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


Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

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Categories: explanation, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Quarantine of the Soul
-Quarantine of the Soul-


Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost 
Dark
You open...

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Categories: explanation, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: explanation, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014
A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)

I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.


"A Rational...

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Categories: explanation, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form: Rhyme
The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons…

It was spring and I was young when I had wine.
I was singing and dancing and doing fine. 
The wine was so divine,...

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Categories: explanation, age, allegory, allusion, seasons,
Form: Rubaiyat



Playground
Playground…

Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...

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Categories: explanation, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...

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Categories: explanation, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slavery In Haiti
Haiti, the home of voodoo practices
Seventeenth Century Spain cedes to France
Catholic Spaniards trembled when they saw
“Dead” men revived to wander in trances

A vile poison can...

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Categories: explanation, history, socialgod, men, night,
Form: Quatrain
Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn Leaves
Scurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.

a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying...

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Categories: explanation, absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form: Haibun
The Life Is
The Life Is …

The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...

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Categories: explanation, allusion, angst, life, old,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Female Spirit
women of dusk and dawn
who love to feast on their senses
in a banquet ripened by love and courage,
chilled to last till the moonlight
bequeaths more hours...

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Categories: explanation, mystery, woman,
Form: Free verse
Diamonds
Diamonds

We all have so many diamonds that we own,
but we think of them as glass or bits of stone.
We often sell them as cheap pieces...

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Categories: explanation, age, allusion,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Lonely Plobawobby
In a pond beside a meadow
Where the slime and algae gurgle
Dwells a lonely Plobawobby
Lurking deep in murky waters.
There in sludgy weedication
All day long alone he...

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Categories: explanation, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Close Encounter
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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Categories: explanation, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Education

education
              an equation
    wrapped up
    ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explanation, appreciation, education,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs