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Best Manly Poems

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


Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: manly, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: manly, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Kind
I will not dim my light so you can shine
I will not still my voice so you can scream
I will not quench my blaze so...

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Categories: manly, truth, woman,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Her Soft Canal
The powder of white sand holds her flesh
close to his musk pelvis
as she gasps with the murmured waves
trembling on the coast
of a fragrant mouth against...

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Categories: manly, passion, places, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Body, Your Touch
Your feelings in a group of touring innocence
travel up North towards trust and sincerity
in sweet submissive care like a carefully rubbed suede.
You put day light...

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Categories: manly, emotions, i love you,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Letters From Afghanistan (Cowritten By James Fraser)
Dear Carolyn:
Another letter from another tour
In this place in the sand they call Helmand
This will be my last, for you can be sure
To never look...

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Categories: manly, life, loss, warjoy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lady of My Life
Her heartbeat echoes like a love moan in my mind,
summoning centuries of refined romanticism soulfully enshrined,
the contralto of her voice a fillatio upon the cock...

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Categories: manly, beauty, desire, devotion, dream,
Form: Ode
Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: manly, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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Categories: manly, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member There Is Beauty
There’s the beauty of the sunset
At the closing of the day
And the beauty of the sunrise
When sunbeams come out to play

There’s the beauty of the...

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Categories: manly, beauty, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: manly, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jukebox Gigolo
Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a...

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Categories: manly, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Message To the Lover of the Poet
To be in love with a poet
Is not an easy thing
Try as you might, you will never
Live up to his dream

For the poet isn’t content
With...

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Categories: manly, passion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The View
THE VIEW 
          (SADLY)

I can't believe he has to be a poet
To tell you how he...

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Categories: manly, addiction, care, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Negative Love
Our eyes met 
Across the room
The sight of her
My heart went boom
 
Her shiny hair
Skin so fair
Slimline body
Shaped to stare
 
I introduce
Myself to her
Her accent...

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Categories: manly, love, passionnight, me, night,
Form: Rhyme

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