Best Exacts Poems
Below are the all-time best Exacts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of exacts poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Devil of a DealWhere will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell
How much of its our doing
How much...
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Categories:
exacts, business, corruption, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Pit of DespairSometimes, life can seem unfair,
as your heart loses all hope.
And from a pit of despair,
you struggle merely to cope.
Love is an elusive dream,
interlaced with nightmare...
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Categories:
exacts, abuse, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Quatrain
Gifts of NatureCrackling, crunchy leaves confetti the ground
as skeleton trees rattle their bare bones.
And gusty winds howl like a soulful hound
while kids mope indoors, glued to their...
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Categories:
exacts, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Sonnet
NightIn shiny armor knights of old,
Only quests for the brave and bold,
Famed Holy Grail chalice to hold.
But my heavy chalice isn’t gold,
Mine is night black...
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Categories:
exacts, 7th grade, dark, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Lockdown LockoutThis lockdown has me locked out of your heart
Though closer than a thought, we're miles apart
The shroud of silence settles tightly in
My words die on...
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Categories:
exacts, loneliness, marriage, solitude,
Form:
Rubaiyat
The Heavy Price Paid To End the Deepest of Dark PainsThe Heavy Price Paid To End The Deepest Of Dark Pains
In my night-dreams, flies jargon of oracles wise and profound
words given that break heavy chains...
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Categories:
exacts, art, creation, dark, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey to the EndFollow the winds of the Harpies.
Follow to the sigh of last breath.
Horrid hounds of Zeus beckoning
for you to embrace your dark death.
Follow the heights of...
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Categories:
exacts, death, journey, mythology, ocean,
Form:
Quatrain
The Killing Field Bong Son Vietnam
The Killing Field
Bong Son,Viet Nam
Not All Dead, Returned In Body Bags
Written: By Tom Wright
1/21/03
The war in Viet...
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Categories:
exacts, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Keola: Sonnet*Image of Clock Time Dove by Pixabay.
Keola: Sonnet
"Most people would sooner die than think, in fact, they do," ... Bertrand Russell (Quote hidden within...
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Categories:
exacts, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Bukowski ContestI watched the blood flow
poetry dripping
coagulating in pools of misery
How could a genius be so careless?
Shaving away our humanity
filtering it through an inebriated brain
Poems in...
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Categories:
exacts, crazy, farewell, image, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
Adulthood In Practice For Adult ContestAdulthood in Practice
(For Adult Contest)
There came a time when I began to see
That this life was about more than me.
And as that view sharpened in...
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Categories:
exacts, caregiving, growing up, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
A Necessary EvilHave you never tasted hunger
Tread the alleys with the stealthy
Cried the tears of someone younger
While you dined among the wealthy
Shuffled through the papers
Through the pages...
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Categories:
exacts, corruption, evil, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Love In a Nut-ShellThere has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes...
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Categories:
exacts, angst, love, marriage, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Lure of the MoorCloaking misty hills and many a deep valley floor:
The empty Moor presents an outlook, stoical and dour.
Seemingly barren, this mute guardian of history,
Emits an...
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Categories:
exacts, imagery,
Form:
Pastoral
Counterfeit SmilesLosing love before love starts,
confusion exacts a toll.
And in freshly broken hearts,
delusion corrupts the soul.
Gathering clouds sense your mood,
crying misty drops of rain.
And suddenly, a...
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Categories:
exacts, angst, betrayal, depression, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain