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Best Curt Poems

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

Be Free, My Brothers

Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: curt, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme

In Search of 50 Names -Edited For Judge

In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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Categories: curt, words, , cute,
Form: Couplet

Resolve Problems Through Compromise

Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
But I have no desire to do others harm.
        ...

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Categories: curt, conflict, fate, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Tongue Study

Tongue Study

Tongues
Steady it wags
needing to know
more, about the
the very thing that
causes wars.
peace and pain.
I study my tongue.        ...

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Categories: curt, analogy, introspection, judgement,
Form: Ballad

Defuse and Compromise

Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
          I have no desire to do others...

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Categories: curt, conflict, fate, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme

Odyssey

"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What...

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Categories: curt, adventure, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme

Desperate Hope

Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed...

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Categories: curt, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse

My Pretty Polly

Made is she of the finest porcelain, that daddy's
Money can buy, with soft raven tresses, and blue
Hued shining eyes.
My pretty Polly baby doll, has a...

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Categories: curt, childhood, evil, halloween, holiday,
Form: Free verse

I Am

***
I AM

I am one breathtaking moment
I am one who is lost or alone
I am one raindrop, or one flowering rose
I am warm as the sun,...

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Categories: curt, heart, introspection, journey,
Form: Free verse

Bullysoup

whopping bully
torments soupers fully
picks on others writes
although her writing bites

great big bully
eyes must be woolly
she attempts hurt
with words curt

Diana-Marie Bombardieri
January 29, 2012
Contest - Clerihew 2

“poetry...

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Categories: curt, funny, on writing and
Form: Clerihew

Muppets In the Soup - Join In

Write a limerick of your own about a Muppet. 
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me, 
and I find...

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Categories: curt, fun,
Form: Limerick

The Cracked Glass Ball

Some things I thought would never change - 
it would always be "us three",
I try so hard to understand 
why that wasn't meant to be.
The...

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Categories: curt, best friend, betrayal, friendship,
Form: Couplet

Beach

BEACH

These two lines behind me are not exactly straight
 Nor am I, exactly straight. Curving, circling near
 The land wash, softly humming, sun on my...

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Categories: curt, abuse, dream, night, pain,
Form: Free verse

The Power of Language

Have you ever given thought on how language  impacts you,  
good or bad it all depends on the words you ruminate & chew...

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Categories: curt, analogy,
Form: Quatrain

I Have a Dream

Sing me the song of the seventh moon
That orbits the planet of Tralaloon.
Where plants and animals might be the same,
The only way to tell is...

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Categories: curt, funny, planet,
Form: Light Verse