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


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: nearest, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Do You Remember
Somewhere in a dream, 
Serene and blissful from the start
It comes to me again
The two of us in love, and eagerly alone
Breathlessly naive', and blissfully...

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Categories: nearest,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: nearest, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: nearest, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism
Playground
Playground…

Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...

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Categories: nearest, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Masnavi



Premium Member Sweet Summer Night
The hot cars slowly wend their way down Mandalay boulevard. Young men whistle and honk at the pretty girls walking away from the beach and...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nearest, romantic love, vacation,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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Categories: nearest, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member On Four Walls
Their young strong-willed son,
ever resourceful,
has been given "time out" for bad behavior.
There is no noise coming from the room.
After two hours, 
the mother grows concerned.
Why...

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Categories: nearest, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Way Back Then When I Was Ten
I was shot by Cupid's tainted dart
And puppy love awakened my sleeping heart
Tried to impress with exaggerated tales
Mark the box letters sent through the mail

Hunted...

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Categories: nearest, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bush Fire
A BUSH FIRE  
               
One scorching afternoon,
A sudden splintering sound...

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Categories: nearest, animal, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Katana
Sharpest were the words 
and the eyes and the elbows
of those nearest, not dearest,
and nearly as sharp the words 
and the eyes and the elbows
of...

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Categories: nearest, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem For the Ladies - Now a Collaboration
My bladder behaves through the night
Each morning my flow is just right.... 
But throughout the day 
There is hell to pay
It's bursting; I cross my...

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Categories: nearest, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Forget About Her
I can’t breathe.
It isn’t because I’m upset, 
Because I’m not.
Not upset.
I rarely am anymore.
No, that’s wrong.
I am,
Sometimes,
But it’s not painful
Like it used to be
Back when...

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Categories: nearest, cry, depression, girl, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Place in the Sun
I was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.

The observatory was...

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Categories: nearest, fantasy, imagery, leaving, mystery,
Form: Couplet
The Battle For Tiger Hill
It was  nineteen ninety nine
a battle was about to begin
between the Indian Army
with the soldiers from Pakistan

My name is Yogendra Singh Yadav
a grenadier awarded...

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Categories: nearest, history,
Form: Rhyme

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