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


Robot Revolution
Abandon futile attempts to run
Behold the process has begun
Step toward your darkest fear
Let’s flip the switch to a new frontier

Penetrating deep within
Evacuate your mortal sin
This...

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Categories: micro, computer, dark, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: micro, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: micro, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme
On God, Faith, Evolution and the Evil In This World
[This excerpt from a memoir I wrote 20 years ago seems sadly apropos given the recent mass murders and bombings]

This then is where my faith...

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Categories: micro, allah, angst, appreciation, evil,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Tomorrow and Yesterday
I tried to look for Heaven
It was nowhere to be found
There were many people dying
all laying on the ground

It wasn’t just one country
The big and...

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Categories: micro, angst, christian, god,
Form: Quatrain



America, Oh America
AMERICA, OH AMERICA

America, oh America, the mother of Exiles,
Mighty woman with a torch,
Towers high as a top notch
Whose flame is the imprisoned fire
With conquering limbs...

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Categories: micro, 1st grade, america, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Mini Me
Dive right in, come one and all, into the mini-me of a microcosmic mall,
Protons and electrons in a balanced brawl, with neutrons standing tall…

Quarks and...

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Categories: micro, creation, metaphor, universe,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Day On the Farm
"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya......

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Categories: micro, farm, myth,
Form: Prose
The Darkroom
Is it not enough that you’ve hung me beside
myself from your fraying rope - tendered by 

graying wooden clips with rubber fingers?
Must we really soak...

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Categories: micro, introspectionme, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interalphabetnet Sex Stew
Primose path leads to the slaughter of American
dream delete pause proficiency with internetty
webbegone after thoughts of yahoo googleyed 
interred intricacies that shed benign capsules of
...

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Categories: micro, analogy, change, education, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind Cryptic Doors
Clumsily tripping, over our own feet
Sometimes, minds aren't meant to meet
perhaps we're off just a micro beat
thoughts obscured, behind glass covered in sleet

Sure there are...

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Categories: micro, angst, appreciation, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Aspie
1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul...

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Categories: micro, emotions, growing up, introspection,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Good Intentions
Dragon is such an adorable and, yes, kindhearted, dear, little soul.
But he has a few, very, important lessons, that he has yet to learn.
Like what...

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Categories: micro, care, education, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Waste of Space
I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden...

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Categories: micro, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Poetic Crimes
 Poetic Crimes 

On and on
they go
the vaccine makes three heads
and sixteen toes

An elephant trunk
and five giraffe necks
not to mention a terrible
desire for Bill Gates...

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Categories: micro, america, angst, crazy, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things