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Best In A Jam Poems

Below are the all-time best In A Jam poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of in a jam poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...

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Categories: in a jam, death, garden, literature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now
I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

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Categories: in a jam, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Suicide Masterpiece
Suicide Masterpiece

Sweatdrop
On top
Trigger pop
Written note
All I got
Hang knot
Body rot
Suicide cop

I hope not
Cry out loud
I think not
Body's hot
I am too proud
I am loved a lot
Rooftop.
Suicide bride

Heavy...

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Categories: in a jam, abuse, art, body, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: in a jam, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: in a jam, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Abandoned
I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose...

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Categories: in a jam, growing up, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house, 
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...

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Categories: in a jam, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: in a jam, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: in a jam, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
Slow Movin Tights
I'm in me bath here, with a box of red cheer, 
yeah a box of red cheer, beer's too bloody dear.
Me mind's wanderin twixt big...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a jam, me, red, women,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...

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Categories: in a jam, child, children, family, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strong Coffee Ate a Silver Spoon
Strong Coffee Ate A Silver Spoon

Strong coffee ate a silver spoon
Blind feline lapped up the spilled milk
Sweet relief cannot come too soon
I slept on sheets...

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Categories: in a jam, allegory, angst, art, break
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mouse Family's Christmas
It's Christmas Eve and through the house 
there creeps a curious little mouse.
He climbs into the big arm chair 
and finds the cookies waiting there...

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Categories: in a jam, adventure, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a jam, community,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Getting What I Really Wanted
I wanted
peanut butter and jam
But settled
for bread and butter
I wanted a puppy
but got a hamster instead
I wanted you to live forever
Until I wished you were...

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Categories: in a jam, abuse, bullying, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs