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Best Deferential Poems

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


Premium Member The Monster In the Machine
Mine is an existence binary and subsidiary.
My ode is to code.
I move only to algor-rhythms. 
I output from your input. 
I’m built to calculate, tabulate,...

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Categories: deferential, change, computer, future, science,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Toy Story
Bright and polite
kids. Deferential
squirrels. Leaders of
leaders. Each man
his own man
living with his mate.
The great and the small,
all, the state.
      ...

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Categories: deferential, freedom, identity, leadership, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Sparkled Memories
Resplendent in her deferential grace;

Her countenance now wears the strains of time.

I’m hungry to receive her soft embrace.



She fills me with her warmth  -...

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Categories: deferential, age, childhood, house, memory,
Form: Terza Rima
Asperger's --Work In Progress--
Contemplative, taciturn
Willing to commit
An immutable zeal to learn
Endowed with acerbic wit
Endless potential
But having few outlets, to express it
Seemingly aloof or deferential
Unintentionally causing pain
Coming off inconsequential
An...

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Categories: deferential, health, introspection, life
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Company of Fools
"No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
              ...

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Categories: deferential, angst, solitude,
Form: Free verse



Perennial Christmas
Like autumn leaves
the years had withered and blown away.
Her schoolgirl dreams had been set aside or
if appropriate wrapped in gay-patterned paper
and placed beneath the Christmas...

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Categories: deferential, lifechristmas, autumn, children, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Amazon Woman

Woman warrior invader
of my carefree, waking dreams
Smiting my heart with your charm arrows,
conquering my will so easily
You move stealthily with the grace of a leopard
in...

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Categories: deferential, identity, love, relationship, woman,
Form: Ode
Stung By Love
It was no longer a vague errand, 
She was determined to accost him 
She had overcome at last the dread 
Of having to face her...

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Categories: deferential, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Thank You Lord

For a perfect week, and hoping all poets, shared the same.
It was fun winning honorable mention in
the Musk poetry game.


The day before, was a POTD,...

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Categories: deferential, god, night, poets, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Like Liquid Alabaster
She, like dark
liquid alabaster
on a busy street
moves like music
deferential, sweet
She, like spring water
pushed dust before her
gatherers warm hair
on her marble shoulder

All who watch her, pass
stop,...

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Categories: deferential, beauty, candy,
Form: I do not know?
No Credentials
The prophets of God
need no credentials
to prove to someone
that God spoke to them

When their words come to pass,
that is proof positive enough
When their prophetic song...

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Categories: deferential, christian, judgement, religious, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Angel's Song
Night may decry its emptiness
within the hours of darkest expectation
when the hope of dawning
is remote.

My messenger is shy, for she appears
above/below my consciousness
though there are...

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Categories: deferential, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Tempt Me Not
Deferential, I
Eternity await
Submit to your  grace
In my patient state.

 

None but God can judge;
None have his pure gaze.
Write me not your wish.
Tempt me not...

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Categories: deferential, courage, creation, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sensory Revolutions
It is a longterm scientific revolution:

THAT, despite visual perceptions
to the contrary,
Earth revolves around our light
and heat SunSource,

And not the other way,
Sun daily rounding Earth,
abounds all...

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Categories: deferential, earth, environment, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Immersed In Secret Schemes of Quirk
I might not be accurate, precise, exact, and truthful,
And cannot speak to you in a voice more amplified 
than what you hear now,
To the rational...

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Categories: deferential, words,
Form: Free verse

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