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Best Minus Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: minus, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Winter's Antidote
O Winter, why this desolation? Trees, once verdant now stand bare
Flowers, long in hibernation; clouds that frown with ominous stare,
Bleak winds chill the rain-soaked bones...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minus, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Paintings Call My Name
My art delights me, covers my walls.
Smiling, dancing, laughing magical beings.
Reminding me how much I love to choose colors.
Appreciated by no one as much as...

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Categories: minus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: minus, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I...

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Categories: minus, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl,
Form: Narrative



You'Re Welcome
I seen the potential in you when they didn't, I knew what you were capable of, I envisioned you as a queen, helped you to...

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Categories: minus, change, feelings, hurt,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Free Falling
"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding...

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Categories: minus, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa the Grinch and the FBI
'Twas the night before Christmas and it was heavily snowing
The windows in the house rattled with the wind that was blowing
Santa looked out through the...

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Categories: minus, america, christmas, snow, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finding Beauty In Life
I find beauty in the unkempt places ~~
Sticky beehives with perfectly formed combs,
A child's playground sea of dirty faces,
An overgrown garden with ugly gnomes,
Sagging gables...

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Categories: minus, beautiful, beauty, places,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Fun Observations On Poetry


Like hard, dry toast, with no aroma,
Poetry minus heart and soul, puts me in 
an endless coma!


My brain short circuits, the longer the poem!
I get...

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Categories: minus, humor, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fifteen Fabulous Felines Pet
A cacophony of cats in my life.
Not one or two, but fifteen!
Each,who along with joy,
brought sadness and strife!
All shapes and sizes with grand
and most loving...

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Categories: minus, cat, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror, In The Line Of Fire
Mirrors seize and free; joys and fears; wherefore,
lost toss and turns while hope waits for morning,
gullible holds keys, knowledge opens door,

Faults are the measures by...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minus, analogy, games, imagery, life,
Form: Villanelle
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply...

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Categories: minus, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...

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Categories: minus, america, history, math, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Another Man's Clothes
The idea behind this poem came from reading a poem of the same title, written by Richard “Canadian Man-god” Lamoureux. Now, his poem went in...

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Categories: minus, games, life, lust,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things