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
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt 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
Winter's AntidoteO 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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Categories:
minus, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
My Paintings Call My NameMy 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
Follow the Bouncing BallShe 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
In Land of CockaigneI 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 WelcomeI 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
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
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
Finding Beauty In LifeI 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)
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
Fifteen Fabulous Felines PetA 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
Mirror, In The Line Of FireMirrors 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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Categories:
minus, analogy, games, imagery, life,
Form:
Villanelle
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’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
Another Man's ClothesThe 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