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Best Erect Poems

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


Premium Member The Blind Painter
There is a part of me missing
There is a part of me that shall never be
Inside of this dark sad brooding mind
Is the painter who...

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Categories: erect, analogy, art, beautiful, dream,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member That Period of Life
Orange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?

Senses and instincts are the same...

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Categories: erect, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sands of Love
Two statues of stone
On pedestals in the park
One male
One female
White objects of a perfections beauty
Yet they stood erect and alone
When the rain fell
This was their...

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Categories: erect, beautiful, beauty, garden, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: erect,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Curse: Collaboration
A man with a quiet demeanor
was cursed with a miniscule wiener.
He tried lotions and pills
But not one cured his ills.
Now he's a silent nail hole...

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Categories: erect, body, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Luxury of Ordinary
Today was a good day

Today he walked on legs unbent
And erect spine of a man intent

On stilling the cacaphony of monotony
And smoothing the callouses of...

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Categories: erect, cancer, hope, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: erect, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Living Love Fire
Take a look my Love
do you see how the diamonds of our dreams
are burning so brightly and violently
silhouetting the lips of our wishes against the...

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Categories: erect, inspirational, love,
Form: Romanticism
Eucalyptus Longing
The rushing wonts of action render these happenings unmovable,
These feelings, passionately felt, to dull words ill and strained
She clings, my koala, with chocolate eyes pining...

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Categories: erect, beauty, dedication, for her,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Playing God
Oh, how I cherish that bright sun!  But, she
must turn me often lest I grow deformed
and stifled in my quest for too much light.

And...

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Categories: erect, analogy, god, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Personification
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: erect, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Mushroom Cloud
Fires at a blue pills lab threw up a cloud
Settling over the town like a great shroud
And this gigantic mushroom 
Created a baby boom
Because all...

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Categories: erect, humor,
Form: Limerick
Maiden of the Moon
*****Anyone who knows my poetry knows how I often use Greek mythology in my works. This poem revolves around the idea of the moon longing...

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Categories: erect, moon, mythology, romance,
Form: Romanticism
No One Is Perfect
Don't know why people boast and stand erect, 
As I have heard no one is perfect.
Is it only money or power for this cause?
And for...

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Categories: erect, anti bullying, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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Categories: erect, aubade, beauty, dog, for
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs