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Best Garbage Poems

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


Premium Member ''Making a Gem Out of Garbage''
I gather up each word, each thrown away,
putting my poetry back together;
words "thrown" to wither and decay,
     this garbage- I love...

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Categories: garbage, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Poets
When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...

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Categories: garbage, appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: garbage, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: garbage, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: garbage, weather,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: garbage, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Value Yourself, Poet

Stop being so downcast!
Stop feeling so blue!
And please, stop caring about how many here like you!
On this planet we have but a short time here.
Don't...

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Categories: garbage, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer
One more morning,after one more night,
One more thanks for keeping things right,
One prayer to bed,one as you rise,
Good morning God,thanks for another sun rise,
Prayer is...

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Categories: garbage, faith, religion, uplifting, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Sarah's Story - Mental Illness
Sarah’s Story - Mental Illness

Sarah, the “Crazy Lady,” was a familiar sight,
roaming the streets any time of day or night.
Her foul body odor announced her...

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Categories: garbage, crazy, depression, hurt, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In My Opinion
Everything that’s happening this year
was all planned out.
That’s what Agenda 21 (declared as false online)
 is all about.
Documents related to the plan
are out there in...

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Categories: garbage, political,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member A Gentle Breeze
It begins as a gentle breeze
rustles the leaves with its touch.
Scurrying through the tops of trees,
it begins as a gentle breeze.
Not enough to discourage bees,
it's...

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Categories: garbage, hyperbole, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: garbage, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day After Christmas
On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.

My brothers and I...

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Categories: garbage, childhood, christmas, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Contamination
So much contamination
needs a close examination.

take a breath of radiation
or a toxic medication
select a name with aspartame
clean your car of acid rain
eat the food with...

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Categories: garbage, environment, pollution, society,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Roses Are Red Collab-26
These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous.  If you would like to add one of your own...

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Categories: garbage, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick

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