Best License Poems
Below are the all-time best License poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of license poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Own Poetic LicenseSometimes when I write, I tend to stretch the truth.
Same as when I gossip; I've done that since my youth.
It's not so much deliberate, but...
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Categories:
license, humorous, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...
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Categories:
license, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
That Period of LifeOrange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?
Senses and instincts are the same...
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Categories:
license, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form:
Couplet
My Country 'Tis of TheeYou, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...
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Categories:
license, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
JackI saw him on the highway
Thought he was insane
Standing with his thumb out
In the pouring rain
I don't usually stop for hitchhikers
But something said I...
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Categories:
license, faith, life, mystery, life,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
license, angst, light, world,
Form:
Free verse
The GravediggerHe never did see a face though only a board width away,
yet remembers feeling privileged, spending those last few moments
while trying so hard to find...
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Categories:
license, pride,
Form:
Haibun
Things I Don'T UnderstandThere are things I don't understand
And would really like to know
Such as why they call it rush hour
And you move so freakin' slow
How come you...
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Categories:
license, confusion, funny,
Form:
Quatrain
All That I Am
You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...
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Categories:
license, art, books, life, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Pay No Attention To the Man Behind the CurtainBlissfully ignorant and supine,
Lost in the economy line,
voters don’t have a clue
that liberty is through.
Apathy dictates all else is fine.
People keep telling me how foolish...
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Categories:
license, political, people, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Our CourtshipHe worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship
and was now a full...
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Categories:
license, lovetime, me, time,
Form:
Narrative
Rarely Met a Better ManWe communicate without language,
Gestures,symbols,motions of a hand.
He understands my language.
I struggle with his.
But somehow we make it work.
We've lived together 14 years now,
Never thought...
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Categories:
license, friendshiphair,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...
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Categories:
license, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
license, birthday, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic JusticeI landed in Poet's Court
Caught me speeding in my Sonnet
They judged it a rhyme crime
According to the officer's pentometer
I was doing 50 in a 25...
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Categories:
license, fun, humor, judgement, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse