Best On The Back Burner Poems
Below are the all-time best On The Back Burner poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on the back burner poems written by PoetrySoup members
ON THE BACK BURNERTo
soak in
a scripture-
until it makes
sense...
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Categories:
on the back burner, devotion, faith,
Form:
Bio
A Recipe for DisasterAdd one part boredom, two parts hate.
A stick of narrow mindedness, you may adjust to taste.
Crack open shallow influences from a broken home.
Make sure the...
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Categories:
on the back burner, philosophy, visionary, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
God Has His ReasonsIt is very easy to see all the tragedy in this mans world.
Understanding for now it belongs to the spiritual evil master God’s plan unfurls.
Children,...
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Categories:
on the back burner, faith, father, evil, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Ignorance meets InsanitySeriousness settles in, like an old friend
Seriousness spreads like a disease
Infecting us, accelerating, our aging process
Our youthfulness, our playfulness, slowly slipping away
Our wonder in...
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Categories:
on the back burner, confusion, courage, depression, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Lukewarm LoveTo keep warm not hot
I’m pushed on the back burner
Lukewarm love turns cold
Eileen Manassian Ghali
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Categories:
on the back burner, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form:
Senryu
The Running Chestnut - euphemismsNext you can expect Running Chestnut ...
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Categories:
on the back burner, allegory, funny, on writing
Form:
Free verse
Love lostTwo lovers living together
For years day to day
Used to be so in love
They would laugh
They would play
Somewhere in between
All the compliments and pride
Life got into...
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Categories:
on the back burner, deep, devotion, hope, husband,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
CANCER'please readDear PS poets my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer and at this time he's my main concern and I've had to put...
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on the back burner, fear, cancer,
Form:
I do not know?
Evolution of a Poet
Employed by Boeing before I retired
An engineer, then into management
I had good writing skills, as were required
When I wrote, you could tell what was meant
Poetry...
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Categories:
on the back burner, on writing and words,
Form:
Quatrain
Steering Precision
For years I've hugged a dream
Not a very lady-like one
But then again
Who said, I am a lady?
Not me!
I want a pile of rustic junk
A few...
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Categories:
on the back burner, inspirational
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Poet's IntrospectionA poet hid her talents much too long.
Service for her family was needed.
Caring for others, denied her heart’s song.
Priorities; unto God, she pleaded.
Having hidden her...
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Categories:
on the back burner, children, introspection, self, writing,
Form:
Quatrain
ForgottenSometimes, I used to feel,
like the Lord
had forgotten about me.
Like, me and my stuff
had been put on the back burner,
until I could figure out,
whatever...
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Categories:
on the back burner, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fickle FebruaryIn our valley, often called the hardest month
breathes the fickle...
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Categories:
on the back burner, nature, sea, seasons
Form:
Free verse
AMERICAN FAMILIES CRY OUTWhy must the American people keep asking why
The FBI always seems to get a Bye
When accountability for one's actions
Should be so high
Persecution of so many...
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Categories:
on the back burner, bullying, conflict, faith, family,
Form:
Narrative
Racial LinesThere are folks among us who think they are better
because of their positions in life or hierarchy,
They have not learned the art of humility,
They turn...
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Categories:
on the back burner, political
Form:
Prose Poetry
Today Today
Times have changed from yesterday
when our...
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Categories:
on the back burner, america, anxiety, baby, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen to be Forgotten Every single day
I climb out of my hole
Pretend that every thing is ok
When I just want to crawl...
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Categories:
on the back burner, betrayal, sad,
Form:
Verse
The OutrageBetween the two doors,
one that leads you in and the other moves you out,
stands this man, shouting at this little girl,
the voice like an...
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Categories:
on the back burner, daughter, father, teen, anger,
Form:
Narrative
I decided to live life for meYou can't force me
to be with you
I know you want to be happy
But I deserve to be happy to
I know it hurts
for me to...
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Categories:
on the back burner, abuse, break up, divorce,
Form:
I do not know?
Sometimes I wonderSometimes I wonder, wonder what you saw in me?
I wonder if you remember, most of all.
I wonder if I was just too much, or...
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Categories:
on the back burner, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Real LoveWhen we think of Love we don't think of our Lord up above.
We think about man the ones who puts us on the back burner...
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Categories:
on the back burner, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
A Loss Hidden AwayTucked away for so long,
The loss of a loved one is now gone,
To late for words of comfort,
Grieving period but inside feeling like a monster,
No...
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Categories:
on the back burner, death, deep, funeral,
Form:
ABC
The UsersWatch out, beware of the users!
They make us feel like losers,
For they take and take and take,
No difference to them does it make,
How you feel,
Or...
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Categories:
on the back burner, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
NOT MY BRANDThat's all science fiction was ever about.
Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
RAY BRADBURY, "No News, or, What Killed...
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Categories:
on the back burner, science fiction, words,
Form:
Free verse
MARTIN LUTHER KINGMartin Luther King was
A man of words
He stirred your emotions
And you wanted to be heard
He inspired me
To fight for what I want
And not give...
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Categories:
on the back burner, emotions, encouraging, feelings, inspiration,
Form:
Ode