Best Dictates Poems
Below are the all-time best Dictates poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dictates poems written by PoetrySoup members
MicroshotWhen looking for a quack with spiked rates
Some try the Windowed Office of Bill Gates
Coz right on the spot
He’ll give you a shot
But be prepared...
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Categories:
dictates, angst, corruption,
Form:
Limerick
God Is LoveLove is an authority.
It dictates choice and consequence
and joins together all the wayward lamenters
who grieve at their loss of purity.
Love is an actuality.
It breathes new...
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Categories:
dictates, lost love, lovelove,
Form:
Free verse
O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask of TheeO' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask Of Thee
O'
shadow,
pray tell more
before midnight clock scores
and in its echoes lays to waste
souls yearning for life's...
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Categories:
dictates, appreciation, art, creation, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
Pay No Attention To the Man Behind the CurtainBlissfully ignorant and supine,
Lost in the economy line,
voters don’t have a clue
that liberty is through.
Apathy dictates all else is fine.
People keep telling me how foolish...
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Categories:
dictates, political, people, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Flat Packed KitchensI decided to turn around this morning,
stop spooning away the day
Forget about mother nature,
look much deeper into the grey
I could see late night...
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Categories:
dictates, confusion, god, how i
Form:
Rhyme
The Twelve Angels of BeirutThe Twelve Angels of Beirut
They huddle together in the heavens
Muttering amongst themselves
Confused as any human down below
We bestow upon them the ancient teachings
Not once, not...
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Categories:
dictates, allah, angel, anger, angst,
Form:
Light Verse
My Robot BennyMY ROBOT BENNY
I have a robot at home, his name is Benny,
Who is also, extremely office friendly.
He wakes me up every morning,
As a new day...
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Categories:
dictates, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Death WatchesA vision through the haze of time and rhyme
a mirrored beauty, Helen sits and waits.
I see her through the window for it's late,
at dawn, I'll...
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Categories:
dictates, fear,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
My Aminus BrainI am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.
I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.
My seductive charms can...
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Categories:
dictates, character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Brainstorma diabolical grace ...
dark, deep, warm-black arms of
an endless night wrap me ...
head thrown back in abdication -
arms spread wide in surrender,
falling backward, back, back,...
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Categories:
dictates, abuse, addiction, analogy, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Barbed WireBarbed wire seems a 'thorny' subject on which to opine,
But there arose a need for such for people and beasts to confine!
Cowpokes cussed as they...
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Categories:
dictates, history
Form:
Rhyme
In Awe of the WindYou whine and whistle, ghostlike, when you round
the corner of my cottage in the cove.
You sweetly soothe or taunt and terrify.
No one on Earth dictates...
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Categories:
dictates, nature, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Sins of the Mindthorns are helpless - premature petals wither in scents of petrichor
greed dictates logic - nature suffers in silence - climate confusion
Silent One
28 December 2019
This...
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Categories:
dictates, nature, perspective,
Form:
Haiku
Valentine VillanelleBlow me a kiss from across the great way
Desire for that kiss to reach soft lips that wait
Let your masculine hands lovingly stay
Cling to your...
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Categories:
dictates, longing,
Form:
Villanelle
My GalleryMy Gallery
In upper part of my body
A cognitive bell rings
From a dial-up connection
of live wires
The modem is working just
To repeatedly provide
the facsimile of
Barren and bald...
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Categories:
dictates, 12th grade, body, conflict,
Form:
Blank verse