Best Petered Poems
Below are the all-time best Petered poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of petered poems written by PoetrySoup members
Free Association PulsationCorsican sand
on the Rio Grande
Simon Bolivar weeps
the night asleep
Renegade cycles
hogs gone mild
Gehinnom's Mayor
Timothy Leary's child
Zebras abound
...
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Categories:
petered, angst, confusion, crazy, howl,
Form:
Rhyme
between linesplausible patience petered out
awareness inverted
beyond the setting sun
alongside mirror...
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Categories:
petered, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Finger GossipThe grandfather clock just struck twelve, that magic hour of night,
And there he sits drumming our fingers musing about something to write!
He's been biting our...
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Categories:
petered, funnyold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Slam Poetry Is For Orangutangs!The Orangutang:
There once was a traditionalist,
Who in his ignorance had missed
The beauty of youth,
The ever-changing truth!
He's a typical fundamentalist!
The Traditionalist:
"I can't stand these kids and...
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Categories:
petered, confusion, funny, on writing
Form:
Limerick
On Free VerseI must be -- me
to be not, would be
contradictions more foul than those in D.C.
irrelevant, you chastise
make your feelings relate
to be a poet
but is not...
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Categories:
petered, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
ResolutionsAbstract
A fresh beginning,
Like a new breath of air,
In Nature's nostalgic atmosphere!
New birth.
New beginnings.
New thoughts and ideas.
New dreams.
No matter how thinly stretched and petered out,
Or...
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Categories:
petered, courage, dream, environment, faith,
Form:
Verse
On Chance, Fate, Probability, and the Fear of DeathIt's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The...
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Categories:
petered, animal, appreciation, atheist, death,
Form:
Prose
Tale of the Halted*Image of Ready to Break by UCA.
Tale of the Halted
'Tis be a day of echo
and with it, the result
preys on the lips to no
end,...
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Categories:
petered, fire,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Girl On the Shorethe girl on the shore.
my father, he died today
wordless, tearless grief
for the petered life
tendrils of sorrow that curls around your heart, most inconveniently
and the lingering...
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Categories:
petered, death,
Form:
Free verse
All From a Broken PenYou could say spring was in the air
When his ballpoint pen flew apart
Arthur took charge of it's repair
So that made it a work of art!
Declaring...
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Categories:
petered, humor, life, relationship, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
StellaThere once was a blizzard named Stella
Too powerful for an umbrella
But she petered out
Losing all of her clout
Like a post-midnight-clothed Cinderella.
Her wind is still...
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Categories:
petered, storm,
Form:
Limerick
TiredI’m a man whose tired and worn
Empty and dead on my feet,
Petered out, played out, pooped and torn
Burn out, broke down and beat.
Drowsy, droopy, drooping...
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Categories:
petered, satire, silly, words,
Form:
Free verse
Patrice DaySaint Patrice day
In 1957 my ship docked in the town of Cork (Ireland)
If you think that is a long time ago, you are probably...
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Categories:
petered, absence, blessing, fantasy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Marooned On An Island of NihilismAfter a lifetime
(pronounced like millennium),
where tenacity futilely braced
psyche deeply purpled,
hellishly, and lethally
traced resulting scars -
jackknifed, emasculated
cruelly chaste
sexuality expired, lapsed,
and petered out testosterone
begone to waste,
and how...
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Categories:
petered, absence, abuse, allusion, angst,
Form:
Blank verse
Brainwashing a Greenhorn In My College DenI dubbed a first year my room mate
Upon arrival into our teacher training college
To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate
Taking him...
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Categories:
petered, poems,
Form:
Free verse