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Best Open And Shut Poems

Below are the all-time best Open And Shut poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of open and shut poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member - Haunted Beauty -
The family had just moved into an old castle in Scotland; 
mother, father and their only daughter, Emmie, that they loved so deeply. 
Emmie was...

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Categories: open and shut, art, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Free verse



Fast Food Kitchen
When at home its often fast food I crave,
might even be leftovers that I saved,
always in a race,
open and shut case,
thank God for my nuke...

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Categories: open and shut, food, technology, time,
Form: Limerick
Epidermal Evidence

It’s skin deep evident,
being black is an inherent crime

It doesn’t matter whether we
peacefully
stand our ground,
or be siren subservient — 
Hands in the air, 
knees bent

We...

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Categories: open and shut, grief, perspective, truth, violence,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member How Beautiful My Love
The sound of your voice made me shake inside
Your mouth never opened yet my ears heard your words
You reached out and touched me without using...

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Categories: open and shut, happiness, inspirational, love, me,
Form: Lyric
Flatulent Fannie
Fannie Strumpet is a flatulent floozy
With each wiggle her rump lets out a doozy
She blows out so much gas
Foul vapor from her a$$
It's asphyxiating and...

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Categories: open and shut, funny,
Form: Limerick



Surreal Poem
Last night I dreamed
your eyes were lit
in a world of fire
your kisses struck
like heat lightning
many moons rose and fell
tides pulled the shoreline closer
you transparent as...

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Categories: open and shut, art, dream, flying,
Form: Free verse
King Fish of the Sea
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Categories: open and shut, beautiful, inspiration, life, muse,
Form: Ode
Haunted Beauty
The family had just moved into an old castle in Scotland; 
mother, father and their only daughter, Emmie, that they loved so deeply. 
Emmie was...

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Categories: open and shut, art, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Peach
“Peach”



What have I done,
To deserve this peach?
The Lord only knows,
How many they’ll reach.


You know the media,
And how they preach.
Abuse of their right,
To Freedom of Speech.


My...

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Categories: open and shut, betrayal, celebrity, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Up At the North Pole
Up on the Housetop

  1. Up on the housetop reindeer pause,
      Out jumps Good Old Santa Claus
  ...

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Categories: open and shut, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Feel
Truth has the power 
to unlock under the carpet of lies 
hidden agendas covered up secrets
 
Open and shut case proof behind scenes 
we are...

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Categories: open and shut, body, corruption, faith, hope,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Anticlimax
I lay down to sleep
with the lovely lilts of rain
and the soft whisper of wind in my ears
At some unearthly hour
wakened up from sleep
by howls...

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Categories: open and shut, betrayal, night, rain,
Form: Free verse
How Can We Humans Be So Blind
This planet whereon we reside
gave nature’s bounty far and wide.
We’ve seen our Mother Earth from space
who barely shows her fragile face
as Pale Blue Dot, sunbeam...

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Categories: open and shut, appreciation, earth, environment, humanity,
Form: Verse
Oval Sanatorium

Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been 
grumpily sucking 
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed...

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Categories: open and shut, humor, parody, satire, word
Form: Light Verse
Lock Me Up...
If it's a crime to love you,
lock me up, key and all!
Tell it all over the news,
let it ring from city hall!

It's an open and...

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Categories: open and shut, life, love, people, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs