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Best Ex(A) Poems

Below are the all-time best Ex(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ex(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members


Dear Ex
Dear Ex,

I know you and I had our differences.
We were always finding new ways to say I loathe you.

It was my blameworthiness that allowed the...

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Categories: ex(a), life, recovery from...rain, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: ex(a), love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Tribute
This is a well deserved tribute that I'd like to share
For those wonderful people working in our health care
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and admin staff too...

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Categories: ex(a), people, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M More
You severed my wings
For your failure to fly
But I soar - 'cause I'm more
than your ex, or your why.

11/6/19...

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Categories: ex(a), flying, recovery from, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Drew a Heart
I can't watch a happy ending,
Guy gets the gal,
Girl gets her pal,
I can't do it with out crying.

Maybe I'm like you,
maybe you cry too.
I'll tell...

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Categories: ex(a), lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Waiting For Sunrise
My whole life waits, just this moment, the ink still

wet; for sunrise this clear May morning.

My shaman up already,
hair askance, dancing and trilling his flute
to...

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Categories: ex(a), assonance, beautiful,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: ex(a), life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ode To Chocolate-Collaboration
To chocolate I pay my respects
Some folks say its better than sex
whether milk dark or white
Ev’ry bar I must bite
or I'll get a lack of...

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Categories: ex(a), candy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: ex(a), bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tale of Righteous and Just Demise of Old Jack
Tale Of Righteous And Just Demise Of Old Jack

Old Jack had shot many before, once just for the sheer hell of it
Never squeamish about the...

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Categories: ex(a), art, creation, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Only Human
This won't be a pretty picture, but I'm going to use this paper to put my art on
I'm not heartless, let me show you where...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ex(a), dark, deep, depression, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Is a Risky Business
Poetry is a Risky Business

The Recipe for Poetry

Open stereo
Turn volume medium high
Poor 3 shots of whiskey
Add 2 bottles of wine
Open 1 bag of chips
Add one...

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Categories: ex(a), art, butterfly, candy, cheer
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...

Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of...

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Categories: ex(a), appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Take Out the Landry
 Take Out the Landry

Dirty laundry for years on the floor
finally the dirt is out the door
Quebec is cleaning house
separatists being laid to graves
like Napoleonic...

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Categories: ex(a), evil, funeral, hate, november,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My African Sister
I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ex(a), familyfamily, class, class, family,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs