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Best Otherwise Poems

Below are the all-time best Otherwise poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of otherwise poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member When a Man Cries
No one ever told me that your heart could bleed without a drop that anyone could see. I didn't know your soul could lose weight...

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Categories: otherwise, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: otherwise, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: otherwise, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Day My Eternal Friend
Day, my lifelong friend
Thousands of times have we said good morning to each other and
As many times have, we said goodnight,
You have wakened me up...

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Categories: otherwise, day, death, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Alpha To Omega
ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul...

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Categories: otherwise, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: otherwise, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Bridge Over Silent Waters
A Bridge Over Silent Waters

Never judge your fellow man
Before seeking your own reflection
Not the one that shines in a glass mirror
Seek it in the eyes...

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Categories: otherwise, appreciation, art, deep, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering...

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Categories: otherwise, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Amendments To Make
The last moment of his life came.
The beyond anxiously awaited to receive him into
Its eternal embrace.

He was terrified!

He asked for some more time. 
He wished...

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Categories: otherwise, death, judgement, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Shake Off the Wolf
steel clouds once more freeze
bare trees comfort each other
ripped trunk holds it together

the sun shields its eyes
its flames dying in Winter
the core feels the biting...

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Categories: otherwise, weather,
Form: Choka
Soulmate Love
Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream,...

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Categories: otherwise, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: otherwise, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weather Forecast
December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the...

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Categories: otherwise, humorous, life, weather, word
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tick Tock
To all of us
Who have lost someone
To all of us who have lost something
A void, emptiness
A feeling of the no more
And nevermore
To those of us
Who...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: otherwise, family, hope, life, peoplelost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onslaught
#One should be cautious in starting a war, but 
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#

     #Quote by Hirohito circa...

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Categories: otherwise, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs