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Best Fretted Poems

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


Premium Member One Day In a Life
If you could relive one day of your life..
time lost, now retrieved for just a short while.
To thrust old scheming machinations knife,
or return healing to...

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Categories: fretted, america, day, dream, heart,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Old Boyfriends - a Trilogy
Part 1

One summer in our youth group was a boy
I met.  How I would love to understand
if what he’d felt was equal to the...

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Categories: fretted, boyfriend, , cute,
Form: Sonnet
Jimi Hendrix
Electric poems reverberated,
Within the walls of a London abode.
A psychedelic haze fueled the gift,
That a creative heart was bestowed.

Far from his broomstick days,
Passionate strums…electrified the...

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Categories: fretted, historyheart, heart, london,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member As the Train Leaves the Station
She 
rides the 
slow slide of 
her guitar blues
knife ‘gainst fretted strings of pain and pleasure

with hours to kill on train of love in vain
fields...

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Categories: fretted, heartbreak, longing, lost love,
Form: Tetractys
A Gem Over Waters
Blank, silent sight, fretted the gods,
Nowhere in the horizon, a living thing abides;
Handfuls of soil, they carry in the air,
Poured as seeds ‘till a haven...

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Categories: fretted, patriotic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel...

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Categories: fretted, dance, daughter, moon, mother
Form: Narrative
Despair
He despaired. He was despondent and desperate.
He was impelled to violent action but restrained from acting out.
He had finally given up. He had lost all...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fretted, angst, depression, satire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member December
She didn't remember who I was
But it didn't really matter
Her eyes lit up like sunshine
Each time I entered the room
as if we were long lost...

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Categories: fretted, birthday, home, husband, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vogonian Travels
Grunttenly I fretted the krakening;
Asthe ship dawns the horizon;
Burtworthy emplosions grafting;
Microrations gobblestone variants;
Up holding yon populats;
Ole!! thy fellows freddled Vogonian;
Banquish thessalonian squall;

4/20/19
written words by James...

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Categories: fretted, adventure, character, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Premium Member A Muse, Or I Was Just Thinking
A couple of days ago, something of interest occurred to me. At this point, I think that I am musing and thinking out loud. So...

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Categories: fretted, bible, easter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Sonnet On a Tough Girl
I never will forget in junior high
this girl who was a two-faced friend of mine.
I can’t remember now the reason why,
but she got mad for...

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Categories: fretted, friend, funny, high school,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Juke Box Alliteration Sensation
One fleeting Friday Freda Foster fretted at the frog pond. She  said" This was suppose 
To be my day."
I said yeah, go on. "I've...

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Categories: fretted, angst, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Fire and Ice
Now, the other day Dragon over heard it said that, eventually, we all must die.
Now remember he is only 2 years old, and suddenly he’s...

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Categories: fretted, fantasy, fun, happiness, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Treasure of My Heart
Yamaha impressed me the first time I laid eyes on her glistening blond maple wood, her stylish body details, her long fretted mother-of-pearl inlay; lobed...

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Categories: fretted, analogy, desire, feelings, friendship,
Form: Personification
Fallen Friendship
She moved away and I stayed here
and somewhat hard it's been,
to laugh and cry and be without,
my old and dearest friend.

I never, ever hear from...

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Categories: fretted, absence, friendship, hurt, missing,
Form: Rhyme

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