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Best Metabolic Poems

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


Metabolic Milieu
Burnished, bronze steeples
Early-Autumn, hoary frost
Blanching, falling leaves...

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Categories: metabolic, nature
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Inclination of Glass Cannons
Shuttling beyond the lay
Of the land that may
End at the water,
Splash and fish, tide and otter.

War birds knocking stars from Heaven,
Wolf packs moving, six or...

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Categories: metabolic, dark, future, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
The Perfectionist Is Listening
The Perfectionist is Listening

the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
presently...

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Categories: metabolic, slam, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After School Jam Session
How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped...

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Categories: metabolic, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets
Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and...

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Categories: metabolic, animal, education, nature,
Form: Verse



Bad Breeding
the list that was a fist
a) it is possible
b) it is inevitable
chained to a million pleasures
an astonishing compendium of compulsions
honed bright with a fool's ardor
the...

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Categories: metabolic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Delirium Dust
Delirium Dust


In the corner of my room you’ll find many a decentralizing delirium dust
Where my mind does consume peripheral visions of malevolent distrust
Deprivations that entomb...

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Categories: metabolic, identity, psychological, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Wistful Woebegone Yesteryear
Perhaps like a lightning
bolt of clear out of the blue
rigor mortis (tenon and
three decades hence)
two thousand fifty nine if you
count from January 13th 2019, adieu

attest...

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Categories: metabolic, dream, father, hair, introspection,
Form: Bio
Apologize
An apology is a letter we write with our hearts to those that we know we’ve wronged so that we will be able to make...

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Categories: metabolic, analogy, anti bullying, feelings,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Our World Is Crying
Our planet is weeping, and faith is at low and vacillate.
A severe risk as a result of the global warming challenge 
Concerns have arisen as...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metabolic, adventure, allusion, angst, animal,
Form: Villanelle
Wait Loss

Patient Hope is on a stoic decline
The celluloid tread mill 
is crybaby set 
on an aorta sob incline —  
A cardio faithless, vertical whine

Shouldering...

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Categories: metabolic, metaphor, spiritual, wisdom, word
Form: Free verse
Metamorphic - a Change For the Better
And did you really know before
What on earth is a meta for?
It makes you understand, I think
What changes when you have a drink
Another example might...

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© Mike Youds  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metabolic, funny, imagination, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Magic Ruins
in the rusty tide animating bones
of deluded gods reaching for the lie
etched on eroded steles in dead lisps
licking flames of seers tossing guts
filled with blue...

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© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metabolic, art, christian, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow Globe Refreshment
Presenting to the emergency room, patient "BB,"
a dad who swallowed a snow globe carelessly.

Out of ALC, voices crying, "YOLO,"
PO, he took a big gulp of...

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Categories: metabolic, addiction, body, break up,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Day After
Bleeping like neon
screens off and on
melancholy of the viewer
glory of IT 

Electronic health record
now online
like the Terminator series
humanity heading
towards point of no return

Logged on
all the...

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Categories: metabolic, computer, health, internet,
Form: Free verse

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