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Best Fails Poems

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


Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: fails, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fails, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Login
Dearest soup tech
Who I love and respect
I write to you
So that you may know
I've tried to be here
With iPad and cheer
But the login fails me
No...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fails, sorry, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh, Autumn
Today I really feel it; I feel it in the air,
and even though I still can feel sun’s glow,
the breeze is blowing cooler through my...

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Categories: fails, autumn,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The Artist
Stillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed  on a fine palette
and a...

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Categories: fails, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If it was not for words

If it was not for words
there'd be no poetry.
Can a veiled muse survive,
unable to release
poems that make us thrive?

If it was not for words.
Can we...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fails, words,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys

When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...

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Categories: fails, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the...

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Categories: fails, beauty, fate, hope, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True Light
In This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light

World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing...

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Categories: fails, art, creation, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can then see rainbow hues
thus...

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Categories: fails, age, appreciation, happiness, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Welcome Spring
clouds like sheep
grazing in the blue
scatter on the breeze

How marvelous was the first week of March in my state. The temperatures exceeded my hopeful expectations....

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Categories: fails, spring,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: fails, society,
Form: Quatrain
Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fails, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She's Always Drawing Mermaids
She’s always drawing mermaids, and they bear
resemblance to their artist, for each one
is but a girl. Dark, wavy, thick, long hair
hides pre-pubescent breasts; Elysian
the islands...

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Categories: fails, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Imagine
Imagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that...

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Categories: fails, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

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