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Best On Your Toe Poems

Below are the all-time best On Your Toe poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on your toe poems written by PoetrySoup members


Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: on your toe, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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Categories: on your toe, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
The Older I Get
I once heard the whisper of falling snow,
saw a spark in the eye of a coal-black crow,
felt the power and awe of a swift river's...

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Categories: on your toe, allegory, angst, health
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member ugly gray rock -
an ugly gray rock, so I kicked it along
amused by my memories, humming a song
it was jagged and rough - I gave it no mind
and...

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Categories: on your toe, beauty, humanity, metaphor, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Flip Flop
This is my black Christmas
I have nothing left to lose
I’m a bare footed white walker with no shoes
It’s okay burly guy don’t cry
I’ve found my...

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Categories: on your toe, angst, appreciation, christmas, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Muse Abused

I'll just step
very softly,
tip toe,
on this blank page.
My inner critic?
fast asleep!
Perhaps
I'll tap dance,
lightly,
while he snores.
For freedom
has a jazz band beat
...soon twirling dizzily...
Shhh!
The prison guard stirs.

9/27/2019

Yalto...

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Categories: on your toe, dance, freedom, muse,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Reverie of Roses
when last rays of autumn - tip toe along to sunset streaked reveries

listen to the crisp breeze of fallen fairies - truth floats through tawny...

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Categories: on your toe, butterfly, i love you,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Well-Appointed Cowpoke
A well-appointed cowpoke, of whom there are still a few,
Wanted to be properly clad for his first job interview.
So, to impress his potential and somewhat...

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Categories: on your toe, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hello and Goodbye Coco
HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting...

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Categories: on your toe, death, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lady In White
One pitch black night I was driving home and was ready for my bed
My usual route was closed for repairs so I took the minor...

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Categories: on your toe, car, dark, humor, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Play Rain
Play rain , play melancholic tunes
Play closely to my ear, I need to hear

I want to listen to Sinatra's toe-tap sounds
As you fall, fall slowly...

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Categories: on your toe, childhood, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I the Ocean
I the ocean
watch sailing ships
in the salty air 
pass over me

I hold mystery from
the cusp of the moon
an endless view
for all to see

Where laughing gulls
sit...

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Categories: on your toe, ocean,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Toeing the Line - Bawdy Limerick
Sue’s panties gave her so much woe -
She suffered from dire ‘camel toe’
But with help from soft plastic
Her new outline’s fantastic
It’s discrete and no one...

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Categories: on your toe, body, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
In His Bed
In his bed she lies in wait.
For when he returns he will surely sate.
The time in the shower was just a tease.
No time to savor.....no...

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Categories: on your toe, lost love, passion, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't...

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Categories: on your toe, change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things