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Best Drastic Poems

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


A Mathematical Uncertainty
Can you count the times you’ve crossed me
And divide it by the times you disrespected me
Then multiply that by the times you hurt me
And come...

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Categories: drastic, confusion, love, me, me,
Form: Free verse



Would You
Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drastic, love, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'beach Buddies' Collect 'stuff' - For Contest
Twice a month on our tiny little Isle
A group of heroes go that extra mile
Wearing protective clothing they clean the beach
Removing vast amounts of rubbish...

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Categories: drastic, appreciation, beach, beauty, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resolutions
I've made a decision, a drastic solution
So I don’t have to make a New Year’s resolution

This year I’ve decided to become a nun…
My ‘habit’ will...

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Categories: drastic, celebration, humorous, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Sands of Time
Scorching hot sun..
Sun rays omitting intense heat
The flames of fireballs ignite..
Desert air ..
So dry and still..
A cactus thrives in desert paradise..

Sands of time..
Heat soars to...

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Categories: drastic, encouraging, endurance, nature, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mother Earth Is Dying
Pollution is found in our rivers and seas
Of raw chemical waste and plastic
Toxic pesticides are killing the bees.

Mother Earth is down on her knees
This man...

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Categories: drastic, earth, pollution, river, sea,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Sarcastic
I was told I was sarcastic
But I’m not made from plastic
So I’ll say it clear and loud
Of the sarcasm I am proud
I wouldn’t be so...

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Categories: drastic, work
Form: Couplet
You Have Touched Our Hearts Mr President
NOTE: In response to this Poem I have received a surprising pleasant letter from President Obama today 5th March 2015 itself. To see that please...

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Categories: drastic, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He's Got Verbal Diarrhoea
Mr Bombastic 
So sycophantic 
Spins discs of plastic
He’s so sarcastic -
Thinks he’s fantastic! 

He’s on a health kick
Eat prunes in aspic....
His guts turn spastic
Diarrhoea quite...

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Categories: drastic, humorous, integrity, music,
Form: Monorhyme
The Ballad of Ol' Joe'
*Come and listen to my tale about a man named Joe.
Who was Jesus Christ? Well, he didn't really know'
Then one day he read John, Chapter...

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Categories: drastic, faith
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paradigm Shift
For years and years
I lived the curse of all women

A woman’s work is never done
That is, never finished
The more work I did the more work...

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Categories: drastic, freedom, future, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Imagine Depression
As I, sit here and I stare up at the night sky,
The cool air rushes past, and it's a moonless night
I listen to leaves bristle...

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Categories: drastic, depression, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Eautoscopy
Last night I slipped into an introspective dream
witness of a strange extracorporeal experience
the whole me deconstructed to its raw materials
Dead myself was found a bright...

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Categories: drastic, deep, dream, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Troy
(Dedication: For Michael Zachary, my son)
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Sense this knowing: can the blind see?
Homer still sings fond tragedy.


Troy was a thought where siege was laid,
A war well...

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Categories: drastic, devotion,
Form: Couplet
The 1st Television Misogynist
He was small and portly but their leader
didn't want anyone in the club being a cheater
with everyones full attention while seated
he reiterated his drastic thoughts...

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Categories: drastic, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs