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Best Percale Poems

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


Premium Member dear Gustav -
oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
 ...

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Categories: percale, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Fires, Unfaithful
heaven ...
is my prison ...
that dreamy, white tangle of
percale where your
limbs and mine weave sweaty magic -
a moon-daubed canvas of
pyretic passion, public ...
no shut-door, drawn-curtain...

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Categories: percale, betrayal, lust, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member m'lady sleeps -
a remembrance of the perfect girl
      the phantoms of a wakeless world
        ...

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Categories: percale, analogy, dream, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member afterglow -
we ...
are immortal
you and i have made it so
our passions are spent
flesh and essences, swimming moonlight
drifting gently on a soft cloud of Giza percale
exhaling the...

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Categories: percale, moon, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musette Moon
breath, gone
you drip moonlight
blue, wan ...

thru shades -
skin and tresses
soft braids

cede sleep
limbs and percale
swim ... deep.





~ 1st Place ~  in the "Finding Your Musette"...

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Categories: percale, love, metaphor, moon, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member tear tracks -
is that all I am to you …

a tear on your cheek??
a (not-very-attractive) streak in your
Clé de Peau concealer?
a haggard line from eye-to-chin
that now spells...

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Categories: percale, betrayal, night, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member moonspeak
your skin …

cornflow’r in the moonlite
through louvers that
slice you to tender shards
of opalescence
arranged like piano keys on
Egyptian percale
the sea of sheets we so
often drown in...

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Categories: percale, analogy, kiss, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty Queen
Beauty Queen
Yes indeed, for all to see.

And what a doll you are.
Sun - lit colored ringlets in a row.

You do your little dance for the...

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Categories: percale, beauty, child,
Form: Couplet
Really Good Rap Song Horn Haiku
Really Good Rap Song Horn Haiku

There are scores and scores
Of stores that have gone away
Too much have to pay.

When small star twinkles
Will we see all...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: percale, humorous,
Form: Haiku
Long Winter Grass
The academy of long winter grass,
an education in the backyard.
I always thought I was better
than the sparrows,
thought nothing
of that black cat
looking for his lucky break
on...

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Categories: percale, bird, growing up, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member triple treat -
my heated hopes are waxing hazy
    a couple crushed for carnal crazy
      sneaky you, the scheme to...

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Categories: percale, lust, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member dreams to delirium -
compelled to dream
        through twilight mist
            lids...

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Categories: percale, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Yes, I Think
I think I shall - oh yes, I shall
put you to words in books, et al
and share my scoundrel’s rationale
with those of impish-like morale
but pray...

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Categories: percale, analogy, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
My Dream
.

   Her perambulating 
         my dream

         ...

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Categories: percale, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs