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Best Herded Poems

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


Premium Member The Hypocritical Goat
Not to be taken lightly, I burnt all my clothes 
Cut the tattoos off my back, tore pins from my nose 
Foraged for food particles,...

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Categories: herded, abuse, corruption, how i
Form: Rhyme



A Sword of the Heavens Did Glean
A sword of the heavens did glean

From railings and arbors 
of dead thorn and bramble,
where ghostly reminders remain

Fall droplets of blood ‘pon
a crimson embroider
 left...

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Categories: herded, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member These Trees
"I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;"
. . .
"Nathless I have been a tree amid the...

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Categories: herded, allegory, life, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scent of Talcum
    A humid afternoon , in the middle of August,  has nothing much to commend about it.  I can hear...

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Categories: herded, age, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member King of Silence
There was once a king who decided that for him - beauty was silence. 

 He issued a decree that all sound was banished henceforth...

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Categories: herded, allegory, evil, humanity, power,
Form: Prose



The Last Mountain Man
the eagle watches me 
from high above 
it has finally come to this 
I stand on this ragged lookout 
this jagged rock 
alone 

my friends...

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© Kim Mcadam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: herded, appreciation, change, sad, senses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Summer Sky
Please, grant me the vision of thirsty eyes                 ...

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Categories: herded, drink, me, nature, peace,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member They Call This Social Justice
Once our land stretched from coast to coast
and the drums of the people beat proud
we were mighty and we were strong
    ...

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Categories: herded, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holokauston Page 1 of 2
Around that table, picture the scene
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean
What were the topics on the Agenda that day
The Jewish race is...

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Categories: herded, angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the...

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Categories: herded, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Holokauston
holókauston

Around that table picture the scene 
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean 
What were the topics on the agenda that day 
The...

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Categories: herded, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alas, Truth Points To Man's Deep Hate
Alas! Truth Points To Man's Deep Hate

This dangerous world's love for war
with its evil and far flung stones
has done far too much to atone.
Fear now...

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Categories: herded, art, conflict, humanity, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Before It Began
Before it all began.....
Before our country in fear of opposition ran...
To the world's beginning of the end...
Was when foe became as enemy & no longer...

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Categories: herded, conflict, corruption, creation, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Before It Began
BEFORE IT BEGAN

Before it all began.....
Before our country in fear of opposition ran...
To the world's beginning of the end...
Was when foe became as enemy &...

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Categories: herded, journey, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Wipeout
WIPEOUT

You  cannot imagine us today as we were  -
Almost simply a vestigial memory;  but  once
We  were numberless and roamed the...

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Categories: herded, animals
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs