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Best Dozen Poems

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


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: dozen, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: dozen, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Wild Rose
This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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Categories: dozen, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: dozen, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: dozen, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Long Distance Dreamer
Call me evil
Call me names
Call me 

Kiss me on the lips
Kiss my heart
Kiss me

Wrap me in your arms
Hold me within your breasts
Whisper your longings

Touch me...

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Categories: dozen, beautiful, i miss you,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: dozen, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Time For Heroes
The child stands valorous before the door
    With nary a tinge of fear or dread.
Armed with a spatula and a pancake flipper...
...

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Categories: dozen, appreciation, inspiration, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among...

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Categories: dozen, humorous, native american, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pocketful of Hardened Suns
When I think of what to write
often the ocean comes to mind
Endless sea of pretty blue
and stretched out horizon lines,
impossibly flat

Yet when I actually arrive
it...

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Categories: dozen, appreciation, beach, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May May Be
May May Be
By Franklin Price
4/25/2015

May may be the nicest month
Of all the dozen best
You may ask why would I say this
Let us put it to...

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Categories: dozen, may, cinco de mayo,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Apple Pickin' Time
Come an' pick yerself an apple,

Come an' pick a heapin' load;

Come an' pick a bloomin' bushel

An' a couple fer the road.


There's a dozen different sizes,

Pink...

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Categories: dozen, autumn, october, people, red,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Andrea the Poetess
Three dozen Roses, Red ,Yellow and White
To show my affection for POETIC insight
Her Quilled POETRY : Inspirations; ignite
The Pen in my hand as I write...

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Categories: dozen, dedication, flower, inspirational, thank
Form: Sonnet
The Puppet
Slowly the curtains parted a head peeps out
Dressed as a small child so lifelike

Can see the strings working the arms
In a disjointed fashion
But the eyes.....
the...

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Categories: dozen, imagination, drug,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Mushroom Cloud
Fires at a blue pills lab threw up a cloud
Settling over the town like a great shroud
And this gigantic mushroom 
Created a baby boom
Because all...

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Categories: dozen, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs