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Best Inch Poems

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


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: inch, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: inch, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise. 

An...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inch, life,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Cookie Jar
Standing on tippy toes
Top shelf 
Reaching
Stretching
Finger tips edging the jar forward
Imagining the taste of chocolate chips on my tongue
Yumm mom's chewy delicious wait till Saturday...

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Categories: inch, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Poet Destroyer
"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"

Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...

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Categories: inch, absence, courage, me, missing
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: inch, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beech Tree
Oh how I hate the winter where my limbs are exposed and seen
I just adore the spring time, I wear my dress of emerald green

Draping...

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Categories: inch, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inch, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The 50's
There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw...

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Categories: inch, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Cats Cats Cats
on...                        ...

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Categories: inch, pets,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: inch, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: inch, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: inch, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: inch, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jim the Lumberjack
Jim was a lumberjack from Borehamwood
A chainsaw mishap took off his manhood
His Love life was a mess
He now suffers from stress
So he made himself one...

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Categories: inch, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs