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Below are the all-time best Fifteen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fifteen 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: fifteen, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: fifteen, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Wild Rose
This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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Categories: fifteen, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Creamy Chicken Soup -
     When it's soup season on Poetry Soup
     Ingredients are in large selection
    ...

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Categories: fifteen, food, humor, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Quirks
Some people frankly write about their quirks.
If I had any, I would tell you so.
Though no outlandish trait within me lurks,
some folks think I’m a...

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Categories: fifteen, relationship, repetition,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: fifteen, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tiger In the Sea
I thought I had hooked the world’s largest grouper
After struggling for hours, I was still reeling
Refused help from a friend; I was a trooper
Somehow I...

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Categories: fifteen, adventure, animals, seame, tiger,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member During Sex I'M Often Naked
You can't make someone love you all you can do 
is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.

No matter how much...

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Categories: fifteen, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Domino Effect - Selfish Selfie
Please do not touch

Just read the signs dotted around the gallery display
So you take a selfie ...
What harm can it do?

Your camera shutter
clicks 
clicks 
clicks
as...

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Categories: fifteen, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0
I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)

Two a.m....
I open my window 

...a crack,

the dark is blinding.

It is a severe cold outside 
a...

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Categories: fifteen, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil Made Me Do It
It had been a long night, an hour drive just to be with my sister. One must stay in touch with family; it’s the right...

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Categories: fifteen, anger, feelings, relationship,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fifteen, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Angel Bones
Angel Bones

Two Hundred fifteen angels  (Narration by an elder)
each buried in a shallow grave
The monsters said the Angels were savages
that they were there to...

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Categories: fifteen, abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: fifteen, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Trek Into a Forest Wonderfully Deep, New Dawn- Second Battle, Part Two
A Trek Into A Forest Wonderfully Deep,
(New Dawn- Second Battle, Part Two) 

This vista, newfound view image of divine scene
fertile virgin ground, pretty as a...

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Categories: fifteen, appreciation, art, conflict, dark,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs