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Best Costed Poems

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


Premium Member Delicious Food I Ate During My Travels
If you judge food with the quantity put before you
Then my first choice will be the Victoria Hotel*.
On Sunday lunch, food is too plentiful, makes...

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Categories: costed, food, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Does Not Need a Title
My mind is always running like an overflowing faucet
Like a never ending bouncing ball that someone took and tossed it
Paid for with attention that I...

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Categories: costed, introspection, beautiful, lost, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where I Was In the Seventies
I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costed, first love,
Form: Couplet
This One Is For You
From time to time I find myself staring into the heavens lit by our stars
The elders spoke of each star having its name, and how...

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Categories: costed, familyme, star, love, may,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quadruple Limerick-The Australian Dingo
I raised an Australian dingo,
no name came to mind but Ringo;
he jumped on me,
ripped my clothes daily...
it costed me plenty of money!

Only once I left...

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Categories: costed, depression, friendship, funny, love,
Form: Limerick



Liberation
LIBERATION
I am still in chains
Slavery, colonialize and apartheid 
Are words you do not want to associate yourself with..
I know you have been emotionally stimulated that...

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Categories: costed, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Silent Tears Always Speak
Somewhere that you can be, 
but I can't be
Living with lies, but I know you 
still care
Same thing that you can do, but 
I can't...

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Categories: costed, fantasy
Form: Ode
I Got It
8/30/16


Plotted
Lines connected no longer dotted

I got it 
Took so much more than logic
And being honest
Hard work, pain, sweat, blood and tears is what it costed

From...

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Categories: costed, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Should'Ve Would'Ve Could'Ve
Reality strikes
Almost in a dreamlike state
Slow motion
However sudden
Indifferent to any other
Dreams turned to nightmare  
instantly 

I feel so worthless 
For some time now
A whore
A ****
Good...

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Categories: costed, break up,
Form: ABC
A Dance With the Devil
I dance with the Devil while the choir sing gospels.
The heavenly bliss of Hell holds me mentally hostage. 
I payed too much attention to the...

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Categories: costed, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Grow Up
Going around in shorts is considerable crime,
Oh now you can't even play with slime,
It's outrageous to talk about PeePee in public,
Do you remember now when...

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Categories: costed, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
For Bob Dylan
Ramblin' Bob Dylan Blues
(For Bob Dylan)



Why does the sun dry up so many scattered tears

slipping down the coarse cheek of a million hushed fears

where no...

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Categories: costed, angst, confusion, dedication, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Life, the Potter
A piece of clay spinning around,
Molded by hands of fire and ice,
Shaped into form; tied and bound
By experiences through this vice.

Round and round upon a...

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Categories: costed, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Letter From Feotus To Mama
Don't ask me how I got here
But I know it was a struggle 
You never knew you were pregnant with tomorrow
I ate what you ate
I...

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Categories: costed, baby, children, mom, mother,
Form: Prose Poetry
Withdrawn For Good From Rat Race
Soul, slow down your flight
A kindred soul dare to delight
In  your tryst when you hold her tight
 
Savouring every breath, every moment
Shunting aside pain...

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Categories: costed, poems,
Form: Free verse

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