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Best Folded Poems

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


Premium Member When a Man Cries
No one ever told me that your heart could bleed without a drop that anyone could see. I didn't know your soul could lose weight...

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Categories: folded, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Moonlight Serenade
Blindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...

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Categories: folded, sensual,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Gathering Wool
Cleaning out one of your drawers,
I remove your beautiful woven sweaters
     one    by    one
 ...

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Categories: folded, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaths and Fireglow
in silence, we connect through gazes
knitted by starlit eyes ablaze
like dusk's luster wafting by the sill ...
and we need not ramble in paraphrases
of  night’s...

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Categories: folded, inspirational, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Crushed
Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying ...

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Categories: folded, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse



Sweet Spring Souvenirs
Now, Spring an echo of a crazy dance
Its music still wrapping the soul in  trance.

Sweet the taste of a season of pure feel
The scent...

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Categories: folded, friendship love, heart, how
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mother - POTD
shade of vermilion encompassing sky at dawn, 
pure fragrance of delightful jasmine in summer, 
luminous dew drops quivering on lotus leaves,
an almost-forgotten melody from my childhood! 
all these...

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Categories: folded, dedication, devotion, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gray Mournings
Lace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve
Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse
Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve
At times when it seems...

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Categories: folded, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sleep Paralysis
“Sleep paralysis is like a waking nightmare, except you can’t escape it.” – Unknown



Tonight, when the 
jilted bells toll, 
my decayed 
soul sighs,
I lay paralyzed...

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Categories: folded, dark, night,
Form: Free verse
Sweetest Love Note
One night a guy & a girl were
driving home from the movies. The
boy sensed there was
something wrong because of the painful
silence they shared between them
that...

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Categories: folded, black african american, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Well-Appointed Cowpoke
A well-appointed cowpoke, of whom there are still a few,
Wanted to be properly clad for his first job interview.
So, to impress his potential and somewhat...

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Categories: folded, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: folded, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elegant Dance
Rhythmic pose arcs lifting elegant ambience
Graceful dance enshrines artful renascence
Visceral posture invites emotional response
Festive celebration of aesthetic renaissance.

Attired in red and blue of simple elegance...

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Categories: folded, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Before My Pen Is Hushed
      Before my flowing, poetic pen is hushed in Quietus,
And I have reached my journey's end with folded hands;
 ...

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Categories: folded, death, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Epic
Hideaway Nights
A drop of lonely  floats 
into a never ending kiss 
lost folded notes   play 
out in a rewind of time 

Shifting spells...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: folded, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs