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Best Legitimate Poems

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


Premium Member Pawn to Silence
I was cursed with 
ink intoxicating 
blank canvases 
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales 
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken 
     ...

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Categories: legitimate, england, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our World Changing, Not For the Better - Potd
It's not hard to see or tell this world of ours 
Isn't the same as it used to be. Granted, it has 
Never been perfect,...

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Categories: legitimate, anger, emotions, life, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Tribute To the Highlander
His talent as a Bard explodes
From an exquisite mind it flows 
Through an instrument of script
Flooding parchment reverberating
Through the psyche creating waves  
Reaching the...

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Categories: legitimate, dedication, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil,...

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Categories: legitimate, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Slipped On a Teardrop
I slipped on a teardrop
Landed in a tragedy
People with twisted minds
On random killing sprees
No legitimate reason
Fueled by ignorant hate
Politicians turning their heads
Letting guns proliferate
Unspeakable heinous...

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Categories: legitimate, america, anger, anxiety, hate,
Form: Rhyme



Farewell
5/12/17


Go ahead and tell
Hide in your shell
Or run away like a gazelle
Don't like your intent and what you try to sell
Farewell
Catch an L
Rot away and...

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Categories: legitimate, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Responding To Pain
RESPONDING TO PAIN

Why do bad things happen to good people?
A legitimate question as most answers seem feeble

Difficult circumstances, harm and pain are often inflicted
When righteous...

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Categories: legitimate, christian, inspiration, pain, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loyalty
Loyalty

Liege to a ruler or
legitimate caring.
Love and devotion that
loses the self to make
long ties to someone else.
Lasts against the storms that
life often can bring on.

4/15/17

Pleiades...

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Categories: legitimate, devotion,
Form: Verse
Corona and Social Distancing
There sneaked a micro organism into the lives of human kind from elsewhere,
Who made it intruded is still a mystery, yet it’s fate of the...

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Categories: legitimate, confidence, courage, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Beauty and Ugly- 03
Educated is not sheer civilized,
the elite is not sheer civilized
Civilization is the legitimate child of Humanity

There is no civilization in practicing religion merely
without humanity the...

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Categories: legitimate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the...

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Categories: legitimate, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Personal Prison
I live in a personal prison
Four cement walls surround me
As I sit in my own solitary confinement
Though there was no crime committed here
I must stay...

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Categories: legitimate, bullying, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: legitimate, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival...

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Categories: legitimate, caregiving, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Erotic Death
Their erotic death or life eternally,
Directed trance like powers of eyes.
Along with blindness of surprise,
Delivers humanities lustful dormancy,
Creating a new formal entity,
The power that sparks...

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Categories: legitimate, age, death, evil, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs