Best Participant Poems
Below are the all-time best Participant poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of participant poems written by PoetrySoup members
Lending Both HandsLet me
lend a hand
I can’t sit
when you
have to stand
When you
can’t do it all
together we can
It’s not
a woman thing
It’s more than
just gender...
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Categories:
participant, care, thank you,
Form:
Rhyme
Felony MoneyTrue definition of a hood love story,
They called him Felony.
Skin was as smooth as a shot of Hennessey.
He made a lot of other men envy.
His...
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Categories:
participant, imagination, love, poetry, romance,
Form:
Light Verse
A Tortured SpiritA tortured spirit, earth bound wreaths in agony,
trapped within human body, desperate for freedom.
To be able to escape and hide from other's sight,
to escape the...
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Categories:
participant, cry, dark, depression, introspection,
Form:
Verse
For the Girl with the Brand New Toothbrush The Girl with the Brand New Toothbrush
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For the girl with the brand new toothbrush
...
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Categories:
participant, appreciation, rap, sexy, sin,
Form:
Lyric
Don't bide your timeIn the blink of an eye the time passes so fast it flies by
Define time
Lives a ***** then you die
Eye of the...
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Categories:
participant, hip hop, how i
Form:
Rhyme
Oh what miseryOh what misery!
The heart-
an indigent and feral beast
kept in lock down
in an inner cage
for my own good
What treachery dwells
within that creature!
It's wiles,
it's devious...
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Categories:
participant, betrayal, desire, heart, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Nightmare in AbstractShe stood in thrall to the Magyar
As, one hand cupped to a breast,
The other picked careful notes
From the guitar against his chest,
So they made...
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Categories:
participant, fantasy, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
Straw MenWhere, oh where, is God?
When will the man-child stop asking why,
stop searching for the other, the greater, the bigger
the more glorious presence?
This constant need...
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Categories:
participant, allusion, planet,
Form:
Free verse
NEWFOUNDLANDN atural beauty that dazzles the eyes
E nveloped by the Alantic ocean it lies
W inters are long with lots of storms
F og so thick it...
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Categories:
participant, culture, home,
Form:
Acrostic
Team Work Team Work
alteration between success and failure
astuteness to win challenges
ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives
ability to work together toward a common...
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Categories:
participant, career, courage, dream, faith,
Form:
Prose
OlympicsEveryone around the world is gathered
at the arena as a sports person,
and an audience;
boxing, swimming, fencing, athletics,
weightlifting, soccer.....all the games
are present for enjoyment,
and for the...
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Categories:
participant, imagery, life, passion, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Gift Of MortalityAn earthly existence
A universe beyond my minds, comprehension
I die
I rise
Life lessons reviewed
Homeward bound
I am not lost, after all!
I am a willing participant
Serving, the Father, of...
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Categories:
participant, adventure, beautiful, beauty, child,
Form:
Free verse
LanguagesI know six languages,
The one I write in
The one I speak in,
My mother’s words,
My father's verse,
And those of my brothers.
My mother speaks quickly
In...
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Categories:
participant, children, family, father, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
SHOW ME THE FUNNY - A SAILOR WENT TO SEE SEE SEE A SAILOR WENT TO SEE SEE SEE....
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Categories:
participant, funny
Form:
Monorhyme
SEA TURTLESA foggy night just tip-toes in
Like a whisper on a cloud.
And the haloed harbor lights above
Warmly welcome the sparse inlet crowd.
The briney salt air softly...
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Categories:
participant, animal, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Human, Are YouI am Human, Are You?
When I look back and try to remember where I came from,
When I stumble over where I am going,
When I tumble...
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Categories:
participant, blessing, courage, destiny, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
What She Means to ME-male masculinityI'm sorry for ever calling you a especially when it was usually a argument about something I did & you asked me to switch
I...
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Categories:
participant, angel, black african american,
Form:
Ballad
CARPE DIEMCARPE DIEM
So many days have slipped
unnoticed
through my hands.
Unfinished paintings
longing
for that final brushstroke,
unwritten poems
passion’s silenced expression,
unseeing eyes
clothed in the darkness
of the future,
determined to “Squeeze the Day”
udder-like
“milking...
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Categories:
participant, introspection, life,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Face masks, face veils: same thinghttps://youtu.be/c1gNm21YzfI
When last I visited India almost a decade ago
I recall riding on my brother's scooter
as he drove me around town,
And I saw fully veiled...
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Categories:
participant, health, truth, , western,
Form:
Prose
A Hot Time in Auckland City“METROPOLIS BLUES”
The elemental wind
curls in from the north east,
sublime salon creations in
disarray, in grimy profusion
inventiveness subsides.
The town clock strikes out,
within ear shot, a bench seat...
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Categories:
participant, angst, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The Power of Forgiveness The Power of Forgiveness
By Reg Rhodes
Today, I found a key to set myself free from the nightmares of my own
shattered reality.
Today,...
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Categories:
participant, pain, prayer, relationship,
Form:
ABC
Excuse me OperatorExcuse me operator,
I think I’ve been disconnected,
To a neurotic world that's seemed to lose its senses,
A ceaseless quest of life questions,
Where are all of...
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Categories:
participant, courage, inspirational, passion, perspective,
Form:
Epic
The Uniform of Sacrifice
Upon me is a garment,
unlike any other.
An entity that I share,
with my sister and my brother.
Worn on the battlefield,
and when ever were, at...
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Categories:
participant, war,
Form:
Rhyme
MLK's WayYou see I say things in segments
or incraments. The word usage
that rhymes and makes sense it's
significant
I still remain a participant to an
extent of the...
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Categories:
participant, black african american, day,
Form:
Limerick
on the long drive to changeon the long drive to change,
i didn't know at the time
when the realization came,
i was literally shaken clean
from the aged norm of my...
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Categories:
participant, change, growth, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse