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Best Cumulative Poems

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


Premium Member Raspberry Kisses
Raspberry Kisses


Silent kisses throughout the air.
Just like the wild raspberry affair. 


Nowhere to know how,
Can they be found!
Now they are here,
Only to me you appear,...

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Categories: cumulative, passion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Odyssey of a Soul
What are you thinking of 
germinal seed of dynamic animation 
do you still understand all without explanation..?

the colors you dream in are the nuances of...

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Categories: cumulative, journey, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Remember the Season
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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cumulative, age, seasons,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Desert Paint
The two-lane road stretches
through a shimmering glaze
to the horizon, passing
smokestacks of mesas spewing
clay and maize in vaporous mass.

I hear the sibylline whisper of rain 
through...

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Categories: cumulative, color, imagery, rain,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Bright Eyes Potd
I so adored late hours. I was what you would call a night owl,
As fireflies seldom appear, until creamy moon is on the prowl.

I loved...

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Categories: cumulative, fantasy, imagery, nature, night,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Shadows Dancing In a Moonless Night
Is our love a dance macabre? 
A dilly dallying with death? 
Or a mystic encounter of unabated love? 
Will it last?  Will it end?...

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Categories: cumulative, dance, dark,
Form: Free verse
Definitions
Joy and pain…
Sun and rain…
Love and disdain-
Opposites existing simultaneously
To its own detriment.
One cancelling out the other…
Parasitic and unevenly yoked.

Through thick cumulative clouds
I was the sun…
The...

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© Keith Lea  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cumulative, life
Form: Free verse
Tingling Scalp
Cold shower today - (early afternoon)
September eighth two thousand
and nineteen more challenging than June
dog days of summer test tolerance
to feel alive and bark at the...

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Categories: cumulative, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Multilayered - the Cause Is Civil Rights
MULTILAYERED: THE CAUSE IS CIVIL RIGHTS!

How time has changed.
I am a colored woman by DNA living in a country of diversity.
I can remember my first...

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Categories: cumulative, america, change, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Healthy Politics, and Sex, and Religion
I hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a trans-biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more...

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Categories: cumulative, health, humor, philosophy, political,
Form: Political Verse
Government Sales Tax Gst
Government Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly  introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has...

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Categories: cumulative, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Word So
There's a point blank 
Just south of Soulsville
where common pit desires exude 
extreme ego ratios rotating on human gutlike
socioshadow experientials. Slow slug immuno
pain gestures cloud...

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Categories: cumulative, anger, angst, class, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped...

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Categories: cumulative, analogy, image, imagery, love,
Form: Sonnet
Save Malaysia Today
Save Malaysia Today

S - Some time ago, there was a sovereign fund named 1MDB...
A - All too soon, there were mounting allegations of suspicious activities...
V...

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Categories: cumulative, appreciation, community, confusion, dedication,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member It Isnt a Part of My Regrets
I regret the movies
they gave you reasons to add a twist in life
believing existence without adrenaline is not living at all
and wild adventures are the...

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Categories: cumulative, boyfriend, break up, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs