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Best Cut And Dried Poems

Below are the all-time best Cut And Dried poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cut and dried poems written by PoetrySoup members


Coming Out of the Shadows
Somewhere in youth I strayed from truth.
And grew up to not have much couth.
The door bell rang the onus chime.
Snuck out the back to bide...

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Categories: cut and dried, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Astigmatism
The curvature of the eye, 
marred by irregularity, distorts.

Rain falling through the aqueous orb
of eye or earth prisms, 
propelling points of light skyward, 
producing rainbows.

Sunlight...

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Categories: cut and dried, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aphorisms- Idiomatic Expressions
*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dried, satire,
Form: Lyric
A Gray Matter - Quite
Wrong...Right...
Black and White...
Do imps 'n'angels fight
in light of day...dark of night?
The evil to hell...the rest - heaven's delight...
is all cut and dried or are there...

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Categories: cut and dried, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tips For Modern Poets
Dear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry!  Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want...

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Categories: cut and dried, write,
Form: Prose



~receding Space Between Thought and Action~
Reclining within spring's bouquet
she thought,” Please stay, don't rush away,
I so enjoy, these blooms of May."

This maiden who boldly proclaimed
wished only for sweet azure sky
upon...

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Categories: cut and dried, naturedance, change, dance,
Form: I do not know?
Absurdity
Is it a new phenomenon,
Known to the world
Through Beckett and Camus?
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Oedipus, Bhartrhari, Buddha—all,
Over a period of intense suffering,
Learnt to...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dried, analogy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A, B, C--Or All of the Above
(A) Optimist (B) Pessimist, or (C) Realist 

These labels that get tossed about are far too cut-and-dried,
and when we fail to act in keeping with...

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Categories: cut and dried, emotions, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
When All Is Said and Done
When all is said and done - my son
When all is done and said
There's nothing more to be done - my son
And nothing more to...

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Categories: cut and dried, funny
Form: Light Verse
Ways To Say I Love You
When it comes to being  romantic
The French have it cut and dried
When they whisper je t'aime
You feel so good  inside
 
The italians  are no  slouch
When its...

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Categories: cut and dried, love, words, love, i
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The News
The news is..! Britain is  favorite for the euro vision
Showcase.'
That will show it just what it's missing..' 
LOL)) Ukraine is I Apparently going to...

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Categories: cut and dried, allusion, analogy, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Dec 2020
"Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dried, cat, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Monoku
Bittersweet
Bittersweet
A misnomer
Like salty chocolate
Or
White the new Black.

Face value
Only
Cut or dried
Perceives.

A severed-meat
Kiln
Hanging
Dry and tasteless
More
Soot on the tongue
Less
Beauty in spaces....

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Categories: cut and dried, abuse, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Locked Within
Sound of sea is locked within seashell beached
Just lift a shell to your ear to hear sea sigh.

Morn is locked within dawns red sky horizon
Like...

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Categories: cut and dried, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Judge
The Judge

Accused and accuser, a battle for life,
Abused and abuser, a husband and wife,
Thieves and robbers, the unjust takers,
Pushers, druggies, and even drug makers,

Quickly I...

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Categories: cut and dried, america, corruption, integrity, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs