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Best Gracelessly Poems

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


Devil's Island
I'll tell you a tale
of our own Devil's Island
and the demonic crash
of the waves in the swell.
The smell and the taste
of the ball breaking weather;
the...

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Categories: gracelessly, adventureold, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Elegy For a Duchess
Who would believe your slim elegant body would win my affection, 
when you gracelessly step on toes? Your soft doe skin of cream 

spotted brown,...

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Categories: gracelessly, age, animal, best friend,
Form: Elegy
The Pond Called Love: a Sort of Short Satire
Some people do not fall in love
They jump, headfirst, heedlessly
With little thought of where they'll land

Others dip in a toe and then
Either slide in cautiously...

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Categories: gracelessly, funny love, love, pride,
Form: Blank verse
Just Sitting Outside
just sitting outside
chewing on this gum till i cramp up
the stress of going through it with you is making me drown in my own flatulence
i...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gracelessly, love hurts, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Watch the Fire As It Dies
Encapsulated, trapped,
  energy reserves tapped,
   vitality gone, sapped,
    lost, though we penned our own map.

From the wings we watch,...

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Categories: gracelessly, introspection, life, time
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Traveling Death Salesman
I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.

In...

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Categories: gracelessly, depression, dream, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
You Must Set Yourself On Fire
A thousand midnights tread,
Highwire circus acts
Traversing the lavender Horizon-crease;

I memorize such sudden perforations,
Keep them under my swollen tongue
Only to purge them gracelessly
Back into your fist.
Replace...

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Categories: gracelessly, allegory, faith, history, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wanted-Lost Poems
In the endless ether wander aimlessly,
Words and images dying gracelessly
They were creations fondly reared
But on the net they disappeared.

Heartbroken and bereft,I do recall
That one did...

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Categories: gracelessly, hope
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Inspiraling Expiration
It might become too ironically
and iconically embareassing
to admit
I am taking a (s)hit
while exploring
my latest
and perhaps final 
nutritional surmise
compressing peak climax 
surprise

A well-capitalized
Systematic Theology
of EcoLogical Systems
is...

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Categories: gracelessly, earth, environment, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Ghastly Grave Gathering
Ghastly Grave Gathering 

Gran and grandpa are gone
Giving grandchildren gifts
Generations greedy
Guilty, grabbing for gain
Granted gratis gold goods
Girls grovel gracelessly
Gluttonous grandkids grief 

November 2016...

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Categories: gracelessly, bereavement, betrayal, death, family,
Form: Verse
Hunting
The bird cuts across the sky
slicing the heavens up
like birthday cake.
Its wings acquire the hot breath
of life and it rises higher.
The bullet rips through 
air,...

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© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gracelessly, animal, death,
Form: Free verse
I Saw
I saw a dog one day, as I walked down the block, taking my exercise for the day. 
I saw a dog one day, chained...

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Categories: gracelessly, animal,
Form: Blank verse
Graduation
When I look back and see
those bright white lights,
those colored balloons in clusters,
I think about regret.ƒ|
You danced gracelessly,
and I didn¡¦t dance at all. ƒn

Would it...

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Categories: gracelessly, life, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Did We Go Too Far
Did we finally just push things too far
step over a sign warning us "Avert"?
Roads newly cluttered and freshly tarred
with bodies of those our trodding has...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gracelessly, america, anxiety, corruption, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Loaded For Bear, Cocked and Pointed
This vexing pencil in turgid fingers I gracelessly hold
  Sorcerer's lead conjures up casuistic captions, fools' gold

My peripatetic purple pen winks at my commands
...

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Categories: gracelessly, poetry, satire,
Form: Rhyme

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