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Best Number Poems

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

Beatitude Number Three

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”  Matthew 5:5

Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek.”
It’s better - turn the other cheek
than let...

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Categories: number, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

tell the night to hold me -

I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: number, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric

Big Girls Do Cry

They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: number, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse

Oceana

Oceana

Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed 
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...

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Categories: number, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Dear Men

Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: number, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse

That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now

I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

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Categories: number, home,
Form: Rhyme

Hot and Cold Comes the Night

LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: number, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse

Hidden Beauty

Hidden beauty I know can dwell
within a body worn and frail.
I think of one who had been doled
great miseries, so once grown old,
his body seemed...

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Categories: number, hero,
Form: Rondeau

Portrait of Nature

Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: number, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse

sleepwalking -

I long to fold my eyes and softly creep

                ...

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Categories: number, dream, fantasy, memory, remember,
Form: Sonnet

Held Aloft

We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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Categories: number, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet

Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy

COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: number, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick

Contemplating Calculations

You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
   ...

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Categories: number, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme

Abigail's Spring - POTW

Abigail’s Spring  

Beneath the shelter of winter’s barren arbor
My winter abused heart
Watches the day’s light linger in the sky resisting darkness -
Begging to play...

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Categories: number, life, spring,
Form: Free verse

The Ballad of Poet Destroyer

"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"

Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...

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Categories: number, absence, courage, me, missing
Form: Dramatic Verse