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Best On The Spot Poems

Below are the all-time best On The Spot poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on the spot poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: on the spot, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: on the spot, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: on the spot, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: on the spot, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liquid Heaven
Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...

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Categories: on the spot, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: on the spot, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Our Rainbow of Love
My love, do you ever know...

In your moments of hushed silence, 
I am your sound;

You are the rhythm
of the symphonic waves
in the vast sea 
of...

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Categories: on the spot, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Distinct Ballet
I've thrown my quill in quiet rage
   sometimes, when mocked by empty page.
I read such vibrant poetry 
  in awe, and ask...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the spot, butterfly, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
The Trail of a Raindrop
Sudden rain brought me
under your umbrella
for the first time.
For the first time
you were so close to me
with your fragrance.
The umbrella was
not big enough
to cover both...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the spot, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the spot, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Dryad's Tale
One day while passing by a tree, I heard a sigh.
It seemed the oak could speak; I felt my knees go weak,
for like a siren’s...

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Categories: on the spot, day, fantasy, me, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When We Were Royals
Leaning against the warmth of old oak, 

I recall your sun burnt skin that summer.

As I let my fingers linger on the side of the...

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Categories: on the spot, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: on the spot, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: on the spot, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: on the spot, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun

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