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Best Expire Poems

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


Every Poet In You Quenches a Fire
It was quite a time
when with my mind you used to rhyme
and in the tune of my heart you sign.

That time was quite long
when I...

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Categories: expire, art, beauty, heart, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: expire, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You are Poetry
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”  Rumi


Oh my love,
you will always sit
as the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expire, love, poetry, romance,
Form: Verse
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: expire, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expire, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Spirit of Christmastide
Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the...

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Categories: expire, christmas, december, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Murder In Randolph County
(Spenserian Sonnet) 

A flagrant man is Robert Brown, a swine;
his eyes glow red like ember coals of fire.
Will fate be kind or bring him bitter...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expire, murder,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: expire, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rattling Rhyme
Ride of the Scarecrow Clan

(To: Mittens) 

She was born in the corn on a cold misty morn,
the most beautiful cat on the farm.
(I must keep...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expire, beautiful, cat, jealousy, magic,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon

The Cocoon~

Inside...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expire, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Words Pale
I thought you the Master of Expression
               Your verbal dexterity
 ...

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Categories: expire, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth-Full Liar
A golden coin flipped into the sky
One side is absolute truth
the other side is stamped with lies
Hope it lands right/wrong side up
so you can partially...

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Categories: expire, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Hunter-Green Silhouettes
Lilac scents the evening's sultry air,
its sweet fragrance wafting with every breeze.
And an indigo sky of flawless blue
offsets emerald leaves atop the trees.

Sol sinks like...

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Categories: expire, beautiful, imagery, imagination, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member One Thousand Goodbyes
One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...

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Categories: expire, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Above Forever
Biting into the dead,  
he tastes  the aftertaste of burnt ashes!
The meal of her emotions,
buried alive within silken strands.
Blood inside sorrow burning,
sweet desire...

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Categories: expire, angel, beautiful, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs