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Best Cutoff Poems

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


Premium Member Leap of Faith
As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice,...

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Categories: cutoff, family, growth, jobs, moving
Form: Narrative



Mother of Emptyness
Unfamiliar grounds  scare my emotions,

Hand which holds me safe no longer exist,

Each glance behind reveal vacant spaces

where are you Mom?


The emptiness I feel around...

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Categories: cutoff, girl, grief, life, mom,
Form: Blank verse
Off Season Santa
Off Season Santa

Cajun Santa won’t ever be seen

Buying Christmas candy in New Orleans

He has a whole group of Elves back in the swamp

Making Cajun candy...

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© Mack Toler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutoff, cheer up, christmas, easter,
Form: Rhyme
I Hate You
I hate you, trully hate you,
My bad breath smells of hate,
Hate for you,
I hate to see you walk,
Hate to see you talk,
Hate to see you...

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Categories: cutoff, abuse, anger, betrayal, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
The Grim Reaper
It was not the noise that woke them from their gentle sleep,
     but a foreboding that was now into their dreams...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutoff, angst, anxiety, fear, halloween,
Form: Couplet



Pretend Play
Pretend Play
 

As the day approaches an early dawn
I watch you playing out in the lawn
With your bulldozer you made a road
For the dump truck...

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Categories: cutoff, lifetime, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Head Lines
The traffic was strident, lanes straight
the cars lined the street and froze rigid.
The cop with a glare of pure hate, directed
a line of gate crashers...

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Categories: cutoff, art, introspection, on writing
Form: Sestina
Socialight
a day we went round in cycles until our senses cracked open
our eyes into the vangogh
greens birched our ears smacked by seabirds gulls
gobbing off perchpolluted...

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© Dort James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cutoff, nostalgia, day,
Form: Free verse
His Last Concert
I wasn't there to hear the choir
though once I sang with them,
but I still think of Holliday
at closing--cadence coming up
and his conducting stern, impassive
just as...

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Categories: cutoff, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Paraguard
Getting an IUD feels like…
A needle in a haystack.
Except your uterus is the haystack
And the needle, it’s really in there.

It’s not a single garment below...

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Categories: cutoff, angst, anxiety, birth, body,
Form: Free verse
W,World
Somewhat outstandingly
 millennial absurdism
 Is Seen’d slowly 
 Drownin’ towns;

 & townes’ there’ness,
 May’be
 Forever’ly mere’d,
—-

 hungry Frenetic wild dogs roam-
 ING;

 Thirst, unquenchable.

 &...

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Categories: cutoff, anger, angst, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Lovers Strike
Cutoff the strike!
   Cutoff the strike of love!
   Adam's sperm says cutoff the strike!
   Adam's sperm perpetually deems of...

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Categories: cutoff, romantic, sad love,
Form: Romanticism
Africa
I bare the child of this world yet I am tossed to rot away,
I've given you all that I can give and in return you...

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Categories: cutoff, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Leather Jacket (Finished)
I was doing great
Holdin' on
It's been 32 days
Since my best friend passed on

His son, who now lives with me
Walked through the door
Carrying a leather jacket
Out...

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Categories: cutoff, death,
Form: Rhyme
Satisfaction Or Addiction
My world with full of illusion, 
Feel me with a potable description, 
All is a result of excitement and reaction, 
It goes beyond limit of...

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Categories: cutoff, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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