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Best Leaky Poems

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


Premium Member The Same Leaky Old Boat
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Make the most of it
Everyone has a specific number of days here on earth
But no...

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Categories: leaky, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Miracle
Where the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where...

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Categories: leaky, childhood, life,
Form: Haibun
Misled
Nor thunder in the dark, nor flash, nor fire,
nor other pyrotechnics that, they say,
accompany all such events, nor dire
phantasmagorias, going astray

in the unconsciousness. I’m all...

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Categories: leaky, death, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member What Lurks Within
What Lurks Within

I picture in my mind an old colonial room,
With a door to the garden where my flowers can bloom.
 
A window in the...

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Categories: leaky, imagination, places, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Ask You This
“If I have to cry to keep you, I will keep weeping.”- The Temptations

If our atmosphere
Becomes a shattered animosity

If our cumulus clouds
Become wrecking balls against...

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Categories: leaky, friendship, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Poetry Keeps a Day
Poetry will not keep you warm
Not like a cat nestled between legs
But, it hunts down manic thoughts
Gnashes the static till the mind gives 
Chases a...

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Categories: leaky, depression, desire, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: leaky, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Melting Pot
The humid air sweats streaming curls down the toddler’s flush cheeks like Fusilli hot from the stove. The golden ringlets cling to her forehead, bouncing...

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Categories: leaky, childhood,
Form: Prose
Don'T Even Ask: Collaboration With Daniel Turner
Have you ever had one of those days 
On the wrong side of the bed, bad days 
When everything right went wrong 

Cause the ding...

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Categories: leaky, funny, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Young Man's Game
Slipping on tinkles ain't easy my boy
When zippers get stuck it can be a pain
The thing that I hold once gave me such joy
Now it's...

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Categories: leaky, age, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Shredded Life
Your silence only 
ampliphies the lies
And keeps problems and 
doubts well fed
Comfort and trust
quickly sicken and die
What's left is a shell of a 
memory
a life...

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© Zaida Ruiz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leaky, husband, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Friend
Jane was lost in the woods
And Ann waited for years
The sun was scorching above
And feet embedded in cruel mud.

She waited for Jane, her friend
Because she...

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Categories: leaky, friend, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Step
As I sit back at watch the world become depraved
I think about the one foot I have in this instagrave
The countless angles, of shoot after...

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© Tahj Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leaky, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Twin Builders
TWIN    BUILDERS


Took a break  from  years of research
And worked  in a  small town building a new church.
Local priest...

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Categories: leaky, adventure, me,
Form: Couplet
Little By Little
Little by little the red bricks begin to fall apart 
he is getting ready to take the staircase to heaven
she watches from a window the...

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Categories: leaky, appreciation, family, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs