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Below are the all-time best Hand Picked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hand picked poems written by PoetrySoup members


Hand-Picked By God
Marrying you is my biggest dream
When it will happen now I can’t see
In anticipation I wait 
Since our first date
I know with no doubt, that...

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© BE Bailey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hand picked, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Missing You
I look across the bed… you’re not there… you’re dead.
I look across the bed and see…you’re no longer next to me.

I reach over and try...

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Categories: hand picked, angst, death, depression, grief,
Form: Couplet
Niskriti Translated As Finally Saved
Giant poet gem, Tagore’s story-poem: NISKRITI,
Is a piazza perched paved and perfectly paced beauty;
Scale model of a castle of vast poetic kingdom,
That has spread into...

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Categories: hand picked, gender, life, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Weigh Your Words On Gold Weight -
Time for weekend humor

Do you need a good laugh ?

All cultures have humor

In an attempt to be funny

He always laughs at his own jokes

They was...

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Categories: hand picked, humor, smile, sorry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Slapstick Informatic On My Computer
With its bite or baud or bit
It takes thick my stomach strict
When the mouse is there clicked
Then my brain is hard constrict
And my thoughts are...

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Categories: hand picked, assonance, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Knickers
Twenty detectives all hand picked
Trying to find the knickers that have just been nicked
They have searched all day but nothing has clicked
I'm sure this case...

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Categories: hand picked, funny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Flying Dutchman
Off the cape of good hope,
On dead-man’s rocky reef,
A legend from old was born.
Behold The Flying Dutchman, 
Phantom’s driven ghost ship.
Seeking infinities isle beyond,
Mortal fleshes...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hand picked, adventure, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Valentine Exchange
a limerick

No longer sweehearts, but I need a gift.
For just a day can we forego our rift?
You get me a puppy dog;
I'll buy you a...

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Categories: hand picked, holiday, husband, love, wife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Godot Looking For God
There was a little boy
His name was Godot
He was searching for God
Since the moment he was born
He was lying in a crib
Woven from branches
Of dry...

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Categories: hand picked, allusion, Lullaby, spiritual,
Form: Ballad
Media Play
Visions of pain and despair, with horrors of daily life 
forced upon the masses through modern 
windows of technology.

These images burned into the minds of...

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Categories: hand picked, history, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Fate of the Flying Dutchman
Gather friends if you care to hear, I’ll favor you with a tale
About the fate of a gallant ship that long ago did sail
Built of...

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Categories: hand picked, fantasy, mystery, seajourney, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Food Lure
The art of cooking never changes,
it's lure to us debates
taste vs. smell,
then it all rises up in memory like a colorful dream,
one of art that...

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Categories: hand picked, culture, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Nations Medical Shame
Frank and Nada went together like pina-colada
Each half had dreams and brought laughs
He’d open doors and make real sure
That his Nada; he would truly care...

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Categories: hand picked, betrayal, care, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Wouldnt It Be Nice
WOULDN’T   IT   BE   NICE
 
You’re walking near the run-down end of downtown
And you see an old woman selling flowers,...

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Categories: hand picked, miracle,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Human Being
The human being
a truly interesting
creature
some may say that he
is a spiteful
feature
on nature's horizon
Some may think he is
what enhanced the
world
ingenuity,
technology,
alliances twirled  
everyday he is in
this...

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Categories: hand picked, animal, deep, giving, people,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things