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Best Cut And Dry Poems

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


It Ain'T Cut and Dry
It’s black or white,

it’s wrong or right.

Look left, look right,

they both have a

valid answer. Who

am I to be the task

master? It ain’t cut

and dry, my...

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© Andy Craig  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dry, change, character, discrimination, identity,
Form: I do not know?



A Written Suicide
I am a writer. The odds are in your favor that I bet you may be a writer as well. It isn't that extremely bold...

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Categories: cut and dry, metaphor, suicide,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member God's Big List
When I was little I believed God
to be a chronicler of sorts.
Documenting each and every sin
in a big book, high up on the shelf.
Come Judgement...

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Categories: cut and dry, bible, childhood, faith, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What You Will See
I don't know what I want to write
But I will write about see if you call it
Do you believe you will see if you call...

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Categories: cut and dry, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Concerned Friend
It seems I'm in the minority here
When it comes to what I do to pass the time
It's not all that popular anymore
To express oneself with...

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Categories: cut and dry, passion, writing,
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 dry, funny
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Out of the Darkness
Between grains of ancient fine sand
desert roses hidden from sight—
Colourful, exquisitely fanned.
They formed in darkness; pressure shaped.
Each perfect corolla agape
in floral whorl of sharp crescents;
fluorescent...

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Categories: cut and dry, analogy, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Waitwaitedtickingtimeclock
I wash I cut i dry dry dry
i eat i sleep i wait i cry?
CRY.
clear minds cloud up the sky sky sky
all my questions ive...

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Categories: cut and dry,
Form: I do not know?
Faith Without Borders
I believe in God
and in His word
I believe if used
wisely it's an effective
tool for
 recalibrating
 humanity
However, it is not
cut and dry
nor black or white
to me...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dry, allah, god, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Clear-Cut Never
clear-cut 
it never was
always fell 
within a gray area
even now through 
out this estrangement
nothing is cut-and-dry 
wishy-washy indecision
fills the space between us 
fills the distance...

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Categories: cut and dry,
Form: Lyric
The List
My list used to be
Cut and dry
Whose on the left
Whose on the right
Straight down the middle
I draw my line
Should I keep the mark thick
Or make...

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Categories: cut and dry, peopleme,
Form: Rhyme
Wood Puppets
Hollywood could be their favorite kind of lumber
Puppets come from the pine forest cut and dry
In a mahogany box polished and refined
Labeled and shipped out...

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Categories: cut and dry, identity, judgement, relationship, tree,
Form: Free verse
Other Side
3/27/22


What's going on in the skies?
Sometimes
It all was just lies

People still trying to cut in the bus line
Attempting to sever all blood ties
Occurring behind the...

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Categories: cut and dry, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
this time of the year
This time of the year again

She has gone shopping for gifts to give the young
she would not take me along, knows I would be grumpy
and...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut and dry, birth, birthday, car, cat,
Form: Blitz

Book: Reflection on the Important Things