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Best Exaggerated Poems

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


An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: exaggerated, myth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Is Love - What Is Love
What is love? What is love? ‘Tis a word often heard.
“Unconditional love” oftentimes is absurd
because there are many who seem so capricious.
Tossed around is the...

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Categories: exaggerated, love,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty In My Palm
You are the wild flower in my palm
With no stem to keep you anchored to this covetous earth
You are the fragile thing I dare not...

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Categories: exaggerated, devotion, fantasy, friendship, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Way Back Then When I Was Ten
I was shot by Cupid's tainted dart
And puppy love awakened my sleeping heart
Tried to impress with exaggerated tales
Mark the box letters sent through the mail

Hunted...

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Categories: exaggerated, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Caught By a Train
I was caught by a train yesterday

I hear people say
this often in exasperation
exaggerated tones
with over-dramatic groans
as if the train somehow
physically captured them
in its large mechanical...

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Categories: exaggerated, appreciation, art, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Don'T
don't do me a favor
by reading my rhyme
don't be insincere 
when you write me a line

don't visit my writing
though I ask you why
"To repay a...

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Categories: exaggerated, poetry, poets, pride, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Slips the Blue Satine
“Slips the Blue Satine”



Desire bites 
a sonnet ripped 
where the voice projects
through glossy cherry bit lips
down a telephone line
wrapped around long legs

speaking soft words
welcoming you...

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Categories: exaggerated, blue, freedom, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Overthink It
Each of us live for the moment
As none are promised time
Not knowing which is our last
We make choices with that in mind

In life we bathe...

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Categories: exaggerated, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Devil's Dalliance
An Devil's Dalliance


It was just one of those mornings?
Or at least I think it was, that is,
if I had created “morning’s” yet.
All my little angels...

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Categories: exaggerated, angel, creation, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Facebook
the bright monitor
glares through inky darkness--
a clock ticks

My heart lurches painfully in my chest as my mind tries to process what I'm seeing. My mug...

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Categories: exaggerated, life,
Form: Haibun
Let's Keep It Real
It's funny when you just feel like you in this world alone -
Know one understand's you , not even the one's who consider themselves 
to...

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Categories: exaggerated, black african american, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member After Hours
AFTER HOURS
Dudes in duds broken down brims 
cocked and bent creases in trousers 
when thugs were gents 
People with attitude women too 
demeanor and outfits...

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Categories: exaggerated, culture, father, nostalgia,
Form: Ballad
Sulu, Lock Phasers and Await My Command 2
(Spock)

Captain, sensors indicate a power surge
Resonating through their ship's body
I'm sure I don't have to remind you
They have their own Scotty




(the questioning me)

But where has...

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© The Fringe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exaggerated, philosophy, spacefaith, fear, me,
Form: I do not know?
Moon N Me
As darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in...

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© Hina Nasir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exaggerated, anxiety, conflict, depression, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Sentimentality
Oh the humanity 
the humanity 

Oh spare me the grief 
thy fake tears 
woe is me, mentality 
syrupy behaviour 
Munchausen propensity 
it sticks between my...

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Categories: exaggerated, anti bullying, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs