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Best Iota Poems

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


Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: iota, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme



Gimme a Brake
A UFO went to land in Dakota
But the brakes didn't work one iota.
        It didn't take long
 ...

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Categories: iota, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Cosmic Dust
Since time immemorial across the Universe—
Traces of my vapor, my dust trails, my footprints, my being
Light up the skies of innumerable planets etching themselves
Indelibly in...

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Categories: iota, adventure, beautiful, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Obama Rhapsody - Potd
His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's...

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Categories: iota, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A New Girl
The kindly old man, had become irritable
Over the death of his wife
Not one iota of happiness left
Those golden years, ripped from his life
She had been,...

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Categories: iota, animal, best friend, cheer
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Crossroads To Heaven
My heart stopped, you see
Three times, thanks to foolishness ...
But within the horror of it all I learned something ... extraordinary
And the following is, for...

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Categories: iota, appreciation, faith, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member King Vlad Redux - Second Cold War
King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions...

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Categories: iota, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Faces, Cheeks, and Eyes
The air thick, like a sweet sticky syrup
Sirens wail, polluting the air with chaos
Voices screaming, obscenities, obscure messages
All the while little children play, in pothole...

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Categories: iota, angst, life,
Form: Imagism
The Day I Learned
The day I learned,
you were in love with
her, 
I cried.
The day I learned,
none of it was real,
I cried for weeks.
The day I learned,
you never loved...

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Categories: iota, addiction, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Drug of Choice
Man-made drugs
Induce an altered state
A psychedelic paradise
Of euphoria
A burst of colors
Impaired reality of dreams
A fix of blissful forgetfulness
Married to ecstasy

What need have I of these?
When...

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Categories: iota, addiction, drug,
Form: Free verse
Word Hoard
They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it...

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Categories: iota, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest
The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest

Into the utter darkness of cold oceans dwelling deepest,
there is far beyond any glimmer of hope an outer limit
that...

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Categories: iota, allegory, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Sat and Pondered
I sat and pondered the things I’d like to forget.
There have been some bad times -
Lost love, both romantic and familial,
betrayals by a few I...

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Categories: iota, life, memory, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Divine Freedom Enjoyed
Once I was condemned to die eternally
Found guilty without iota of a doubt
Showing human nature at its sinful best…
…yet, God made me free!*

The Saviour with...

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Categories: iota, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Poor White Trash
Some say
 they were pure white trash
 and the rich took a glancing pass
 as we walked the streets bared a....
But not one of us...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iota, anti bullying, power, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things