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Best Percent Poems

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

One Hundred Percent Love ( a Collaboration W/ S.K.A.T. Poetry)

“Pretty lady”, let me love you, take you places you’ve never been
All the pain you’ve gone through, I’ll make sure it don’t happen again
I promise...

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Categories: percent, passionlove,
Form: Rhyme

Tomorrow Will Be

It’s never tomorrow. It’s always today -
at least in this moment it is, anyway!
So if you are saying out loud a big Wow,
you’re not in...

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Categories: percent, life, time,
Form: Lyric

Lions Led By a Donkey

I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...

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Categories: percent, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme

Wall Street

Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: percent, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic

Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner

He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He...

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Categories: percent, funny,
Form: Rhyme

To Touch a Dream

Dreams come in many forms
Some are cold and others warm

Some play like a movie in black and white
And some are no less than a guiding...

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Categories: percent, devotion, faith, friendship, life,
Form: Couplet

Powder Blue Box

the injustice of
the powder blue box
standing proudly
on the corner of
fifty-seventh and fifth

A symbol of division
extending the partition
between wealth and
everyone else

back around the way
the old shabby
half...

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Categories: percent, life,
Form: Free verse

The Silver Ghost

I find it so strange
                    ...

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Categories: percent, age, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Do the Math

Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...

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Categories: percent, america, history, math, truth,
Form: Narrative

The Uss Indianapolis

It was in July of 1945 
  And the USS Indianapolis
Had a crew of nearly 12 hundred alive
  But a Japanese sub fired...

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Categories: percent, history, sea, war, lost,
Form: Narrative

Quest For Tolerance

new nation to craft
founding fathers sought to draft
a declaration of independence
document that made sense

Thomas Jefferson sought to free slaves
but was warned not to make waves
five...

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Categories: percent, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

Dragon and Dr Seuss

"Oh, The places You'll Go!"

Dragon was in a slump as the kids all left to go back to school.
So I read to him:“All the Places...

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Categories: percent, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Getaway Vacation

"Baby, this view is fantastic, 
Who knew what you could buy with plastic! 
With these credit cards, unlimited funds, 
Any regrets, heck no, baby I...

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Categories: percent, humorous, vacation,
Form: Free verse

Ho-Ho-Ho

Welcome KMart shoppers blares through the air as a mosh pit of greedy Holiday buggers hurl themselves through the glass and aluminum doors—Obese bodies press...

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Categories: percent, holiday,
Form: Haibun

Ode To a Gargoyle

I pass you several times a week
down at the Cheapside junction
your name defines the job you do
but you perform no function.
No drainage from the upper...

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Categories: percent, friend,
Form: Rhyme