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Best Funded Poems

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


2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and...

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Categories: funded, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form: Free verse



Say Hell No To the Vaccine
Their Plans are being implemented as Trump says, "Operation Warp Speed."
Say Good Bye to the Country We All Cherished. The Coin shortage is the planned...

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Categories: funded, betrayal, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Won'T Tell You
•	Warning:  This is a brutal truth and if you don’t want to hear about what is happening lately regarding things you may not have...

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Categories: funded, america, angst, health, political,
Form: Narrative
Hate Is Hate
Hating hate
Is still hate
hate is not defeated with hate
hate is not defeated by love
hate is quelled with understanding
but
we have forgotten how to listen
instead of listening...

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Categories: funded, culture, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Steps Aside
STEPS ASIDE

They’ve banned the “step counters”
Outlawed the treadmill and stationary bike
Banned jogging (aka fast walking for the elderly)
Sports will be limited to “non-aerobic” activities
Tiddlywinks tournaments...

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Categories: funded, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Virus Card
They've tossed their souls away
again
harlots for a vote
they've fingered the race card
the rapist card
the Russian card
the Ukraine card
now they're playing mahjong 
with a virus.
Muzzling our...

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Categories: funded, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dental Rockstar
I went to the dentist
It had been awhile
Yet after much drilling
Followed by filling
The bills heaped in a pile

He said come twice a year
Or try to...

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Categories: funded, crazy, health, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
No More
No more creativity deemed on 
the exercise of rotten faculty
Nor burning intelligence’s 
penalty
Nor repression sold as 
suppression
Nor dissemination of distortion 
I shall be content at...

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Categories: funded, hope, life, me, truth,
Form: Concrete
Not Down With This Sickness
There is a system 
That turns innocent to victim..
And the aggressor turns to witness.
There’s a sickness in this business.
The whole judicial system is with this!
Swept...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funded, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Hidden Truth
The American Calvary slaughtered native
Americans almost wiping them into
extinction. They took their land away and
put them on reservations. How come in the
movies, the old stories...

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Categories: funded, cute, pain,
Form: Free verse
Tale of Inner Child
Chasing your tail forever like a dog
Into the forest, confusion of the fog
A door that’s locked, without a key
Asleep you found it, woke not to...

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Categories: funded, cheer up, childhood, children,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Light In the Heavens
Galileo had his turn.
But with much still left to learn
the brown dwarf sat-----waiting.

Then came hubble to the frey.
Seeking in a finite way
the brown dwarf teasing.

Nibiru,...

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Categories: funded, environment, planet,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member People of Faith
It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.

After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?

Our faith...

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Categories: funded, culture, earth day, education,
Form: Political Verse
Sparky, We'Re Going Under
Happy 5th birthday have you accepted rape into your life,
It's a patriarchal practice built from sadism and male strife,
A hedonistic ritual to keep us all...

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Categories: funded, gender, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Politics At Play
Here we go, 
        so far from in the know.
How did these candidates get chosen,
  	funded by...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funded, angst, corruption, political, recovery
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs