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Best Contortion Poems

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


Premium Member Autumn
Autumn unreeled
Forests shaken hollow
               settling
      ...

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Categories: contortion, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Free verse



The Painful Facts
The Painful Facts
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain...

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Categories: contortion, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit of Chantel Noel
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her...

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Categories: contortion, caregiving, daughter, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mind-Body Consciousness
I AM as I AM, free & formless in a domain timeless
In, as & one with & within the sea of Oneness
Dissolved and yet in...

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Categories: contortion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Diversify and Conquer
'Liberal,' merely a sentiment
    'University,' no longer a word

  'Zionist,' perverse contortion
    'White privilege,' racist extortion...

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Categories: contortion, confusion, irony, words,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Sunday Morning Programme
Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer...

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Categories: contortion, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Imagism
The Clown
Hurrah! Hurrah! Three cheers for the clown!
A sing-song incantation of both old and young
His witty arsenal and outrageous antics
Kept them screaming in fits of hysterics
Why...

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Categories: contortion, funny,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Apostrophe In Time
water weeps wildly
whilst washing away your
jesting foolery.
I saw the sun annihilated
	Against backdrops of liturgy
Lethargic activity that earns
	It’s title as the Earth’s endearing child
Against backdrops of...

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© W. Hunt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contortion, sympathy, universe,
Form: Free verse
Frosted Flakes
He can't stop rhyming.
His mind races in cadence and timing.
Writing muses from within,
In both darkness and light, they begin.

Put to paper, in one pen stroke,
No...

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Categories: contortion, art, funny, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Night
A Hallows Eve of trick or treating, elaborate costumes, candy eating,
       Lantern’s dimming upon nightfall, locked doors marks next...

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Categories: contortion, death, evil, fear, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Receipt
Can't decide if there's anything ever  worth sayin'
Done a lot in 23 years but feel like I've done nothin'
Opportunity cost, I hear the clock...

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Categories: contortion, change, community, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Time
Four dimensions, yet three in one, 
Location, space and time,
X Y location, space around, and in time, 
We don’t consider an X as without a...

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Categories: contortion, age, childhood, education, planet,
Form: Free verse
The Deceivers Play
The deceivers play with the receivers
The fakers are all the takers
The greedy abuse on the needy
The sheep are prey for the wolves to keep

Abortion a...

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Categories: contortion, abuse, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
The Painful Facts
nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her torment...

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Categories: contortion, family, life, love, god,
Form: Couplet
One More Time
I will make a collage of my college days
Just like I did with my High School days...at least in my mind every May as long...

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Categories: contortion, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs