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Best Metrics Poems

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


Virtual Life Metrics
I spend time with a friend 
well, a pseudo-friend 
an acquaintance of sorts 
no, I guess he'd be a friend, 
****, who knows 
one of...

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Categories: metrics, friend, world,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Giant
Summer rain, melting Arctics
and the lipids lining the nerves
in your brain. These are the metrics
of our times. Mere resolve

is not enough to take care
along the...

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Categories: metrics, city, mirror, mountains, pain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Poets At Play
Poets at Play

I played with words today –
They called to me 
“Come out and play with us!”
Childhood companions
Building rhythms like treehouse forts –
Playhouses of analogy...

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Categories: metrics, childhood, fun, metaphor, poems,
Form: Free verse
Poem From Scratch
“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.” -Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to...

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Categories: metrics, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Perfect Love, Optimal Life
Perfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.

Could this perfection of synergetic...

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Categories: metrics, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member My Friend the Wise Doctor
Eu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.

U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.

Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain

My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as...

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Categories: metrics, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right...

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Categories: metrics, adventure, earth, life, light,
Form: Political 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: metrics, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Centimeter
It is the same as 2.54 inches.
It is part of the metric system,
Which is also called a SI unit.
This type of measure is more accurate,
Than...

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Categories: metrics, caregiving, childhood, education, children,
Form: Rhyme
Ten Up
#84

TEN UP

10^0  

Ten to the zero is really just one,
positive power, its a whole, not a part.
We don’t move from the decimal,
it’s just where...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metrics, math, mentor,
Form: Rhyme
A Long Fairytale of My Life Part I
Crossing the big fat bridge,
I reached to the land l wondered ever,
Seeing the amazed beauty l got shakened fever.
Well cultured and seemed as if grown...

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© Madhavi Sp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metrics, allah, beautiful, blessing, cute
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Taotree of Good and Notsomuch
BodyLove feels like muscular energy, 
while AgapeMindLove emerges weirdly in reverse;
mind fluency, fertility, health…

Not in any way dissonant with BodyLove,
ideally
to grow maturing health also ecologically...

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Categories: metrics, community, creation, culture, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Black History
It amazes me
They say all men were created equally 
But that’s denied throughout history
Theirs starts with constitutions revolutions and bravery
They tell us ours is gangs...

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Categories: metrics, africa, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cocreation Psalm
Earth Time's song and dance
through nonexisting space,
my song
our PolyCulturing Opera,
time's co-passion story,
history and cultures of existing place as space.

Time's Blacker premillennial face
haunts richer wisdom
but often...

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Categories: metrics, adventure, birth, destiny, earth,
Form: Free verse
The Dollar Worth a Windows Mite
What's a dollar worth?
Well years ago it was worth a dollar.
Now it's worth a lot closer to two cents than a dollar.
The reason....www....can't be put...

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Categories: metrics, assonance, christian, computer, internet,
Form: Free verse

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