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Best Cut Off Poems

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


Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: cut off, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Choice
A vulture and owl
                     ...

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Categories: cut off, addiction,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Chimera
Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats...

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Categories: cut off, animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Doomed To Feel That Bite and Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...

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Categories: cut off, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
One Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal

One “Headless...

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Categories: cut off, childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Priorities Viewed By a Dying Man
Death be not proud but humble with strife
Old man flicks ashes, has one last choke
‘Tis nothing to fear, just the nature of life
 
Many passed...

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Categories: cut off, death, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Where the Woods Open
There's a path I always take
down to the river where the woods
are dressed down open
The light of the sky
doesn't shine in your eyes
but leads the...

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Categories: cut off, autumn, imagery, inspirational, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Well of Souls
How many souls live on the edge,
Between the gutter and the ledge?

A hopeless fear crawls in their gut,
Each day, another endless rut.

The moments pass profoundly...

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© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut off, culture, discrimination, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Get the Feeling
When you pack my luggage but won't pack my lunch
When you lock me out I get a hunch
When you put thumb tacks on the bathroom...

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Categories: cut off, funny, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: cut off, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
My Mind a Ship In Darkness
My mind a ship in darkness                   ...

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Categories: cut off, adventure, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Save the Queen
It’s Jubilee tea at my auntie’s care home
Aunt Phyllis’s hair could do with a comb
But she doesn’t mind and puts on her hat
The queen won’t...

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Categories: cut off, celebration, england, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts of a Very Old Apartment
Winter is approaching.
 I feel it in my floorboards; in my baseboards;
in every nook and cranny.
I wait to be filled again at this time of...

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Categories: cut off, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member March Mirth
SEBASTIAN BECK 

The trapeze artist Sebastian Beck
His safety harness he forgot to check 
Didn't notice it had snapped 
Below all the crowd clapped 
But in...

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Categories: cut off, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut off, death, humorous,
Form: Monoku

Book: Shattered Sighs