Best Metro Poems
Below are the all-time best Metro poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of metro poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Adventures of Jim the Trim- At the MetroJim the Trim’s been watching too much video
The kind that caused rise in his libido
Mind still on a femme fatale
Was brought to the hospital
His front...
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Categories:
metro, funny, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Vanity Thy Name Is Metro-ManOh Vanity Thy Name is Metro-Man
At the gym,
admiring his bulging biceps in a giant mirror,
he reaches for his ever-ready smart phone
and stops to make a...
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Categories:
metro, men, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Leaves of the DeadLeaves of the Dead
Les feuilles mortes
They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my...
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Categories:
metro, french, imagery, music, paris,
Form:
Lyric
Wall StreetSet upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....
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Categories:
metro, political, slam, social, war,
Form:
Epic
Cloudless SkiesLooked out my window this morning
Damn.. another cloudy day
Falling further and further behind
This life's become all work, no play
Where the Corporation is heaven
Our CEO...
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Categories:
metro, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Lyric
Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died ForYou knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want...
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Categories:
metro, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form:
Epic
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist KindUnquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...
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Categories:
metro, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
metro, death, memory, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
My Piano TeacherPiano Teacher
Adored her timely teaching skills
Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed!
even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me...
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Categories:
metro, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
The Story of Joshua BellThey don't speak
those walls
only absorb
scraps of life
the stench of urine
lucky pennies
desperate art
and a ringing clamber of voices
that move with every rush of air
down winding subway...
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Categories:
metro, art, introspection, life, music,
Form:
Free verse
The Spry MetropolisTower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive. Scramble bustle earth's
ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony
Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.
See a...
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Categories:
metro, adventure,
Form:
Blank verse
An Incomplete SearchI went searching for-
that little child who cuddled in her mother's arms,
those tender feet that jumped in rain,
that little heart which melted for...
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Categories:
metro, absence, death, fate, goodbye,
Form:
Free verse
Flash Flood Warningaka
Terry's Rush Hour Tube Trauma
A voice rose from a burning bush,
"O feel the contours of my tush!
Ounce for ounce
Cheeks will bounce
With just an itty-bitty push!"...
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Categories:
metro, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Passion For FashionPASSION FOR FASHION
We live
We continue to pretend
We copy
Because that’s in fashion
Painted Face
Leaving no trace
Fiftyish women,
Pretending to be
Forever Thirty,
Obsessed by age
Not finding grace
Men from Metro-sexual
To Retro-sexual
Proving...
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Categories:
metro, fashion, funny, humorous, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Government Sales Tax GstGovernment Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has...
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Categories:
metro, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form:
Free verse