealing with or feeling,
No more pain!


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Categories: contesting, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Fragile Hold
Spring transforms snowdrifts into art
as frigid days begin to warm.
And water and ice meld, sculpting
Queen Anne's lace in crystalline form.

Clinging to snowy roofs and eaves,
icicles...

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Categories: contesting, daffodils, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Daily Show and Tell
Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I'm also not sure where we...

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Categories: contesting, family, health, humor, patriotic,
Form: Political Verse
A Field Day For Mother Goose
Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
   when off to see a crooked man and woman
whilst cowards jumped over moo ving little
...

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Categories: contesting, adventure, change, confusion, faith,
Form: I do not know?



Swimming Experience
How nice to swim in sea, river, lake and pond!
Floating body, pressing water, moving forward
How nice to enjoy spattering, splashing sound!
Gesturing body, flapping wing, clapping...

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Categories: contesting, memory,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Triple Helix From the Hip
"Triple Helix from the Hip"

Triple helix
stanzas 
strung together

like pearls 
wisdom worn 
and swallowed

like a pill
sweet and 
bitter

they evolve
those others
from their bad dreams

like poetry 

cradling their...

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Categories: contesting, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Cobham
Cobham,
Friends we are before the the aparty sets in
Our souls knitted and knotted  with dreams
Sharing whiskey and wits in the winds of life
Chattering doubts,...

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Categories: contesting, lost love,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Licking Life's Luscious Lips
"Licking Life’s Luscious Lips"



Life viewed 
ephemeral 

pulsating, stroking
many smooth angles 

there are no sharp 
golden lit angels found here

touting 
slippery sails

floating away 
to dreamland swinging...

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Categories: contesting, freedom, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Incarnate What We Digest
Eugenics is about monoculturing supremacist delusions 
of and for AnthroCentric Perfection.
Eumemics is about multiculturing nutritional inclusions
of and for Matriarchal-Iconic EarthTribe's nature-spirit Yintegration.

If we wish to...

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Categories: contesting, culture, destiny, health, life,
Form: Political Verse
Collaborating In the Clouds
I speak this aloud if I can be allowed
I break not one vow with my eyes to the clouds
A streak through the sky did fall...

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Categories: contesting, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Nations Leaders
Pick up the pieces, the remnants of
your folly, you few who shuffle the
decks of life. So few to guide ones
destiny, giving quality or lack of,
to...

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Categories: contesting, political,
Form: Free verse
Power of Love
I never taught true love really existed,
until the first day l set my eyes on you.
My heart stopped beating for a moment,
my attention suddenly turned...

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Categories: contesting, first love, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Memories of the White Republic
I remember my candles in the night
My eyes heavy but weightless like light
The thought of being a corper my right

A pound on my head boom...

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Categories: contesting, anxiety, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Great Escape
The Great Escape

Perched on a rooftop terrace in glorious sunshine he watches ahead
Floats on his sky looks inwards and ponders the magic path unravel
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Categories: contesting, faith, fate, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things