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Best Erudite Poems

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


Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: erudite, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poet Plus Teacher- PS
Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I...

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Categories: erudite, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Obama Rhapsody - Potd
His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's...

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Categories: erudite, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political,
Form: Ode
Thoughts of Infinite Light
Thoughts of Infinite Light


Thru no beginning and everlasting end, the loving light shall transcend
The Angels of illumination shall defend its passionate passage to extend
From within...

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Categories: erudite, devotion, easter, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soupercilious

My Favorite Things comes to mind...


a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscured in meaning, eschewing...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erudite, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme



Morning Delight
 MORNING DELIGHT

In one clasps of our hands
Suddenly the murmurings
Are becoming warm and intense
As boldness left behind dumbness
As together now we sing melodious
Songs, caressing. kissing,...

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Categories: erudite, lovesweet, sweet, together, high
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Autobiography of a Brook
You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was...

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Categories: erudite, care, caregiving, change, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Kissing Loop
"The Kissing Loop"



My eyes close to keep you there
in a dream slow dancing, bow and cello we waltz in air
bending you closer into my body
like...

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Categories: erudite, birth, death, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heedless P-L-A-N-T
Plant Not your seeds in Poor
soil. Heinous and Quagmire
loves society. Yet,
you seclude yourselves from
your very own seed that
you have planted. But, Why?!

Non compos mentis
at the...

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Categories: erudite, angst, life, people,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Purveyor of Ecstasy
Miles in a coaster, a day and hours elapsed, 
Felt the utmost relief when the whirling wheels halted; 
So weary and dizzy, even a smile...

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Categories: erudite, appreciation, beauty, education, environment,
Form: Quatrain
Scion of Wisdom
A sage with wisdom so erudite
Muse filtering hope, shedding light
Mentor whose keen insight doth shape, mold
Dr Ram's words are better than gold

Twining cultures with his...

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Categories: erudite, dedicationwords,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Argument
The Argument has always been,
Who gets to decide what is right?
You think yourself a Sovereign?
Let's examine the Erudite!

"Man should make the sovereign choice,"
The Erudite Scholar...

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Categories: erudite, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buying a Bestseller
At the crowded book store
People are lining up
Eying an autographed copy
Of a newly released bestseller.

Enthusing front of the line
Are the scholarly readers,
Critics, and the like:
Aspiring...

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Categories: erudite, books, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musing: Do Not Wonder
Wise people know that they know nothing.

Erudite people doubt that they know many things.

Ignorant people are certain that they know everything.

Now,

The first category of people...

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Categories: erudite, humorous, wisdom, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eating Religion At Midnight
Word Lyric for Music #1

“Eating Religion at Midnight”

Saw Big Edith at the laundry mat,
Says she’s got a bad case of stage fright,
But she’s big and...

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Categories: erudite, loneliness,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs