Best Horizontally Poems


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 every heartbreak,
Feeling the urge......

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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 sacraments ......

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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 a spade.

“Vertically challenged” means ......

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, funnypeople, people,
Form: Rhyme

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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, 
and power corrupts, 
then why did I bother reading you, C......

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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 branches outwards, thus enhancing the wi......

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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 one hell of a rolle......

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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
o......

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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” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a......

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horizontally, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 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 happy to get a donor like me.
After all, ......

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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 panthers, pythons and multifarious arrays ......

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Categories: horizontally, humanity, nature,
Form: Haibun

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 what sends me 
skyward.  My ecstasy 
comes when I get to see 
that ......

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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 we......

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Categories: horizontally, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry

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
......

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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 July Four Seventeen seventy-s......

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Categories: horizontally, dedication, firework, freedom, ,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Earth Day Voices

...Voices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z, 
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z

Anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awak......

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Categories: horizontally, culture, earth, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
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