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Best Highrise Poems

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


Highrise *****
cream pie rising high
hard on elevator ride
short skirt drop them coins



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HiGh-KoO-Coo!
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Categories: highrise, desire, girl, heaven, sensual,
Form: Haiku



Soulmates
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Returning from the nightclub; in San Francisco for the weekend; sharing a suite

Within the eighth floor highrise; best of friends for many years; hidden secret

Emotions;...

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Categories: highrise, happiness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Idea Is To
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highrise, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Local Zephyrs
June conspires
Sun and rain and wind;
Equatorial somnolence


Ways and means
Cluster of conflicts;
Confront life's business


Down winding roads
Cityscapes retreat;
Highrise dwellings clutter


Bus ride to nowhere
New estates emerge;
Road map carbon...

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Categories: highrise, community,
Form: Haiku
Bombs For the Starving
Alleys strewn with endless trash...
Discarded needles as broken glass
Shopping carts, these cornerstones
Of make shift homes; enslaved lives
Beaten hearts, grime clad children
Running wild; adorning downtown 
Parks...

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Categories: highrise, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse



Pop Culture
Have I ever mentioned the way it is in life sometimes; my own meager thoughts!?

This Pop Culture, that has always lain at the forefront of...

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Categories: highrise, hope, life, love, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Friend In Need
As owner of a business chain, I was in need of an assistant,
One with a very good memory, who was pleasant and consistent.

I knew there...

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Categories: highrise, career, fantasy, friendship love,
Form: Couplet
Mutatis Mutandis
The marquee's silhouetting neon heart's rejoicing as she sequined
Dracaena whom had merely dreamnt this dream; a fathom to be..
Bustling city streets her trouvere`in morphed vibrant...

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Categories: highrise, angel, love, visionary,
Form: Free verse
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartments
after dark April 26th, 2022

Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via...

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Categories: highrise, adventure, angel, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
This Irony As You
Living within a matrix society where one percent of it's children gather..
Ninety plus perhaps, of this lands wealth ? Again, the paradox fiery trials
Attached unto...

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Categories: highrise, art, betrayal, cancer,
Form: I do not know?
From Mark
tampa highrise job
the girls walk by,wonder
the trip of it all...

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Categories: highrise, art,
Form: Haiku
City
Through the bumble bee roads, I drive
Fleeing the swarms of pissed off hives
That find me around almost every street light
Through the infinite paths of illuminated...

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Categories: highrise, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Room At the Top
I awakened to butterscotch sunshine, pouring through my window;
And I lay there for some moments, feeling the balmy wind blow.

I would have basked in it...

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Categories: highrise, fantasy, growth, happiness, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Orpheus
Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade = 
brooke = gorgeous 
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”

Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School...

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Categories: highrise, humor, mothers day, new
Form: Free verse
Bombs For the Starving
Alleys strewn with endless trash...
Discarded needles as broken glass
Shopping carts, these cornerstones
Of make shift homes; enslaved lives
Beaten hearts, grime clad children
Running wild; adorning downtown 
Parks...

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Categories: highrise, political, pollution, poverty,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things