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Best Penalized Poems

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


Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: penalized, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Ruled By a Clock
When I was born, who would have thought
I’d grow up to be ruled by a clock.
Clocks mock dreams while hours gawk - 
clicking off our...

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Categories: penalized, anxiety, conflict, rude, simple,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member False Alarm
You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your...

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Categories: penalized, love hurts, pain, recovery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colors and Shades Part One
Written: August 21, 2023
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This planet is such a vast variegated palette.
All ethnicities, cultures, and hues have talent.
A canvas filled with many views and dreams.
So gorgeous,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalized, analogy, bereavement, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed...

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Categories: penalized, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Pussycat Paean
What due is this, O feline fierce,
for what affront thus penalized
with calibrated nips that pierce
for soft caress unauthorized?

T’was you with brazen move unasked
who burnished coat...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalized, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Snapshots From a Child's West London
I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured...

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Categories: penalized, child, childhood, children, england,
Form: Free verse
Embedded Balls
Embedded Balls

When I heard about embedded balls
It got my full attention
I always thought it personal
Something one doesn’t mention
Then I read you might be penalized
Should you...

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Categories: penalized, education, golf,
Form: Rhyme
When Up I Was Growing
When up I was growing, awed and confused,
sure was not I of which road to choose.
For binary my soul and dellusioned my mind,
I dallied at...

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Categories: penalized, adventure,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Life the Game
	
         Life,
	The Game
	Written: by Tom Wright
	10/13/01  
	
	I did not choose the game,
	The game chose me.
	My only...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalized, life,
Form: Free verse
In Football Shape
Just like football I am penalized
My wife says for being off sides 
I just wanna snuggle a little bit
But you know them football brides

She wears...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalized, funnyfootball,
Form: Rhyme
The Swarm
It's like a scene out of The Children of the Corn,
Sweaters torn when I head the SWARM,
Inside the inner city desert storm,

My spectacular vernacular,
and poetic...

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Categories: penalized, hip hop, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme
More Somewhat Twisted Thoughts of the Day
I made a wish upon a star and really got burned
I made a wish upon a star and left Madonna breathless
I hitched my wagon to...

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Categories: penalized, funny, philosophy, star, star,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dubious
I beheld your frame in my doubting eyes
there was no way for me to 
explain this to by brain.
How could my trembling hands want to
follow...

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Categories: penalized,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Ize Have It
The "IZE" have it

We the people try to Rationalize
the choices we make with compromise

Let's be honest we tend to idolize
and we rarely do apologize

Are rights...

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Categories: penalized, political,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs