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Best Last Minute Poems

Below are the all-time best Last Minute poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last minute poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Can Resist You
Don’t even try to woo me
I can resist you
My mind is fortified
Reason screams reasons to be careful
Caution goes off in flares
My mind is alert
Aware
I can...

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Categories: last minute, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: last minute, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Whisper of Death
My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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Categories: last minute, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Hang Horses, Don'T They
Once, a strange structure appeared in a barn yard
difficult not to  notice, a scaffold to hang horses
for throwing their masters
Dumb and never protesting they...

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Categories: last minute, analogy, cute, death, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retail Christmas 2
It's one week till Christmas
And we've had enough
Of grumpy old shoppers
Complaining about stuff.

They hate the line-ups,
They hate the cashiers.
They won't be happy 
Till they have...

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Categories: last minute, funny, on work and
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Witch and the Tiger
The witch and the tiger sat on opposite sides of the moon,
Starring at each other, wondering who would eat whom

The witch was cagey, wily and...

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Categories: last minute, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titanic- The Note I Wrote
With a lump in my throat, I thought "Is this it"
I never thought I would go down with the ship
 
As I floated in the...

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Categories: last minute, farewell, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Early Mother's Day
I had much to accomplish last Saturday,
But far too many  things got in my way:

As always when awaking, I  took a pee,
then went...

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Categories: last minute, day,
Form: List
Premium Member In Response To My First Poem For Contest
Original Poem Just Desserts

I was at my favourite restaurant and had a lovely meal
If I finished all my food then a pudding was the deal
I’d...

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Categories: last minute, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Are My Whole Life There Is No Goodbyes
You Are My Whole Life
There Is No Goodbyes

Time is treasured 
Treasured and  only given once 
Once  only  to use wisely  
Use...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last minute, loss, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member - In Heaven's Pillows -
Two cute little angels
Blue beautiful eyes
To heaven they soar
The stars glow
One heart beat
One heart can burst

Quiet sleep
Loss and pain
Soft kisses
Nothing is forgotten
Two hearts beats
Two hearts...

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Categories: last minute, angel, baby, beauty, loss,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are...

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Categories: last minute, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Finally, Christmas Is Here
Finally, Christmas is here


Snowflakes are falling like diamonds they glisten
Carolers singing for all who do listen

Tinsel and garland are seen every where
Church bells are ringing...

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Categories: last minute, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Dancing With Joan Jett
Dancing with Joan Jett
Dancing close with Joan Jett is so wild, it’s 1989 and we go head to head. I’m the teen kid by the...

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Categories: last minute, dance, love, music, romance,
Form: Free verse
Trick Or Treat
( TRICK OR TREAT )

Toddlers walking the streets at night,
Running from house to house.
Images of candy fill their heads,
Costumes of all kinds abound.
Knocking on strangers...

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Categories: last minute, halloween,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs