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Best Oldie Poems

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


Premium Member 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: oldie, home,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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: oldie, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Comes a Wind
Thirsting, thirsting. . . shriveled earth
suffocates in summer’s dearth,
yearns for rain clouds’ forthwith bursting:
Shriveled earth. . . thirsting, thirsting.

Browning, browning in their beds,
flowers parched hang...

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Categories: oldie, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Fleeting Dreams
Fondly He crawled into her night
and pressed a kiss upon her cheek
Through skylight glass He watched the stars
counting her fervent  fleeting dreams.

Her dreams...

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Categories: oldie, absence, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring
’Tis Spring
 (this is the real title, which I am unable to post this way in the title heading)

Rejuvenate! ’Tis spring.
Cruel winter’s lost its cling.
We...

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Categories: oldie, spiritual, spring,
Form: Ballad



Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind 

The girl was luscious in the...

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Categories: oldie, adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ghost Guitar
Ghost Guitar

I think of you and play you, any time of day
You understand my needs, understand what I must say 
You’ve always been so close...

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Categories: oldie, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Autumn Rapture
Autumn is a woman. Bedecked in gold and crimson, hair
Upswept, serene, she warmly glistens till capriciously shaking her
Tresses loose and imbibing northern winds, she begins...

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Categories: oldie, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Season's Dance
The seasons vary as they come and go,
and each, a lovely lady, loves to dance.
Fair Winter glistens in a gown of snow
she wears whenever she...

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Categories: oldie, seasons,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Her Sustenance
Her lust for you is fierce.
She spreads it out before you
as if it were a lavish bridegroom’s dinner
of caviar, oysters and shrimp;
spears of warmed asparagus...

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Categories: oldie, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Feelings
On better days, On better nights

 before wide blue yonder

 turned into a black widow spider

Have we met , Have we painted a blank canvas

Have...

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Categories: oldie, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Pasionata
My Beloved

Take me to the memory

A never lasting dream

which lived in yester yesterday

long before destiny took its toll

and footprints marked separate paths

Take  me back...

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Categories: oldie, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Six Dancers All In White
In my room late one night, I caught six dancers all in white.

In tutus, flowered caps, and tights, they twirled on tiny pointed toes.

Seeing me,...

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Categories: oldie, fantasy,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Spring Lasses
March is the first to arrive on the scene.
She sees Winter leaving and blows him a kiss,
And then she starts in to paint the world...

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Categories: oldie, spring,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member To the Birthday Girl -And Guys
Happy Birthday to this awesome THREE:

to Frank, Kashinath, and P.D.

Those born this day SEVEN

have blessings of Heaven

in wit, charm and poetry!


Resurrecting this oldie for the...

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Categories: oldie, friendship, happiness,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things