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Best Paraphrase Poems

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


Premium Member Poetic Predator
Take AI’s verses 
    and make them yours,
fake wisdom through 
   generated synonyms,
stolen from 
   the thesaurus of...

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Categories: paraphrase, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bloody Feet Upon the Slab
That tiny pause to skirt the truth, half-reals you'd paraphrase,
The subtle softly spinning gyre of cunning in your gaze,
Vague reflections from your skin - a...

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Categories: paraphrase, addiction, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: paraphrase, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angelic
Where is the love you promised us always? Eternal love is 
cast out of heaven for the angelic it seems—Quote by poet

It burns deeply knowing...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paraphrase, angel, feelings, irony, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Be Prolific
My life has been fairly stable. Rarely does an event “change my life” in any significant way. Marriage, children, one’s job. Of course, these alter...

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Categories: paraphrase, writing,
Form: Prose



Plagiarism
Why plagiarise

If you have an open

And creative mind,

Why waste your time

On rehashing others

Words or rhymes,

When you, I am sure

Have a unique take on life,

Paraphrase that’s...

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Categories: paraphrase, judgement, literature, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Lonesome On the Beat Way
Lonesome on the beat and path;
I am lonesome on the Beat way.
On the Road with Jack Kerouac 
and having a lunch naked with William S....

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Categories: paraphrase, depression, life, lonely, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mistakes - Am I a Fake
What to look for?
Where do errors lie?
Are they in the eye of the beholder
or do they lie?

I believe I’m a poet,
a prophet of paraphrase,
a swindler...

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Categories: paraphrase, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Hey Poetrysoup Folks-
I picked "cinqku" because I don't know 
what form that is, and I'm too lazy to
look it up; but if you've ever read any
of my...

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Categories: paraphrase, age,
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member Because I Live - Mr
"A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also." John...

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Categories: paraphrase, religious,
Form: Quatern
An Introduction: An Introduction
Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that...

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Categories: paraphrase, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Child Inside
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Some take a child for angels, some for birds.
How much is it worth with the child’s face?
I’ll...

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© Omar Jabak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paraphrase, allegory, bird, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crop Failure - Bitter Harvest
The past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing,...

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Categories: paraphrase, anti bullying, bible, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ballad of Poor Henrietta
Dr. George Gey from Johns Hopkins Hospital
Was looking for cells that would be reproducible
Of their own accord for the benefit of medicine
And lo and behold...

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Categories: paraphrase, health, science,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Precious Ability
Precious Ability
The brain, the instincts, the beauty, the health, the years the courage.
I thank him who "has all power" for these gifts by using them.!
The...

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Categories: paraphrase, courage, god, life,
Form: Prose

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