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Best Encyclopedias Poems

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


Premium Member Library Love
Lingering among the stacks
Interval of serenity, a luxury to
Borrow a world, then bring it back
Riches of printed page, once few
Are carried throughout the community
Requiring only...

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Categories: encyclopedias, appreciation, books, community, together,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Unicorns Are They Legend Or Fact Dedicated To Pd
Creature of myths and legends
most deny that you ever exist
yet time after time you reappear
history the world wide names you

Depicts you with spiral single horn
gleaming...

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Categories: encyclopedias, animal, horse, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the...

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Categories: encyclopedias, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As An Orphan
I lived lonely, like an orphan,
their single, only child.
Envied others with siblings, often.
They must make life worthwhile!

I found my greatest joy in dreams
of what I...

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Categories: encyclopedias, childhood, dream, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And God Laughed


“We will change the earth, and make it clean!
All evil leaders shall not succeed.
Illness, death shall never be seen!”
Doth does man drool in his ignominious...

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Categories: encyclopedias, future, god, humanity,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member We Are Liars
My husband and I lie so often people fact check us
We are used to it and frankly do not care
Open encyclopedias bring us no fuss
We...

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Categories: encyclopedias, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tragic Savant
“It” embraces “togetherness”
Like blemished mascara on a retired call girl

“It” would speak in aggressive audible banter,
As if crystallized bullhorns were
Strapped
Onto unwelcome seating arrangements

No boundaries.
No consideration.
No...

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Categories: encyclopedias, life, slam,
Form: Free verse
Theatre of the Absurd - Fusion
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a...

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Categories: encyclopedias, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Price of a Book
While taking stock of the library 
Here in my home today, I found myself
Considering all the pages throughout the years 
For which I’ve dearly paid....

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Categories: encyclopedias, education, home, home, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Chiraq
Chiraq

Date: Sun, Nov 15 2015 at 9:22 PM

("Killings")
("Victims")
"Imprisoned"
Highest ("Statistics")
In the ("System")
And of ("Disease")
Feeding the belly of the Beast "Obese"
Separated from Fathers & "Mothers"
Become "Hustlers"
Of the...

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Categories: encyclopedias, how i feel, lost,
Form: Free verse
Churchy Chicanery
The Easter Celebration
is a day of purest gold
for many sincere people
who believe what they've been told

"The Resurrection of Our Lord
occurred upon this day
and not to...

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Categories: encyclopedias, celebration, children, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Antique Store
I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
I stumbled over things and stepped 'round clutter to make my way!
I looked for clocks...

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Categories: encyclopedias, funny, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Electric Dreams of the Sleeping Orgonon
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“Electric Dreams of the Sleeping Orgonon”



A tangerine dream
came out of the blue
cloud busting citron...

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Categories: encyclopedias, muse, psychological, sky,
Form: Free verse
My Phone
I couldn’t live without my phone
Although when I was younger,
Since mobile phones did not exist,
I didn’t have that hunger.

I waited ‘til I got back home
To...

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Categories: encyclopedias, appreciation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Every day you drive down my street, through my neighborhood, anticipating the day we'll infinitely meet
I tried to ignore the feelings I've felt since the...

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Categories: encyclopedias, allegory, boyfriend, corruption, desire,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs