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Best Literati Poems

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


Better Than Gold
BETTER    THAN     GOLD

International literati pay homage
To our hero’s literary courage
Matching  Homer’s  and Cicero’s of old:
Dr. Ram’s...

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Categories: literati, dedicationwords,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member Utter Silken Threads
Listen to the forest in the depth
of one’s mind and craft
arresting soundscapes
from within.
Gaze into a spectral morning
dazzling  anew and watch
those scales that slither
from one’s...

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Categories: literati, care, color, creation, deep,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Sunday Morning Programme
Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer...

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Categories: literati, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Imagism
Open Closed
Open Closed





 Open letter addressed by me to myself as  

             ...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literati, introspection, me, me, red,
Form: Blank verse
Simon Sonnet
Simon´s Sonnet. . 

Simon is full of glissandi and spondee today
and writes poetry for the literati; that is ok, 
it is good to know wonderful...

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Categories: literati, humor,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member I Love Soup - Especially Poetry Soup
My thanks to my fans and fannies on Soup

    You're appreciated by this old poop

       ...

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Categories: literati, on writing and words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Vignette-A Chilean Red
Ricardo wrote poetry with much flair
the literati later,were to declare
'Twenty Love Poems & A song of Despair'
And his 'Residence on Earth'
a Nobel prize to reflect...

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Categories: literati, people
Form: Narrative
Carolingian Minuscule
Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a...

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Categories: literati, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Oceananigans I and Ii
I.

Ode the thrill of a tango
curled in clutches sleek

Elegance, a prerequisite
Add on a spun euphoria

Nimble is a turgid swoon!

Arms conduct to the aria
New skin, feels...

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Categories: literati, addiction,
Form: Ode
Self Actulization
S ince I have been separated for years.                 ...

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Categories: literati, adventure, blessing, poetry, power,
Form: Acrostic
Nauti 'N Nice
No penance need be paid by the insular artisan
admonished for seeking an oral platinum quota.
Under furlough! Tuck their perfume in a bureau, 
then intermittently release...

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Categories: literati, art,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Sweetest Thank You and My Warmest Hug
To those poets who guided me along
that long, arduous road to success:
I sincerely give them my sweetest 
" Thank you  " and my warmest...

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Categories: literati, friendship, inspirational, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member History Will Judge Me
History will judge me I'm finally told,
when greatness will be mine to behold;
this naked truth has always reflected my intent...
nobody has ever been able to...

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Categories: literati, dedication, history, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Pirated Words
I stole this poem
with cutlass and eyes
words lusted and trusted 
so I took of this prize

it's chests of golden
it's flashing jeweled verbs
and left letters worthless
to...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literati, adventure, imagination, success, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Clean Up the Spills of Ills
The gulf oil spill… drilled from the depth of ills
A battle between money and men, power and perils
A quest to depopulate the world by the...

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Categories: literati, dedication, natural disasters, people,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs