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Best One Third Poems

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


Premium Member A Thief Called Time
A THIEF CALLED TIME

“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978

All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single...

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Categories: one third, life, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Reality of Magic
Magic is everywhere, but stage magicians, 
have no clue, as to what it really is.

Magic built our universe.  
That something so complex, as the...

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Categories: one third, imagery, inspiration, life, magic,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Writing Under the Stain
in an
          angst-             ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one third, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Sits Astride a Horse
Bogdan Chmielnicki sits astride a horse
A magnificent statue in Central Kiev
To a monumental Ukrainian figure
A George Washtington-style liberator
He took it to the Poles in the...

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Categories: one third, celebration, dark, hero, history,
Form: Free verse
Opening the Gyms
The governor announced that gyms
Will open in a week
So all the fitness freaks can start
Improving their physique.

At just one-third capacity,
Facilities will let
Much fewer members enter
To...

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Categories: one third, new york, people,
Form: Rhyme



Hurricane Hattie
HURRICANE HATTIE                       ...

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Categories: one third, earth, nature, rain,
Form: Epic
Grazillas
We love our silly Grazillas,
Who eat chocolate ice cream because they don't like vanilla.
They prefer lumpy pillas,
As they nap under the willas.
They eat salt by...

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Categories: one third, fantasy, children, funny, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After School Jam Session
How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped...

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Categories: one third, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Socialism Kills
Young people go marching, the boys and the girls,
thinking like we once did, they they’ll change the world.
They claim government can be the cure for...

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Categories: one third, death, evil, history, horror,
Form: Rhyme
All You An Eat
ALL YOU CAN EAT

by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I never subscribed to an unusual idea
That aliens are among us and thriving here
I now question my stand on that...

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Categories: one third, addiction, america, culture, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle:Wander Not Into a Land Where the Indigene's Indolent
Villanelle: Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent

Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent
Likely as not the country will be run...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one third, abuse, addiction, conflict, confusion,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Living Dead
Take away the safety net
What remains 
only the weak kill and call themselves men 
A coward hides in the mountain of who they are 
behind...

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Categories: one third, christian, conflict, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How We Elect the President
How We Elect the President 
Senate and House of Representatives
By Franklin Price
3/20/2019

A Representative Republic
Is what we're supposed to be
We are one from fifty states
For all...

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Categories: one third, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Piece of Peace
The sky is a mass field of common wealth
Air,light and water yields of common wealth
Along and across,the lines drawn on the political map
Like nerves running...

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Categories: one third, celebrity, feelings, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one third, adventure, destiny, future, imagination,
Form: Verse

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