Best Dismissal Poems
Below are the all-time best Dismissal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dismissal poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dismissal Where do you come from, vacant-eyed
hag, and where do you go from here?
Witching your way from border to bay,
who will your mumbling hear?
The babe in...
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Categories:
dismissal, allegory, depression, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
DESERVEDESERVE
Deserve- that in which we use to critique our life's ways
a way to hold back our existence
to project a negative
and cease the positive intake
Deserve...
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Categories:
dismissal, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Of Pan and ManOf PAN and MAN
Beyond the hedgerow bright with bloom of May
Our daily lives move on with purpose strong
From where the thrush and warbler sing...
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Categories:
dismissal, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Within Mysteries, The Dark and Decay Also HidesWithin Mysteries, The Dark and Decay Also Hides
(free verse)
On a stony pebble, feet cried out in pain,
why does, in our way, sharp pebbles forever lay
and...
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Categories:
dismissal, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Spring-tide - Memories On the Breeze
Oh ...
Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony...
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Categories:
dismissal, appreciation, life, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
ALAS, POOR LINDAALAS, POOR LINDA
Alas, poor Linda! I knew her as PD,
a poet of infinite interest,
of most excellent insight.
She has borne the brunt of conflict
a thousand...
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Categories:
dismissal, eulogy,
Form:
Verse
BEACHBEACH
These two lines behind me are not exactly straight
Nor am I, exactly straight. Curving, circling near
The land wash, softly humming, sun on my...
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Categories:
dismissal, abuse, dream, night, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Thank God, anywayWinter. Saturday morning it was.
I woke up, called me my boss
"You're so lazy, you can't work anymore!"
Do you know, how were in a big loss?!
Couldn't...
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Categories:
dismissal, abortion, anniversary, thank you,
Form:
Ballad
Two Tutus, TooTwo tutus, too
Laying on the ground
Ballet slippers strewn all around
One complete wall with mirrored glass
Chattering girls waiting dismissal of class.
A gaggle of Moms waiting patiently
Knitting...
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Categories:
dismissal, daughter, fatherlove,
Form:
Rhyme
Too Much Relief ManWhen stress about work started showing
He smoked some of what he was growing
Showed up at work
No pants or shirt
Not sure if he was coming or...
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Categories:
dismissal, conflict, imagery, leaving, parody,
Form:
Limerick
Captain IronheartCaptain: Permission to speak,
Although I may not even be able to squeak,
And you gaze upon me makes my knees weak,
It is only truth that I...
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Categories:
dismissal, change, confusion, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
blind sidesI’m in a psychology class and as part of it we filled out several, detailed, personality evaluations. They said these were helpful in forming a...
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Categories:
dismissal, psychological, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The SacrificeWe have brought this upon ourselves:
This virus, this egregore:
This cult of individuality.
Our right to die and bring others with us!
Truly an inversion of full potentiality:
Others...
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Categories:
dismissal, america, bible, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Within Mysteries, The Dark and Decay Also HidesNote: I am very pleased to have collaborated with Robert Lindley on several occasions in the past. Today, I have the pleasure of doing so...
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Categories:
dismissal, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
FeelingCan you recognize a new feeling when it comes?
Are we not always too quick to dismiss?
Perhaps too much anew emotions... runs
To only remember a once...
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Categories:
dismissal, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dreadful Dragonfly
An old man tries to find his wings.
Once he flew up near his puppet strings. A calm loving stare between his wondering eyes. Remembering that...
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Categories:
dismissal, christian, flying, god, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
May Life Bless YouMay life bless you with real freedom,
Keep enjoyment as your place,
May you find your own confidence,
From your education and your space;
May you...
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Categories:
dismissal, business, care, character, courage,
Form:
Quatrain
Family TherapyFeminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in permacultural eco-logic,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their camouflage.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate...
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Categories:
dismissal, addiction, endurance, environment, health,
Form:
Free verse
Beginning of the Downfall
I was a senior in high school and I still remember
That Friday afternoon in late November
Early dismissal after saying a prayer
Disbelief and sadness filling the...
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Categories:
dismissal, history, high school,
Form:
Rhyme
Caffeine High by Carolyn DevonshireCaffeine High
He works like a well-oiled machine
But only when filled with caffeine
No power within
The caffeine is just a smoke screen
He won’t even stop for cuisine
So...
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Categories:
dismissal, funny, poems,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Infinite Flight Seems I awakened within a dream flying, though staying within
the dream, as an eagle I soared. With wings of immense importance...
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Categories:
dismissal, faith, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Embrace The LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing...
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Categories:
dismissal, life,
Form:
Free verse
Grief Of Separation Part IHe had lost his father,
Lived in a home at the hill-top.
Always attentive in the school,
Never be late was his attitude.
Was very much disciplined and obedient,
Was...
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Categories:
dismissal, beautiful, death, deep, depression,
Form:
Narrative
My Friendship in a BoxShe used to be my best friend
Something I never thought could change
There for each other through everything
Life without her seems so strange
No favor too...
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Categories:
dismissal, loss, friendship, heart, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
My Woodland Of Togetherness
I love this woodland of togetherness, where the branches reach out, entwine
pull and lull me in. Where the sunlight bisects the canopy, falling in...
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Categories:
dismissal, nature
Form:
Prose Poetry