Best Notched Poems
Below are the all-time best Notched poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of notched poems written by PoetrySoup members
Maudlin MaryModeled by the skilled and clumsy hands
of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness,
a penniless waif appears ...
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Categories:
notched, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Freedom's Rare Sanctuarylike a grumpy ogre the twisted old tree stood guard
notched scraggy boughs reached out in fierce surety
naught had ever compromised its task
in its dutiable charge
the...
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Categories:
notched, courage, england, history, magic,
Form:
Suzette Prime
Remember Remember MumRemember remember Mum when we were small.
Holding hands as we learnt to walk,
Teaching us how to talk.
On the swing you'd push us high
Till our feet...
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Categories:
notched, age, birthday, daughter, happy
Form:
Free verse
Welcome BackWelcome back to you my misery
played out for all the world to see
bright lights and caricature circling
even buzzards want a piece of me
Shifts shred...
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Categories:
notched, absence, music, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
An Alphabet of Instruments - AbcA is for Accordion, squeezing air with bellows
B is for Banjo, five strings plucked by bluegrass fellows
C is for Clavichord, keyboard with a metal sound
D...
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Categories:
notched, 11th grade, music,
Form:
ABC
Land Is a LoomLand Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song...
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Categories:
notched, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Crackling FireCome all ye faithful and gather around the fire place
Relieve your stress if good cheer you wish to embrace
Arctic weather can bring frost bite upon...
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Categories:
notched, winter,
Form:
Acrostic
Valentine MatteCountless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentially...
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Categories:
notched, adventure, age, animal, body,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Six Men Dead - Part 1© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)
At the headwaters of the Red Woods Branch,
near a gentle slope on...
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Categories:
notched, history,
Form:
Ballad
Hidden and Fallen In DisrepairMossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone
No family members left to maintain is known
Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair
Deeply weatherworn and embraced there
This...
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Categories:
notched, death, family, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Eggplant Transplant ExperimentThey've been working on this for years
Inside the government
To try a replace the brain of man
With that of a purple eggplant
This idea to me sounds...
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Categories:
notched, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Assumption EndangersThis is a anecdote about not taking things for granted....
Seeing how we often jump to conclusions based on wrong assumptions...
A top notched news photographer was...
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Categories:
notched, community, funny, hilarious, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
China Squash Open 2015The Bund China Squash Open 2015
The Bund China Squash Open 2015 was recently played out in Shanghai…
It was the first squash major as...
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Categories:
notched, appreciation, celebration, inspirational, magic,
Form:
Narrative
1mdb Walking Free1MDB Walking Free
Talk about living charmed lives for some people in positions of power.....
The latest involve news of the latest appointments of certain financial ...
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Categories:
notched, america, betrayal, community,
Form:
Free verse
Cocreation PsalmEarth Time's song and dance
through nonexisting space,
my song
our PolyCulturing Opera,
time's co-passion story,
history and cultures of existing place as space.
Time's Blacker premillennial face
haunts richer wisdom
but often...
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Categories:
notched, adventure, birth, destiny, earth,
Form:
Free verse