Best Phonies Poems
Below are the all-time best Phonies poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of phonies poems written by PoetrySoup members
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
phonies, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales...
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Categories:
phonies, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Bedlam BluesCain killed Abel on a Monday night
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?”...
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Categories:
phonies, allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form:
Political Verse
Wedding Bell BluesThe tradition of marriage,
Bourgeois blackmail and baggage,
Is it all a bargain for men,
Is this what white weddings meant?
All the love that is lost,
And what is...
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Categories:
phonies, husband, romance, romantic, society,
Form:
Free verse
A Few of My Suckiest Things With Apologies To Julie AndrewsStubbing my toeses and whiskers on women
Stepping on nettles and by a swarm of bees bitten
Bounded like hostages tied up with strings
These are a few...
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Categories:
phonies, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Three DreamsAs a child I had recurring dreams
Of Indians, death and gorilla themes.
The Indians rode on painted ponies,
So real they seemed, they couldn't be phonies.
Turned out...
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Categories:
phonies, death, dream, life,
Form:
Couplet
Life's a Gamble 1Life's a gamble, you gon' take that chance?
Damn right, I'm 'bout cash, you know what fills my pants
That charge carry life, you gon' stay on...
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Categories:
phonies, life, metaphor, people, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Gotta Get Down To Go Upyou gotta join in the struggle for the ill-gotten gains
of the movers and the shakers on the streets Wall and Main
we will take what we...
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Categories:
phonies, rap,
Form:
Free verse
The Lighter Side of MeI’m not much into phonies
And I love to play the ponies
I spend too much shoppin’
And do too less moppin’
I love my amazing hubby
My fantastic...
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Categories:
phonies, lifelove,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Holden CaulfieldOde to Holden Caulfield
I'm not even going to mention that term you scattered so ubiquitously throughout your memoir
It's pretentious to bring it up, like I'm...
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Categories:
phonies, loneliness, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Ode
PoetacracyPoliticians put their souls for sale
So they can sip cocktails
Riding the coattails of the working class
It's a mass barrage of phonies and poison gas
But everyone's...
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Categories:
phonies, america, anger, political, spoken
Form:
Free verse
Tight EndBeatin' this path 'til my heart stop
cause any moment my heart. could. stop.
Swear any day my chest might pop
So sit tight, bout to open up...
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Categories:
phonies, age, allusion, anxiety, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Unrighteous Self-PityIf you know how to die you know how to live.
Listen to Bryant
In the basement by the light bulb.
Live and Let Die
Let Me Die First.
(Release...
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Categories:
phonies, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Leading YouLeading you!
Close your eyes let me show you the way
Not a hit movie or child's play
Let me reveal some things to you this day
Answer questions...
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Categories:
phonies, humor, leadership,
Form:
Lyric
Five From LAin a room laced with gloom
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone
a sad song she struggles she...
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Categories:
phonies, society,
Form:
Free verse