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Best Next To Last Poems

Below are the all-time best Next To Last poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of next to last poems written by PoetrySoup members


Imagine
Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer...

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Categories: next to last, fantasy, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown Stray
Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming...

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Categories: next to last, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gymnasts and Poets
 Gymnasts and Poets

Poetry writing, a practiced passion,
Gymnastics, practiced poetry in motion,
Choose your form with the first line.
Move quickly into the mood,
directly spoken, intimated,
free verse...

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Categories: next to last, analogy, poetry, sports, ,
Form: Free verse
Searching
Unlike the story of the three wise men traveling the 
same path searching for their new born king.
Three men , traveler's, were doing the same...

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Categories: next to last, life,
Form: I do not know?
Urban Legends 101
Everybody knows that most urban legends are a bunch of folklores or whatever, especially Bigfoot (aka: “Sasquatch). Urban legends are the only ones that people...

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Categories: next to last, science, science fiction, people,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Cemetery At the Old Home Place
The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen

The fence still stands in...

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Categories: next to last, death, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Couple
Their lawn chairs in the sun
Outside a standard door--
They are considered nonproductive.
They passed their buying power
For the next to last measured lot.

The old man putters...

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Categories: next to last, age,
Form: Free verse
One Art
The art of loving isn’t hard to master
So many things seem filled with love.
To be lost in a love forever.

Love more everyday. Accept the disaster
Of...

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Categories: next to last, beautiful,
Form: Villanelle
Searching
Unlike the story  of the three wise men traveling the 
same path, searching for their newborn  king, 
three men, travelers were doing the...

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Categories: next to last, christian,
Form: Verse
Pardon Mine Allegiance To Infidelity
Unfaithful marital transgressions
self admitted indictment,
crime and punishment,
no longer think high lee
entailing no mister re: demeanors,
I searingly weathered

(George by bushed, albeit thankfully,
no unwanted child left behind),
nonetheless...

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Categories: next to last, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Listening Heart
I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will...

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Categories: next to last, christian, death, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Buried In Backwoods
The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen

The fence still stands in...

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Categories: next to last, death, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Pale the Poem - An Echo Poem
How Pale the Poem!
(An Echo Poem) (1)

Are poems lovely as night's stars?
Aren't all more fireflies viewed in jars?
*
*
Faint points of light man barely sees
now (gift...

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Categories: next to last, humor, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
A Familiar New Arrival In Complete Disbelief
look at me
water shoes on
beach chair buried in the sand
feeling like an overtly energetic six year old again
acting all shy as she grabs my hand...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: next to last, appreciation, blessing, growth, how
Form: Free verse
Revolution Will
The revolution will come bit-by-bit
freedoms for securities, a stock split

The revolution will not be streamed
things aren't always what they seem

The revolution will occur in silent...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: next to last, imagination, social, tribute, uplifting,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things