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Best Drip Poems

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


Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: drip, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: drip, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Wind
I am the wind

You cannot see me but you can feel me

Breezing gently through your hair

Brushing slightly across your cheek

Whispering softly 'neath your ear

I am...

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Categories: drip, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covetous
Is it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence

To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse

In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...

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Categories: drip, jealousy, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member First Rose of May
How beautiful is what I see today
          peeking from the green
     ...

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Categories: drip, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The World As Seen Through a Poet's Pen
A bright array of rainbow hues
      adorns the parchment now and then,
   and gives a glimpse of writer’s...

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Categories: drip, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bleeding Love
Introducing: Jan Allison & Poet Destroyer

Pierced by shards of shattered glass 
Deeper and deeper you stab me 
With lies and venomous words 
Dissecting my heart...

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Categories: drip, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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Categories: drip, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
Rainbow Promise
He has announced his arrival. She waits,
Listening to the thunder cracking through
the layers of air. Looking at the lightning,
brightening and frightening the darkness away,
Lapping up...

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Categories: drip, earth, rain,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Of Me
Deeply dipped in red, the Heart of a Rose
explaining the motive behind this act
Purpose being, to open and expose
knowing not how, the Soul will truly...

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Categories: drip, simple, words,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where My True Love Lives - a Ballade
Seared upon my soul for ever more
That break of dawn upon a summer morn
As I made my way along that rocky shore
Strewn with remnants from...

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Categories: drip, death, love, ocean,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Forgive and Forget
I asked you what I have done wrong
But there is no response - just a stony silence
No words can convey my guilt, my inner sadness

This...

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Categories: drip, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maiden of Summer
She drifts in radiance
waking nightfall with palette's hues,
tresses of amber flames drip of vibrant
sensation… and so, in the glide
of  July nestling on grass and...

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Categories: drip, seasons,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Inner Cosmos
Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens

I have been calling you
Calling you back into...

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Categories: drip, beauty, blessing, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moon, You
you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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Categories: drip, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse

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