Best Epithets Poems
Below are the all-time best Epithets poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of epithets poems written by PoetrySoup members
Zinc Adulating
Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...
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Categories:
epithets, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form:
ABC
ReconstructionLincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists,
their clenched jaws and fists.
Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks and mirages.
Nobody is qualified...
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Categories:
epithets, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form:
Political Verse
Writing Is a Wonder-Filled GameWithout the relentless grind of living
each glorious and difficult day
those who take up the writing life wouldn't
have much to say.
It's the flowers...
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Categories:
epithets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
What's Wrong With You, ManIf I spit at you
Wouldn't you smile at me
If I swung a bat at you
Wouldn't you give me a big hug
If...
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Categories:
epithets, america, hate, love,
Form:
Free verse
If Dogs Could TalkIf dogs could talk, what would they say?
Would they label any of their own as "mangy mutts?"
Would they toss around epithets...
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Categories:
epithets, character, dog, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Mother's Little KillersMOTHER’S LITTLE KILLERS
She hates them, the unguent power
Which sticks her fairy wings together
Making impossible the ivory tower
Of disinterested passion, the if and whether
Of generic names,...
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Categories:
epithets, addiction, depression, mother, drug,
Form:
Sonnet
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By ThiruvalluvarThe Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar
allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum
mallalmaa...
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Categories:
epithets, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
The Value of Reading
"The Value of Reading"
messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?
"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late
when it...
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Categories:
epithets, betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form:
Narrative
My Love's DemiseAtrium's veneer was of coagulum
Of epithets and vague reflexions
That halted the roue from circulation
Vengeance was her ultimatum
And thus her...
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Categories:
epithets, death, feelings, grief, life,
Form:
Rhyme
GarudaI am Garuda, a vahana of Lord Vishnu
A crown on my head show you my divine
As I soaring high in the air
Vedas chanted out of...
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Categories:
epithets, bird, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
In Abasement In a BasementOH - nonny, NO - nonny
Nicholas Goalsworthy
Promised again to
Renounce alcohol.
Characteristically
Incomprehensible,
Muttering epithets,
Cursing the wall....
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Categories:
epithets, angst, depression, sad,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Observed In a Small TownIt was Friday night in small town, USA. The convenience store clerk was outside in the parking lot, arguing with her boyfriend. Instant recognition, one...
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Categories:
epithets, humanity, life, youth,
Form:
Prose
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward:...
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Categories:
epithets, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
TidesAs the tides roll in off the sea
Erased are the days memories
In sand many poems were written
Epithets sketched in bare feet-
Reading the unwritten-
Under the shade...
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Categories:
epithets, devotion, visionary,
Form:
Carpe Diem
A - Sonnish - On FluidityDon’t define me by what you think I am
I refuse to label myself
Exclude me from your pre-program
I don’t follow your parallel
How I express things...
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Categories:
epithets, change, gender, identity, image,
Form:
Sonnet