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Best Horizontally Poems

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


Emo Girl Explains Why She Cut
My picture of pain,
Exists with a slight twist,
I place a sharp razor on my wrist,
Dragging it vertically and horizontally I make slits,
Feeling the urge after...

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Categories: horizontally, addiction, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Seventh
Soothing ordinal number, satisfying one’s needs,
End of one’s endeavor, a completion of a week;
Valuable quantity on spiritual event like Jesus’ words on the cross,
Even church...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, success,
Form: Acrostic
Striving For Political Correctness
Striving for Political Correctness

By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, funnypeople, people,
Form: Rhyme
Love Song
Here’s what I’m thinking now 
at the end of the world: 

There are no atheists in foxholes— 
no theists in politics. 
If knowledge is power,...

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Categories: horizontally, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Her Majesty
English oak tree, named Quercus robur; though known as Her Majesty now
Named Majesty of the Woods; etiquette requires in my presence one must bow
Growing my...

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Categories: horizontally, age, old, tree,
Form: Personification



Sometimes
1/16/21


Pure silence or the sound of wind chimes
Willing to do anything to save their own hides
People still committing horrific crimes
During low and high tide
It's been...

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Categories: horizontally, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Roses In Ice
Wild Roses in Ice

At the 
very edge
of a
frozen pond
during 
the
ice-cold 
Winter
deep
in an
old
country 
forest—
unbelievably
I gaze upon
three
wild roses
frozen
in a 
block
of ice
as part
of the
larger
ice flow.

These
roses
at the
pond’s
very edge
are
rosy-red
radiant
beautiful
and even
redolent
although
encased
they...

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Categories: horizontally, allegory, beautiful, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
We Must Strive For Political Correctness
By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.

There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.

“Vertically challenged”...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Donation
The Red Cross tells me there is nothing to fear, and no harm.
However, they are sticking an awfully big needle into my arm.
This organization is...

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Categories: horizontally, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Jungle To Jungle
Jungle to Jungle

    Layers and layers of lush, razor-sharp, green foliage, providing, equally perfect habitats for multitudes of species exotic. Host to...

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Categories: horizontally, humanity, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Fantasia Erotica Ii: My Infatuation of You
Your body smiles at me
so let me reciprocate the inviting gesture
with the natural gifts of arousing pleasures
well presented in erotic packages.

My curiosity is unfairly punished
by...

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Categories: horizontally, adventure, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Independence Day
How did America declare its independence day, 
A successful war which gained America's freedom against England. 
A war fought with sacrifice. It conquered it's freedom...

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Categories: horizontally, dedication, firework, freedom, ,
Form: Free verse
Butt Man
A boob man I could be.
Yours do titillate me,  
so jiggly and bouncy. 
The two of them and me,
a love triangle we.

But your butt's...

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west...

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Categories: horizontally, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
Couch Potato
The Potato expanded to fit the Couch,
Bathing in the light of the God of Radiation,
A many hued attack on whatever senses remained.

Froth overflowing from his...

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Categories: horizontally, corruption, dark, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs