Best Foible Poems
Below are the all-time best Foible poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of foible poems written by PoetrySoup members
Whitewashing the FenceI've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...
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Categories:
foible, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
A Promise Etched Across the Breadth of My HeartIf my love were to be frozen in time
would its enamored glow forever remain
as poetry in a book, Sonnets written in rhyme?
If in flakes of...
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Categories:
foible, love, passion, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh! Dear Gawd!Mom looks through windows
A watched pot will never boil
A daughter's courtship
Contest; "Redneck Psalms, Improve Human Foible"
Sponsored by: John Freeman...
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Categories:
foible, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form:
Senryu
Villain UnmaskedVillain Unmasked
In odd places the Villain appears,
In the right places he disappears-
On merry moments then re-appears.
For, such is the habit of a Villain
Who enjoys to...
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Categories:
foible,
Form:
Rhyme
Tunde CanadaThe story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to
Embroidered in revenge.
Tunde Canada!
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard,...
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Categories:
foible, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Who I AmI am sensitive, self-conscious,
Nervous, listless, anxious,
Caught up in the grind of life
Its stress and its strife.
With no goal, no aim, no purpose,
Oh, just living a...
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Categories:
foible, self,
Form:
Lyric
StupidityStupidity
A tragic foible—
For those so blinded in life.
Stupidity’s sad . . .
Negation’s ugly face . . .
To be challenged at all times!
Gary Bateman,...
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Categories:
foible, allegory, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form:
Tanka
Man Vs. NatureMan versus Nature, who will win?
Almighty nature or man with his sin
Which one will want it more?
Who will settle the score?
Let the colossal battle begin!
~4th...
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Categories:
foible, nature, people
Form:
Limerick
God's RedemptionWe saw in the garden the seed
Planted by man’s first evil deed
God sent his own son
To be the right one
To absorb sin so man be...
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Categories:
foible, religion
Form:
Limerick
Writing It RightNo matter how or what you write:
A myth, a melodrama or a mystery,
About your life or a dreadful night
In a poem, a song or a...
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Categories:
foible, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Stop Playing With That!Keep playing with that
and you will go blind, young man!
Every boys' nightmare...
Won 5th place in the...
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Categories:
foible, funny
Form:
Senryu
ScourmoueinnScourMoueINn
ScourMoueINn
Sahrah tends. Sahrah tends the bar at the Inn. The ScourMoueINn. She washes dishes
passes out Ale to the largesse man drinks...
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Categories:
foible, imagination, science fiction, teen,
Form:
Prose Poetry
MantraSpell sanguine sell
Wonder words well
Meet myriad maze
Dance dreamy daze
Vibrant verse voice
Play pretty poise
Bright blossoms bloom
Gripes gather gloom
Mantra moves moods
Grandeur grooms good
Signs signal swift
Draw doubtful drift
Art...
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Categories:
foible, beauty,
Form:
Alliteration
Not For the Finicky Or FaintheartedMy mind is experiencing a fastidious flatulence; slightly fiendish, and not for the
finicky or fainthearted.
I fidget amidst it's fanatical far-fetched farce yet stand fearless,...
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Categories:
foible, funny, imagination, life, parody,
Form:
Alliteration
DisobedienceA foible is the result of a flaw
in those disobeying the Law;
our ancestors defied God,
not honoring their Lord...
and they lost all the richness they saw....
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Categories:
foible, death, loss, sad, social
Form:
Limerick