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Below are the all-time best One Off poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of one off poems written by PoetrySoup members

Open Sores

I am a coward with open sores. 
I write and wonder who it bores. 
I hear my heart and mind argue repeatedly. 
I see others...

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Categories: one off, allegory, angst, art, dedication,
Form: Acrostic

A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes

alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with...

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Categories: one off, child, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative

Artwork - What Am I

Scratching their heads 
They look at me
Am I a tree stump
Am I a grotesque face
Inside I am  laughing
I know what I am.

Am a freak...

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Categories: one off, identity,
Form: Personification

Mobile Phone Predictive Texting Blues

I've bought a brand new mabel fern,
	expansive, I can tell you,
	when I've learned just how it words
	I'll have a go and bell you.
	It's got ...

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Categories: one off, humorous,
Form: I do not know?

I Grieve a Dream

You are the tear that follows me
the ache within my soul
the bitter-sweet that sings to me
my heart you came and stole

You are a dream beyond...

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Categories: one off, lost loveheart, dream, dream,
Form: Quatrain

Beneath the Sword of Damocles

Beneath the Sword of Damocles

As we nurse our nuclear nightmares
in a not to certain day
We are conjoined in common phobia
of madness or foul play.

Little children...

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Categories: one off, war,
Form: Quatrain

Across the Void

a man and a woman
lucky in love and precious
fate walked in and kissed them both
kisses wet, sloppy, thirsty
from an unplanned tenderness
romance fluttered
love came next there...

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Categories: one off, irony, love,
Form: Free verse

Lord Thank You

Oh Holy Spirit you lifted me without wings 
I was overjoyed flying
inside a warm celestial glow 
tears falling golden love
Raising up inside joy sings a...

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Categories: one off, angel, faith, god, light,
Form: Free verse

Princess Philomena 2

As Our Blessed Lady appeared holding Her Divine Son in Her arms
you will leave this state of pain she said in 3 days
In forty days...

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Categories: one off, blessing, faith, god, love,
Form: Free verse

Old Age

It came upon me unawares
As I bargained to make a living.
Thus absorbed in daily cares
The years I deemed forgiving.

Getting old was ages away
I told myself...

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Categories: one off, age, death,
Form: Rhyme

List of Why I Loved Bill Bulldog

Bill Bulldog was our gorgeous British Bull Dog. We were so lucky to have Bill in our lives for eleven wonderful years. Bill was like...

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Categories: one off, character, dog, happiness, love,
Form: List

Stepping Into the Unknown

Banking on heads but coming 
up tails,
Life is a train on the tracks and 
death is one off the rails;
Turning right when you should 
have...

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Categories: one off, life
Form: Ballad

Robot Boy, Censored Version

So robots write poetry now.  Here's what I think of that.

Yer shiny enough, Robot Boy
Yer hard as a shard of rock
You never run out...

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Categories: one off, break up, computer, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Zero, the Hero

Put one, before, nine numbers of zero,
and take one off, have nine numbers of nine.
Grows a number ten times, zero, the hero. 
Put one, before,...

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Categories: one off, hilarious, math,
Form: Triolet

The Busybody

My next door neighbor
is a busybody
obsessed about
butting into your life
whether you like it or not...

He talks without speaking
hears without listening
I am not one for long...

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Categories: one off, people,
Form: Prose Poetry