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Best Per Year Poems

Below are the all-time best Per Year poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of per year poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: per year, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Obesity
Obesity has been growing in the past 20 years
But health officials were shocked by a 1999
Study that revealed that 61% of the population 
 Either...

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Categories: per year, christian, food,
Form: Light Verse
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: per year, anti bullying, bible, faith,
Form: Free verse
Vacation
Fourth of July meant summer vacation road trips
Sun and fun amusement parks and the beach
Flip flops and freckles carefree slow days like pouring cold honey
Fast...

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Categories: per year, adventure, childhood, family, happinesssummer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When the Weight of the Sky Pushed Them Down
I've been doing my current job for 32 years; lots of travel, places and people.  A few memories stick out; my own Book of...

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Categories: per year, bereavement, death, native american,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Why the Sun Works To Rule
At 10 A.M on Friday 13th July
The Sun emerged from a cloud.
After five minutes shining bright thought,
'Sod this, I'm going back to bed. right now'
The...

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© Ken Duddle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: per year, funny, satire, seasons, sun,
Form: Free verse
Is a Million Dollars Enough To Retire On
Is a Million Dollars Enough to Retire on?

By Elton Camp

We once thought that one who is a millionaire
Is a person who will never have financial...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: per year, on work and workingwork,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Urbane History Lessons
I have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after...

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Categories: per year, caregiving, city, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Water
Water moves continually Over land, evaporation and transpiration 
common chemical substance 
essential to all forms of life 
 the substance  has a solid state,...

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Categories: per year, science, seasons, life, people,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ode To the Ozarks
Growing up in the Ozarks, for brother, sister and me
meant, for the most part, that we were totally free.

We had freedom to explore, to roam...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: per year, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Family
Think about it 
even within 
your own family
between sisters

Cousins and aunt's 
uncle brothers 
and sons
you probably have 

One hundred people
One hundred people 
saving ten dollars...

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Categories: per year, family, humanity, political,
Form: Narrative
Little Feet
They never walked Earth's crusted back,
Carried but a while then coldly denied,
But these little feet make big tracks,
On paths whereby humanity is tried.

Only revelation will...

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Categories: per year, lost love, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mean Economists 404
This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.

First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment...

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Categories: per year, blessing, culture, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Monetary Values of the Questions of Your Crimes of the Century
would you like to hear the good news or the bad news first?

the bad news is
there are billions of people on the planet
who donate at...

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Categories: per year, people, people,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Social Complex
What is social complexity?
asks and answers  Robert Wright
which also reads just as right as
What is regenerative density?
to me
and perhaps to Bucky Fuller,
and then again...

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Categories: per year, culture, earth, environment, happiness,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things