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Best Ninety Nine Poems

Below are the all-time best Ninety Nine poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ninety nine poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Ninety Nine Shades of Blue Red Flames
Gliding hands dancing on your spine
Playing melodies in your hair
Soft kisses delights in making discoveries
I see your soul clearly

I seize your face gently reflections shine...

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Categories: ninety nine, beautiful, beauty, dance, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: ninety nine, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: ninety nine, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Spirit of Swan Lake

     " In titanium haze of love,
             truth is...

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Categories: ninety nine, angst, betrayal, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Solar Eclipse
Across the sky the Sun could see
The Moon approach, with nervous glee
A longtime coming, an empirical fact
Ninety-Nine years to be exact

The Sun stood ready, her...

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© Kitty Lou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ninety nine, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Columbine
That tragic day the school bells tolled
in April nineteen ninety-nine:
the massacre at Columbine,
the rage of Harris and Klebold.

Some say that Harris was a cold
and grandiose...

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© Evan Bowen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ninety nine, death, school, teenage,
Form: Sestina
My Creator
Embryo formed.
Fetus became.
A girl baby I am.

My creator I do not know.  Procreation states that ovum and sperm conceives.  My question is how...

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Categories: ninety nine, allah, america, animal, arabic,
Form: Free verse
His Story
I've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel...

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Categories: ninety nine, anti bullying, bullying, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Categories: ninety nine, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
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: ninety nine, history,
Form: Rhyme
Wearing Depends In the Deep End
I am whatever you say I am 
currently I'm the eyes of the world
it's what they discovered when
daddy tied a pork chop around my neck...

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Categories: ninety nine, deep, education, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightie Night
I love my diaphanous nightie
It’s sexy and sheer- its quite flighty
But it’s a shocking disgrace
Scant material and lace
Cost hubby ninety-nine pounds ninety!

15th February 2015...

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Categories: ninety nine, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ode To a Gargoyle
I pass you several times a week
down at the Cheapside junction
your name defines the job you do
but you perform no function.
No drainage from the upper...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ninety nine, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Domestic-Clean Vaccine
Ladies - Gents, hear this that I may increase your leisure benefits!
All who have labored for cleanliness, for a spic and span to savor,
please allow...

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Categories: ninety nine, funny, home, imagination, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Are Not Real
I wonder if my older brothers recall
how big my eyes got, how I begged "STOP," 	
how distant I was for days 
after they held me...

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Categories: ninety nine, childhood, fear, myth,
Form: Free verse

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