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Best Handheld Poems

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


Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: handheld, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member When Doves Cry
Cooling off in falling months, approaching dusk.
Coordinated chill and quilting of snow, brusque.
Cooking lots of soup, beating down dough,
as the wind whoops on a weeping...

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Categories: handheld, death, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handheld, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Flailin'
Flailin’,  flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.

Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball...

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Categories: handheld, addiction, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
A Sonnet To the Iphone
I shoot up above the silent, spellbound crowd,
Gaping down at their bright hands with glassy eyes,
Then I pierce the satin clouds that dress the skies,
And...

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Categories: handheld, addiction, loneliness, lonely, philosophy,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member Howling of Humidity
HOWLING OF HUMIDITY

No wind blows.
The sweat of a dandelion,
No seeds sold
To the gardener there.
No planting of pretty peacocks.
Umbrella wide above the sun,
Puddles gather but don’t...

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Categories: handheld, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Excerpt Number 1
Time is a consumer of
lives and souls and thoughts and love
The world that once turned yesterday
has forever gone away

Was it not good, what used to...

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Categories: handheld, life, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Seventies
I could write a poem of all the headlines, 
most influential people, and important events of the decade,
but instead, I’ll share with you some of...

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Categories: handheld, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Umbrella Dance
A million tiny feet dropped from the sky, 
tap-danced on our handheld roof;
then your lips danced on mine....

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Categories: handheld, beautiful, love, men, rain,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
  (A Native American Food Source)

Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,

Nature
sprinkles its...

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Categories: handheld, creation, history, humanity, native
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shifting Solubles
the existence of known solubles
be they spiritual, molecular or imaginary
derivations, vain or divine

Protest
Implode
Disappear
Relinquish
Begrudge
Refuse
Rebel
Resist
Rebuke
Ignore
Mock
By chance, plot or plan

take maternity shops for example
pay phones
bill of rights?
alarm clocks
constitution?
looking...

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Categories: handheld, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hive
The Queen
obvious to all who dare notice,
knows no peer.
Drones rush in to orbit in frenetic
sublimation;   workers dutifully push
the floor buttons of departure
destinations,
releasing squadrons...

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Categories: handheld, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last of the Mohicans
I have a new cell phone
It allows me to text...

I have finally caught up with the civilized world
Me...who swore on my soapbox....
   ...

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Categories: handheld, daughter, emotions, life, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tale of the Night Movers
*Image of Lovers Night by Pinterest.

Tale of The Night Movers

Hail, a phantom moon
traversing its cloaked
chambered recesses
of her prevalent crown.

Unspool gently and host
minding eyes immersed 
within...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handheld, extended metaphor, good night,
Form: Metrical Tale
Mobile
Why'd I hide it
Yeah that kind of riot
When you sigh and the silence shrieks louder than verbs and
And the direction the affection takes then
Pressures the...

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© Criss Jami  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handheld, adventure, art, love, philosophy,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs