Best On With The Motley Poems
Below are the all-time best On With The Motley poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on with the motley poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Book of BooksA book comprised of sixty-six,
with content of a unique mix.
Though found in almost every home,
It’s very much an unread tome.
The authors were a motley crew,
Into...
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Categories:
on with the motley, allusion, bible, christian, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The JesterTHE JESTER
Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...
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Categories:
on with the motley, history,
Form:
Alliteration
Despair DispelledDawn's rays burst through gray clouds
Though evening's bitterness lingers
She struggles to shake free of tear-stained, satin shrouds
Each morning, so much effort just to rise
But lips...
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Categories:
on with the motley, animals, happiness, naturenight, night,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight DisappearsAs shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight,
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets.
Twilight's crimson-colored clouds coalesce,
tinting...
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Categories:
on with the motley, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
A Casual ObservationIt was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...
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Categories:
on with the motley, angst,
Form:
Haibun
Home Sweet HomeThere is one place in this lonely life
where I can run away to on this long, dark road.
Only the moon knows my way home tonight
and...
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Categories:
on with the motley, heart, home, lonely, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Snow White and the Seven DorksA magic mirror told the queen that Snow White was the fairest in the land!
This put Her Majesty in a terrible snit and to the...
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on with the motley, funnyhome, snow, home, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
Pondering of a PuddlePonded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty...
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Categories:
on with the motley, april, destiny, fate, imagination,
Form:
Haibun
Soaking Up the SunSaffron sun shone brightly, though it was a rainy day,
And varicolored umbrellas were up, in wild vivid array.
All shades were abloom, on the beautiful Dahlia...
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on with the motley, beautiful, color, flower, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Emotional StewWhat is emotional stew, you ask
Describing that is in itself a task
It's a motley mix of chunks and bits
In a pot of feelings where...
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Categories:
on with the motley, food, introspection, feelings,
Form:
Couplet
Tribute To the JesterYou tango, you twirl in tangerine tails,
With ragged red’n’black blouse and shoes
Little leather flimsy flopsy boots with dinky tink balls,
Balls that ding a...
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Categories:
on with the motley, happiness, happy, society,
Form:
Quatrain
TattersSuddenly from somewhere
A street urchin-
An untamed bird of the wider sky
Dropped down
Into the circus tent
Before him was unfurled
Scenes eerie….awesome!!
Roaring lions and tigers,
Gibbering baboons, caravans of...
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Categories:
on with the motley, angst, childhood, heartbroken, smile,
Form:
Free verse
Where Eagles Soar
Where Eagles Soar
Flying far above the masses
In azured tinctured skies,
They fly independently.
For that, is where true class
lies!
They want no part of any
motley crew birds.
Just self-determined...
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Categories:
on with the motley, confidence, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispers of Unwritten AbsenceWritten: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the...
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Categories:
on with the motley, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form:
Rhyme
Prologue to Springtime
Written: April 22, 2024
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Whimsical whispers of...
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Categories:
on with the motley, analogy, beauty, spring,
Form:
Free verse