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Best Doled Out Poems

Below are the all-time best Doled Out poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of doled out poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty I know can dwell
within a body worn and frail.
I think of one who had been doled
great miseries, so once grown old,
his body seemed...

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Categories: doled out, hero,
Form: Rondeau



Premium Member Who Silence the Silent One
On a reminiscing of a poet I thought I would make a call
 
But on searching for this name sake I was left appalled

The name...

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Categories: doled out, absence, abuse, bullying, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Story
It was on a Christmas Eve
early in the morn
into a world so often cold
a little girl was born.
Her parents, they did love her,
the way that...

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Categories: doled out, confusion, introspection, life, sadfor
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Twenty Pints of Sunshine
Twenty Pints of Sunshine
David J Walker

It seemed to be the only thing 
In abundance on the farm
The light and heat
	The shine so bright
Long days 
short...

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Categories: doled out, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kresge's Five and Dime Stores
I was reminiscin' the other day about times that were more sublime,
And got to thinkin' about those old stores called Kresge's Five and Dime.
I recall...

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Categories: doled out, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rainbow On Other Side of Sky
Those who saw prairies bloom
Remember well the dams he built
Filling their abundant reservoirs
Growing harvests they cherished
Being the only bridge they had
Standing over turbulent streams.

When the...

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Categories: doled out, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembering Rwanda
Before the blast in April's darkened sky. . .  
before the electrifying surge of insurgency -
when trucks and tanks were used to block the...

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Categories: doled out, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life 2022
Life, a fleeting dream, warbling on meadows: 
A season of spring and season of snows;
Sometimes in sunshine, sometimes in shadows,
Joy of autumns and woes of...

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Categories: doled out, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Observation of a Ps Longtimer
Peace and war
Often lived here over the years
Even though initiated by the few
Tears were created between many
Relaxation and growth was the PS purpose
Yet they in...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doled out, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Scion of Wisdom
A sage with wisdom so erudite
Muse filtering hope, shedding light
Mentor whose keen insight doth shape, mold
Dr Ram's words are better than gold

Twining cultures with his...

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Categories: doled out, dedicationwords,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Alice Assaulted An Antelope
Amazingly, Alice assaulted an antelope
Because Bobby’s beavers became bold,
Considering cantilevered canines
Deliberately devastating donor’s doled.

Evelyn entirely excited electric eels
Failing forlornly from forward fencing,
Gaining ground gathering genuine...

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Categories: doled out, fantasy, fun, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Foghorn
I was an inscrutable, capricious mystery writer, like a pure mystery of days;
And I had composed best selling novels, like westering sun's scarlet phase.

An unparalleled...

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Categories: doled out, fantasy, god, lost, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Cinis Ad Cinerem, Pulvis Ad Pulverem
Do the ashes rest on the frigid ground so cold?
As they are seeing the next steps of infinity,
Ask that question of yours to the reaper,...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doled out, death, introspection
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Decisions
Recall the straight and well-planned path of youth
mapped out so clear to lead us through life’s maze?
Though times I wandered off in prankish craze,
the road...

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Categories: doled out, growing up, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member What We Gave
It was the year of Nineteen Forty One
when I was a young, new bride,
there was a sneak attack upon our ships
and so many good men...

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Categories: doled out, giving, war,
Form: Rhyme

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