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Best Counters Poems

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


Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: counters, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

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Categories: counters, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bandit of My Heart
Oh, Bandit, what's your impish task
While sporting, sly, that little mask?

You seem quite innocent and frail
Yet the kitchen tells a different tale

Floor all messy, the...

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Categories: counters, animal, light, love, pets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fun Observations On Poetry


Like hard, dry toast, with no aroma,
Poetry minus heart and soul, puts me in 
an endless coma!


My brain short circuits, the longer the poem!
I get...

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Categories: counters, humor, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Endless War
(not to take too seriously; I think I am immune 
to my "enemies" by now!)

How near to us are foes we can’t resist
when cells, like...

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Categories: counters, satire
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member Her Name Is Jan
Rick Springfield's Jesse's Girl was playing on the radio,
we were all partying guys and girls out on my patio.
I prayed no one or you would...

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Categories: counters, marriage, memory, missing, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prickly Heat
The gifted house and the ghost of his Grandmother trapped him. Her presence clung with the leftover nicotine to the walls of every room. A...

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Categories: counters, lost love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: counters, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already  have everything,...

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Categories: counters, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
A Moral Dilemma
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his...

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Categories: counters, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Assembly Programming Test
I whizzed past the assembler, add
count in octal, subtract 
hexadecimal. Found error 
in the dump file, all zeroes
and wondered, is this an omen?

Surprise! write me...

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Categories: counters, computer, memory, school, success,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adventures In Neverland
The reasoning has befallen, on a rock she now prays
Dark cobalt blue tides, like counters, our end of days
Wildlife in sporadic, escaping to not
Whilst a...

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Categories: counters, fantasy, music,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty Four Hours
11/17/16



He did not hit no home run, it was a grounder

How many cabinets or counters

Have some sort of white powder

Many meals cooked with flour

Familiar with...

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Categories: counters, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Where the Unloved Go
Where the Unloved Go

On a Sunday afternoon, with skies so blue,
Sweet smell of flowers in the air, what do you do?
Your youth is behind you,...

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Categories: counters, absence, change, family, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seen Through a Half Glass
Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
and see...

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Categories: counters, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things