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


Premium Member Pretty Poet
Where Have All The Pretty Poets Gone? 

A real poet are you, charismatic over everything you serve
Showcasing, a rainbow that folds the perfect worldwide perspective
I'm...

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Categories: dictionary, angel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Be Thrown Overboard Soon
Two scruffy pirates picked me up.
Intending to toss me overboard.
I weighed too much; they were struggling.
True.
They needed to lighten their load.
But I was not going...

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Categories: dictionary, fun, humorous, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Butterfly Landings
Butterfly Landings 



It’s a precarious perch
High by a skydive
In such a leap of faith
A leap of love
Circumnavigates these boots of Earth
Fellow to the stratospheres
These butterfly...

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Categories: dictionary, lost love, lovebutterfly, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Holds More Resplendent Gifts of the Great and Vast Beyond
What Holds More Resplendent Gifts Of The Great And Vast Beyond

Seas of poetry orations, I once took my swims
being strong in spirit, stouter in heart...

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Categories: dictionary, art, creation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Goddess I Am Your Missionary
Tell me how may I show you devotion?
No words are left in this dictionary.
Which fool said love is just an emotion?
My Goddess, I am your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dictionary, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Dear Budding Poet
Dear Budding Poet,

Modern poetry is a mix of new and old with modern styles created by bending or even breaking the rules of old forms...

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Categories: dictionary, encouraging, poetry,
Form: Prose
The Word
In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: dictionary, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme
Write !
Write !


Some madness banter of insanity
is pulling at my thoughts
spilling effulgent
in giant verbs and huge marching nouns
collecting snippets as it walks
stomping on flowers
and mushing liquid...

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Categories: dictionary, on writing and wordsme,
Form: Free verse
Ludic
English is not a language 
one can ever get ahead of--
there are just too many words! 
Like 'ludic; for example: meaning
playful, in the sense of...

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Categories: dictionary, humorous, language,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scoundrel's Game
A yearning for affection and romance
can cause one’s getting scorched by passions’ flame.
Love blooms if it is given a fair chance,
but some attempt to play...

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Categories: dictionary, passion, love,
Form: Sonnet
Just Fingertips Apart
Each step I take along the way is more than I can endure
and every curve in the lonesome road becomes a detour
back to you because...

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Categories: dictionary, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Poets
Poets
Why is it poetry, is a like dirty word and talked of in undertones?
It’s like a naughty postcard, more flesh than there are bones.
Poets tend...

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Categories: dictionary, confusion, funny, art, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Could It Be
As I stared into the starless night,
the blinding lights of the city blotting out the beauty of a
cloudless sky fading away into day
I wonder what...

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Categories: dictionary, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mistakes Are Lessons
"A person who never made a mistake; 
never tried anything new."  Albert Einstein

__________________

This poet girl,
wrote in crayon, then gave pens a whirl;
I made mistakes-...

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Categories: dictionary, life, power, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep...

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Categories: dictionary, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things