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Best Improvisational Poems

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


Labyrinth of Sighs
Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go...

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Categories: improvisational, life,
Form: Rhyme



Jazz
I have a strong need to elucidate my unfathomable love for
You,
named JAZZ

The improvisational sound of ragtime and jive.
Bop to the bebop of your rhythmic stride.

O...

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Categories: improvisational, love, music, parody, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
The Rising Son
Son of the Sea TrilogyPart2 
                   ...

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Categories: improvisational, metaphor, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry
Handling Heartbreak
handling heartbreak
i become dependent on movement
two pints of oreo ice cream later
i retrace my steps on purpose
interrogation light on me interrogated
by me, myself, and i
a...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: improvisational, heartbroken, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
Perchance yar juiced a young man or woman 
maybe born, bread and raised in the city that never sleeps
and as a loyal son or daughter...

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Categories: improvisational, adventure, appreciation, devotion, family,
Form: I do not know?



Miles of Blu
MILES OF BLUE
By
Tony Adamo (Nov.25,’05)

I walked into a little jazz dive off 125th and Lex.
A cold wind blew me through the swingin’ doors.
Beer, peanuts, dark...

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© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: improvisational, music,
Form: Lyric
The Crescendo of the Void
A linguistic symphony composed of superior vocabulary intricately braided into a formidable fabric of such dimensions as to consume the accessible volume approaching a coherent...

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© Jim Musser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: improvisational, education, language, nonsense, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Hands, Your History
How I took for granted, thee!
Now, reaching an age, I began to ponder.
Their truly outstanding history.
Hands that once with grand wonderment 
stared at crayon colors.

Tanned,...

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Categories: improvisational, imagery, memory,
Form: Verse
The Mhs Class of '77 Chapter Two
sans to stand proud and tall 
   (all five and a half feet, but blunted maximum height 
   topped off just...

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Categories: improvisational, age, celebration, class, education,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
Fork git about spooner hiz ham

And join (singing the words 
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by...

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Categories: improvisational, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Trusted Non Trumpeting Flora and Fauna Emerge Out
Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019

Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate air
more particularly otter...

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Categories: improvisational, adventure, angel, animal, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Family Jazz Farmers
I am reading Wendell Berry stories
again,
still,
today.

And notice
over these past several weeks
he unfolds two bipolar themes.

Berry is,
was,
a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer
of organic hospitality.
His protagonists grow on...

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Categories: improvisational, dark, education, farm, light,
Form: Political Verse
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem...

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Categories: improvisational, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
A Piece of Cake
Clickety clackety
Queen Marie Antoinette
"Cake let them eat", she said
When they'd no bread

Due to her callousness,
Improvisational
French mob decided then
"Off with her head"


09.02.2021...

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Categories: improvisational, french,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Why Systems Comfort
What do healthy systems,
naturally spirited,
ecologically enlightened
and ego-politically empowered swell

Wellness
anthro-economic networks
wonder,
often wander around
what do wealthy mindbody systems do
when the Body squarely says
"I'm doing all I can...

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Categories: improvisational, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs