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Best Perused Poems

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


Premium Member Like a Book
He read her like a book 
as her wistful words poured forth
from deep within the pages
of her tender seeking soul.

He lay mesmerized 
as her paragraphs...

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Categories: perused, books, love, sensual, simile,
Form: Free verse



I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3
"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I...

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Categories: perused, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
Egos On Display
So many people complain when they lose

To gain better rankings, judges they schmooze

And if they don’t place, their egos are bruised

They even use blogs simply...

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Categories: perused, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's the Thought That Counts
My abiding memory of 2015 is of events that are so sad
With my father’s death, it’s the worst year I’ve ever had

It has been the...

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Categories: perused, christmas, giving, humorous, memory,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silent Killer
Kill the Silent One

(Silent Killer)


He has invaded, unseen
Lurking and silent
Evil destroying one and all
From cell to cell
Crawling underneath
Leaching blood and soul
Smiles are murdered
Futures destroyed
Families ruined
The...

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Categories: perused, cancer, health, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse



My To-Do List
I have a to- do list cos I am thirty this year
Top of the agenda is to ride bareback through fire

Done many things in my short...

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Categories: perused, fire, horse,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Inner Child
Deep night- 
In its quiver,
I write.

Perused-
Subconscious yields, 
True muse

Child’s Zen
Speaking softly…
From when.


David Mohn
WHISPERS OF A MUSE - Poetry Contest
24 Nov 2014...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perused, inspiration, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Yuck
YUCK

I know we are supposed to love them
all creatures great and small

I know God had a reason
when he created those that crawl

even those that creep...

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Categories: perused, environment, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Sheerluck Homes and the Case of the Disappearing Poets
'Twas the Perpetually-Missing Soup Poets case,
With Homes and Whatsup hot on the chase. 

Poets leaving was not breaking news,
So they slowly perused the usual clues.

Dr....

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Categories: perused, dance, games, mystery, simple,
Form: Rhyme
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3
Note: If you haven’t please check out part 1 and 2 
before reading this. It will make more sense that way Thanks.

"May I?" she asked...

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Categories: perused, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aunt Matties Place
I love to reminisce about great Aunt Mattie.
Her home perched atop of an old barber shop; 
a barber pole below her apartment told my young...

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Categories: perused, appreciation, chocolate, family, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After the Flood
I am told the poetry's fine by some,
enjoyed perused that was their sum
and yet this flow.. Through mind and soul
I cannot own; not it's depth...

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Categories: perused, bible, god, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pilfered Soulless House
*Image of Best Collapse by Giphy.

Pilfered Soulless House

Pilfered dawn occasions a soulless house, bruised
appeals innocence whilst porch screen once tended,
concedes whispers of dust calm quest...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perused, farewell, fate, house, imagery,
Form: Sapphic stanza
The Mirth of Monsters
A picture appeared on my phone today,
on the proverbial page I perused.

A view of an evil most vile,
villainy veiled behind verve and vim.

Sadists from Auschwitz,
smiling...

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Categories: perused, evil, fear, holocaust, horror,
Form: Alliteration
Nearing the End
When I’m reading a novel
And nearing the end,
(Especially one that
I would recommend),

I want to speed up
So I finally know
Where the author was leading
Through ebb and...

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Categories: perused, books,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs