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Best Expense Poems

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


Premium Member When We Were Young
When we were young we loved our fairy tales
A frog could  be a prince with just one kiss
Each cloud, a boat where dreamers could...

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Categories: expense, analogy, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Desire Love Romance
All lovely words
when understood

All so misconstrued
silence envelopes our delusions

Desire, we lust the attention
at the forfeit of philosophy

Love, we crave at Kings expense
	at times
		Sacrificing those whom...

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Categories: expense, art, heart, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member T'Was the Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had...

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Categories: expense, christmas, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Red Angel
RED  ANGEL

I see the fire in your eyes!
This Red Angel, who's not human, intriguing with lies.
Pointing to the path that leads to paradise.
Ending Revelations...

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Categories: expense, angel, beauty, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Venus Courts Mars On Valentine's Day
A single red, heart-shaped balloon isn’t enough
So I splurge and buy fourteen adorned by cupid
I tie them to the chair of my beloved “Hot Stuff”
To...

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Categories: expense, funny, holidaychocolate,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expense, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sorrow O'Er Youth and Young Love Lost
When I look on my life that's now half-spent,
     I sigh the loss of youth that's forever past,
wishing myself better Fortune's...

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Categories: expense, life, loneliness, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Only Heaven Knows
That place you go between dusk and dawn,,
hiding the child within. 
Let it run free only when the door goes closed, 
and no one else...

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Categories: expense, friendship, hope, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Black Powder Dreams
Black Powder Dreams

Vast o’ the seas carry forth desperations 
Lives cast aside in the faces of war
Rotted wood planks, salted skin aspirations
Wind tattered sails bound...

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Categories: expense, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Having a Good Time'
Everyone at one time or the other have had a good time.
The world is round, the sun will rise, and all think things are fine.
For...

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Categories: expense, faithworld, time, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zombies
Zeal uncontained, needing quarantine
Oscillating rigor mortis, feigned or real
Madness, the only description saleable
Both for actors and non actors alike
Invested in the runaway train consumers
Enjoy at...

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Categories: expense, bereavement,
Form: Acrostic
To My Pest-Friend
You are my pest-friend,
As you may not know,
And I deem it my pleasure and privilege
To write this panegyric of you.

Mostly chocolate brown in complexion;
And very...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expense, funny, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Listing To Port
There was a fellow riding a certain train,
And he posted an unpopular refrain,
In it he said, the innocents are dead,
With politicians and voters to blame.

To...

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Categories: expense, introspection
Form: Limerick
Premium Member - To All Four-Legged and Two-Legged -
Hello to all four-legged and two-legged friends in the big world
The people who take care of us, do not know as much as they think
We...

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Categories: expense, funny, people, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Valentine's Hope
I've focused on this evening
For near a fortnight now
Each element planned to perfection
Every detail intended to wow

I admit that in the past
My efforts have been...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expense, me, time,
Form: Rhyme

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