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Best Decent Poems

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


Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: decent, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dancing With Mom
When I was just a wee one
          my mom taught me to dance
   ...

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Categories: decent, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decent, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Music Of Heart In Verse Softly Whirred
What seems now old 
Used to be utterly new
What was previously told 
We cease to over chew
*****
All that is old hold a treasure 
If only...

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Categories: decent, deep, destiny, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member During Sex I'M Often Naked
You can't make someone love you all you can do 
is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.

No matter how much...

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Categories: decent, philosophy,
Form: Didactic



I Can'T Breathe
I can’t breathe

still in my shackles
no chance to escape my isolation
cries of anguish emancipated
from an awareness that is unfree
the stain is but human made
a long...

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Categories: decent, emotions, faith, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LIFE IS NOT A BATTLE FIELD
Be strong in your beliefs and opinions 
Give and receive them respectfully 
Discuss , debate, disagree , 
Devoid of anger and intimidation 
Be polite and...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decent, anti bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manchester Attack
Yet another incident has happened today
When will these terrorists go away
Manchester this time at a concert
Some taken to early some really hurt

Thier war now affecting...

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Categories: decent, child, conflict, together, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: decent, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
My Lord, Just One Day With You
My Lord, Just One Day With You.....

My Lord, just one day with you will bring my life
back from all the sins that I have done...

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Categories: decent, faith,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Am the Grinch
I am the Grinch

I am I am, you know that I am
The Grinch of Grinch's and so
Don’t call me Sam
For Sam I not am
I am...

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Categories: decent, children, christmas, life, love,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Friendship's Omission
As I
Soak in hummingbird’s exhale
I feel tragic sonatas
Trying to chain
Trying to crucify
My sedentary grip on instability

I smell the repugnant commoner
Blasting scattered shots
Against yesterday’s decent

I became...

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Categories: decent, forgiveness, friendship, leaving, life,
Form: Free verse
Smile At a Muslim
These are just a few words about reality,
as Muslims struggle each day with individuality.

What is a Muslim and from whence does he come?
Like you and...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decent, anti bullying, christian, discrimination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Our Courtship
He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full...

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Categories: decent, lovetime, me, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Wind That Blows Loneliness
The wind blows softly over the lonely,
The suffering think of themselves only.
A world of chaos, racism, and turmoil,
Utmost egomanias spoil our toil.

An old man groans,...

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Categories: decent, pain, poverty,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things