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Best Drop In The Bucket Poems

Below are the all-time best Drop In The Bucket poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of drop in the bucket poems written by PoetrySoup members


Not Even a Drop In the Bucket
Some people suffer a lot and some people suffer hardly at all
Some appreciate what they got some wanting what they saw
Why then the difference, and...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



A Drop In the Bucket
I spoke to God the other day
Wanting to hear what he had to say

My ask 
What is my task

Why am I here at all 
Every...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, appreciation, celebration, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Zero Tolerance
**** that ****.
I’m not a diagnosis.  
Something to be “fixed”.
I am a combination of traits and features
that make me a woman of depth and...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, beautiful, change, courage, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Real Friends
They are like night and day
Always there,
Even when not seen, I know they’ll be here
Treat me like a brother, oh how much they care
How many...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, appreciation, blessing, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aphorisms- Idiomatic Expressions
*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop in the bucket, satire,
Form: Lyric



Psychobabble
Pattern creator weaving through semantic gridlock. Synaptic blockage has me dining on feedback. Consuming concepts of Id's bleeding out a dissociative psychocollage. 
No Map No-Thing.
Images...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, angst, art, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overwhelmed
Now with mass media
I can see over there
So many disasters
The World now can share

Numbing our senses
With sensory overload
Hunger and pestilence 
I see bombs explode

For me...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Tears To See Clear
I thank you, Lord, over and over again,
for the love within the story never comes to an end,
the now that shows light like never before,
the...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, baptism, freedom, love, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
Escape To Quantum Pastures
drop in a bucket
the molecules dont stay still
moving before our motion

expression in many facets
the dimensions beyond a mention
these edges erased with questions

this isnt supposed be...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, perspective, space, word play,
Form: Free verse
Ten Seconds
Ten seconds is a very long time
When that’s all you have to live
There’s time enough to make your peace
But not time enough to give…

…to give...

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© Tom Kenney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop in the bucket, new york, war,
Form: Rhyme
Oceans End
Oceans End
Another drop in a bucket
A bucket that has no bottom
A bottom that has no end
An ocean waits large and full of water
It dreams of...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, adventure, creation, dream, identity,
Form: Free verse
~ (~) ~ Never Bow Down ~ (~) ~
~ (~) "Because yes I believe as well-true abhorrence is the springboard for more pain, love 
is the land of peace that lie between." "Denial...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop in the bucket, inspirationalhate, longing, peace, hate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tthe Last Great American Bad Ass
from a young child they were groomed
a silver spoon they new not of
they were born in the gutter
there mother was a whore
selling her junk from...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Its Name Is Far Out
a new dwarf planet...
announced only this past year...
"hello...distance here...

eleven...billion...
miles away...orbiting now...
just off to one side...

gravity well...yes...
twenty two billion miles wide...
a spin round the sun...

it is...

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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drop in the bucket, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Begin the Begun
In the beginning of time
We sought out a rhyme that would make things begin to shine
Each of us has been given a real talent to...

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Categories: drop in the bucket, beauty,
Form: Free verse

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