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Best Mastery Poems

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


Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: mastery, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dissolving Heart
“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new...

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Categories: mastery, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the...

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Categories: mastery, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raspberry Kisses
Raspberry Kisses


Silent kisses throughout the air.
Just like the wild raspberry affair. 


Nowhere to know how,
Can they be found!
Now they are here,
Only to me you appear,...

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Categories: mastery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Dancing Dragonflies
I watched them across the water prance,

Back and forth in sprightly dance.

Liveried in emerald green, others had a sapphire sheen.

It was natural choreography, by tiny...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mastery, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Happened To You
you were larger than life
love maker
norm breaker
praise taker
soul shaker
what happened to you?

epic embodied were you
every word: a spell, a hue
made make believe come true
ancient lore,...

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Categories: mastery, absence, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Angels and Lyres:
Angels and lyres have me spellbound,
Is this the garden of Eden that I've found?
I find myself floating in a musical stream,
Filled with nine angels weaving...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mastery, angel, love, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Unseen, As Swirling Ebbs of Time Plod Along
I feel very privileged to have been able to contribute something small to a second collaboration with poet extraordinaire, Robert Lindley, whose mastery of all...

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Categories: mastery, allegory, analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For the Love of Lexicon
My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped...

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Categories: mastery, dedication, history, passion,
Form: Epic
The Malkavian Part 1 Perfect Version
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
Drained and defeated, his family finally...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mastery, confusion, corruption, dark, lonely,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Sonnet To a Fine Poetess
I know a very fine poet, a dear colleague, who’s so exquisitely talented and bright,
And has a superb facility with words and themes making all...

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Categories: mastery, dedication, inspiration, joy, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Master's Plan
The air that I breathe, Your mastery 
Where the water ends, land begins
Flowers engulfed by the dew 
What a breathtaking view
The birds in full flight
All...

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Categories: mastery, faith, religion
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Sedated Sin
I feel her wake, and I quake
Afraid...I'll make the same mistake
For goodness sake
My hands....
how they shake

I hear her low moan, and I groan
She'll rise from...

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Categories: mastery, dark, deep, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Alicia Keys
A star awoken, of dreams freely spoken 
All equipped – musicianship 
Unbound to conventional forms, to so adorn
A woman’s worth
Au naturel
Transcendence of thought, unveiled soul
Of...

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Categories: mastery, celebrity,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Art of Morning
Upon rising, awakened by 
ripening scent teasing my nose, 
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mastery, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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