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Best Inclined Poems

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


Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging
A funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...

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Categories: inclined, brother, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Dryad's Tale
One day while passing by a tree, I heard a sigh.
It seemed the oak could speak; I felt my knees go weak,
for like a siren’s...

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Categories: inclined, day, fantasy, me, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: inclined, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Categories: inclined, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: inclined, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: inclined, holiday
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Flip Flop
This is my black Christmas
I have nothing left to lose
I’m a bare footed white walker with no shoes
It’s okay burly guy don’t cry
I’ve found my...

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Categories: inclined, angst, appreciation, christmas, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Our Friendship For Jan Allison
You were eyes for the man I was - blind 
And always without strain you were kind 
Love from the heart with no edit of mind 
What a...

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Categories: inclined, friendship, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: inclined, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: inclined, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inclined, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: inclined, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ba Ba Bad Shepherd Boy
Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...

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Categories: inclined, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Be It Only By Dreams
With the onset of advancing age, so I find,        
A man grows weary of all mundane talk; ...

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Categories: inclined, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Hawk
On this mountaintop I sit
In solitude reclined –

For such a heightened lift
Soul-weary did I climb
The world foresworn – a bit
(My aching heart inclined)

A flowing form...

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Categories: inclined, bird, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things