Best Hyphen Poems
Below are the all-time best Hyphen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hyphen poems written by PoetrySoup members
Chase the HyphenChase Johnson-Mullins
was originally thought of as one of the dull’uns
then the hyphen was added
after most of his stats were conveniently padded....
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Categories:
hyphen, angel,
Form:
Clerihew
Categories:
hyphen, humanity, introspection, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Parable of the TalentParable of the Talent
Date: Mon, Jan 18 2016 at 6:03 PM
Writing is The Gift
I use to Submit
My Innermost Wits
Bliss
Dark Twists
Through The Eyes of The Prince
Through...
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Categories:
hyphen, light, mirror, voyage, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
ApostropheYou are my life's apostrophe
The part that has always been missing in me
You're right where the hyphen used to be-
You are my life's apostrophe
Once a...
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Categories:
hyphen, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dying Mother- Dying Mother-
Perched on her stool but getting there
Angry at paper that...
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Categories:
hyphen, addiction, death,
Form:
Free verse
FISH TO FISHESFISH TO FISHES
They changed the "many fish," it is now called the "fishes"?
As in more than "one wish" for our dreams, as in "wishes."
In...
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Categories:
hyphen, humorous, language, words, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Winter Gravestonewinter gravestone
hyphen between dates
my father's life
...
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Categories:
hyphen, farewell, father, winter,
Form:
Haiku
IF ONLY YOU KNEWDid you ever realise that one day you could be gone,
You’d close your eyes
Never to open them again.
That the world for you would stop,
But would...
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Categories:
hyphen, culture, deep,
Form:
Carpe Diem
soap-songif the sinking-of-boat …ice-cream by name
be deducted from the swept-off-in-flood … by name roll no 31
then would the wings of the comics
cease...
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Categories:
hyphen, fantasymay,
Form:
Prose Poetry
In Leading-Strings - I'LyezetteHe made me feel in my violin,
and, after all, he was much older.
Being in his house was like being at school.
I sat there waiting while...
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Categories:
hyphen, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
The Final StoneBeneath this engraved stone I forever rest,
all my pain has vanished,
all my worries are long gone,
all the tearful goodbyes have dried up.
I am now a...
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Categories:
hyphen, death, life
Form:
Free verse
HyphenatedThe million-to-one longshot -
I know this unlikely victory
isn’t so sweet when the race is fixed
and everyone got paid on the side
for being in...
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Categories:
hyphen, confusion, loss, love, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
UNYIELDINGSexism was chasing a
gibbous moon whole night.
I ask the virtuous dark,
will you be a hangman ?
Targeted love was a bliss
for a...
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Categories:
hyphen, art,
Form:
ABC
parameterswhere does the line we draw
...
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Categories:
hyphen, life,
Form:
Free verse
Hyphenated Hyperventilating
Talking heads
will give you their attached credentials
with solemn aplomb
And it’s plenty hyphen proof long
They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp
at their hyped expertise
Get simpler minds to...
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Categories:
hyphen, humorous, parody, wisdom, words,
Form:
Light Verse
Six Die FacesOne, a hole, a dot, a singularity
Two, twin dots of eyes that look back at me
Three, an ellipsis falling short tersely
Four, connect-the-dots to make...
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Categories:
hyphen, games,
Form:
Rhyme
BadBoy MonoTheistsWhere do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?
George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist...
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Categories:
hyphen, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
PossibleStraighten the spring within the edges
Brighten the sky within the abilities
Hyphen the words within the statements
Embolden the nature within the directional...
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Categories:
hyphen, 7th grade, words,
Form:
Rhyme