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Best One Over The Eight Poems

Below are the all-time best One Over The Eight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of one over the eight poems written by PoetrySoup members


Poem From a Weary Heart
Decisions good, decisions bad
Either way it's happy or sad
Losing a job, or losing a friend
It's hidden but stays until the end.

Life's challenges are not really...

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Categories: one over the eight, depression, lost love, loveheart,
Form: Rhyme



Overflow Infliction
Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
...

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Categories: one over the eight, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Never Know What You Will See On Elm Street
You Never Know What You’ll See on Elm Street

Take my hand – follow the plan,
Let’s go for a walk down wide Spruce Street;
Friends to play...

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Categories: one over the eight, adventure, family, fun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Smoking Good
He tossed the finished cigar in the bin,
Doctors for years have said it is a sin,
To blow your two lungs out in puffs of smoke,
Is...

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Categories: one over the eight, age, drug, health,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing
A deluded and deranged miscreant.
Rode in a rented Ryder truck,
Sadistically opposed to his government,
He delivered a two-ton bomb.

After parking the fateful vehicle,
With time fleeting and...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one over the eight, history, loss, natural disasters
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Confess I Am Guilty
When I was just seven, so small
My best friend Jacob, outdid us all
He had a pet Cobra, cool as could be
He forgot to feed it...

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Categories: one over the eight, animal, humorous, pets,
Form: Verse
Cubs Victory
Another World Series 
  I lay down and watched 
as the Cubs 
won it in ten
   A victory after one hundred and...

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Categories: one over the eight, baseball,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Merchant's Lucky Nine
An old merchant was born on this date,

He’s so rich, so famous in their state;

He thought that this digit made him great,

So he kept all...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one over the eight, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
From a Little Yellow Star
There’s a little yellow star on the edge of the Milky Way.
Our strongest telescopes were able to find it the other day.
We are receiving a...

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Categories: one over the eight, science fiction, space, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Fiat 500
New Fiats can be seen on the roads of our nation
since they took the reins of the Chrysler Corporation.
One hundred and eight horsepower does not...

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Categories: one over the eight, business, car,
Form: Rhyme
Brahms and Liszt
Happy.  Genial.  Merry.  Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy.  Tiddly.  Brahms and Liszt

Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered,...

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Categories: one over the eight, drink,
Form: List
Witchology 101
When pilgrims first arrived upon Plymouth’s shores,
They were wary of Indian customs and things they didn’t know-
Suspect of the Indians having powers from the devil,...

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Categories: one over the eight, character, education, fear, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Dog Gone Dog Contest
Pride and Prejudice A Dog’s Tale

Simply scratching is really not fair
said King Kong to the mut in his lair
you’ve laid down with me’s
and I’m covered...

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Categories: one over the eight, animals, funny, love
Form: Limerick
Breaking Headline News This Xmas Eve 2017
After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word spoilt,
et cetera doe fill full heartbreak,

which Santa Claus immediately claimed
to be “FAKE”...

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Categories: one over the eight, abuse, allegory, children, funny,
Form: Free verse
Lamenting Wings
"you are more than I deserve. It's a love I never dreamed I'd find. Happinesd like this is worth dying for..."
- Yasunari Kawabata-

Looking down, while...

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Categories: one over the eight, 12th grade, friend, friendship,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs