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Best Left Out Poems

Below are the all-time best Left Out poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of left out poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Cinder Girl
An ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames...

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Categories: left out,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Where the Sycamore Grew
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Categories: left out, autumn, family, house, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Twilight Aurora
Like an interrupted dream
shadows of the one 
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.

No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: left out, absence, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet Who Never Was
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...

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Categories: left out, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: left out, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: left out, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: left out, giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Mother Tree
The Mother Tree

I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...

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Categories: left out, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Alice Sweet Alice
~Alice Sweet Alice~

        *Like Sisters*
   Everyday -- Holding Hands 
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
  ...

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Categories: left out, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: left out, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: left out, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: left out, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: left out, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

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Categories: left out, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: left out, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs