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Best Hyphens Poems

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


Premium Member No Ifs Ands Or Hyphens
Some days are diamonds, some days are diamonds
Hey wait! Somethings wrong, each man is an island
What's good for some
Some fall on their bum
For me, it's...

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Categories: hyphens, fun,
Form: Limerick



Punctuation
Morning is a question mark – 
Serenity or drama?
Afternoon’s a semi-colon,
Period or comma.

If the day’s routine,
You’d list its parts behind a colon:
Ordinary expectations 
Keep those...

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Categories: hyphens, life,
Form: Rhyme
Punctuated In Time
Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe

Ambidextrous clock with appalling...

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Categories: hyphens, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Radio Days
Hey DADDY run as-fast-as-you can
You oughta-see-my-mama-oh-man
She dancin to a radio show
And bein kinda naughty-you-know

Never seen her actin this-way-before
Look she shufflin out-all-over-the-floor
It's a song that I...

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Categories: hyphens, music,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member *****Destructus
Apparently Soup finds the Latin word for ‘Human’ offensive;
about as ‘P.C. gone wrong’ as it’s possible to get. I have had to
include completely superfluous hyphens...

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Categories: hyphens, humanity, war,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Carpet Burn
We lie
           in each other’s arms
as
     I run my fingers
through my...

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Categories: hyphens, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clouds
Buoyant on the North west winds;
Shredded clouds expose a half moon eye.
An eye that stares cautiously at
The hyphens of cars below.

Stratus sunsets trace the highway,
That...

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Categories: hyphens, life
Form: Narrative
What Am I
Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ, 
Don't matter what the time is...

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Categories: hyphens, adventure, art, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Fish To Fishes
FISH 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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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hyphens, humorous, language, words, writing,
Form: Light Verse
At the Window
A Buddha moon bellies upon the clouds

And with the staccato echo of heels on concrete

I hurry to my window, for it was the sound 

of...

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Categories: hyphens, love,
Form: Free verse
Literalness of the Prairie
Literalness Of The Prairie

Those that cannot remember the past -
are often run over by it for nothing lasts.
The truck may 
Be driven
By a unicorn. 
Even...

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Categories: hyphens, allegory, future, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
~ (~) ~ Heroin, Took My Mother ~ (~) ~ For This and All Our Christmases Missed ~ (~) ~
Time spells 
out a harsh 
reflection, 
sometimes.


Lifeless, pale... 
holes under your-
knees... on your ankles, 
up and down your arms.


Hate fills him now, oh, his-
rage, my...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hyphens, inspirational
Form: Prose Poetry
The Giving Trees 1
I
went
about
to pray
one day
to Jesus,
and as I
looked around
I gazed in my way
upon a place a ways,
afar, and so I could see
the generous gapes of
the giving trees,...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hyphens, inspirationalgod, god, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
It Was Invasion
How will you measure the wide
gulf between words and hyphens ?
             The apostrophes...

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Categories: hyphens, art,
Form: ABC
A Central Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_YJhmGKTxk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-VCHzS1So&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwsvqVmFV6Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18CJGlp5eiI&feature=related

"A good-controversy is-just-like a real-tasty pot of-beans; replenishing 
the water-you-have to-keep-them stirred-up, lest you-do-this-they-tend to-
get to tasting-bad, getting-stuck-on-themselves, burning to-the bottom-of the-
pot... ."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKbk_dQ8Mhg

"I mean imagine...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hyphens, inspirationalgod, god,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs