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Best Phrased Poems

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


Premium Member Jewelry Notebook
"MARRY ME" -- The Sweethearts Valentine Candy

I write with passion in every line,
A poet bleeding words, in black and white

Elegant, like a fine glass of...

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Categories: phrased, happiness, heart, me, sweet,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bruised Syllables
A letter to my wounds,
fragranced with powdered incense,
every word woven from carnelian ink,
beauty lies in the readers heart,
bruised syllables define nothing,
when everything phrased and vented,
are...

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Categories: phrased, emotions, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member alarming algorithm
 to the faceless 
   names I’ve phased, 
forgive the silent sunsets, 
    frozen in time, 
  and remember...

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Categories: phrased, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Might Have Been
As we age we regret words of anger and spite
That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid.
The remarks we thought clever or proved we...

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Categories: phrased, heartbreak, introspection, loss, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Does Anyone Care
I know you're out there
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place...

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Categories: phrased, appreciation, introspection, poetry, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gus
Many are the 'characters' I met while serving my nation.
Seems there's always one who stands out in every organization!
In Bermuda (where I fought the Korean...

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Categories: phrased, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy 100th Birthday, Joyce
I do not know you well, Joyce
     But I know your poetry
         ...

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Categories: phrased, birthday, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Before Him I Stood
He entered the hall and took a seat
in the back row, trying to be discreet
Something in the expression he wore
seemed to convey that he knew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phrased, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Care To Spare
I know you're out there ...
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but...

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Categories: phrased, analogy, care, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Brush of Ars Poetica
A BRUSH OF ARS POETICA


Rhythmic verses wherein death paints a picturesque of life
or life itself is written in lethargic-dying state:
a dusty stocked vocabulary still cuts...

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Categories: phrased, imagery, inspiration, poems, poetry,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member A-Z Musically
abstracted bass, cacophonic drums echoing.
fretting guitars, humming in jubilation.
knackish lyrics, melancholy narrated opus.
phrased quartets, rare sonorous texture.
upbeat virtuoso, windy xaphoons yodel Zep....

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phrased, music,
Form: ABC
The Grass Is Greener
We’re not called upon to choose anything we live through;
Neither parent nor sibling nor school nor form of sinew;
Neither colour of hair or eye or...

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Categories: phrased, africa, hate, history, home,
Form: Limerick
Linguistic Dreams
Strokes of eloquence
breathe airbrushed scenes
painting my world in linguistic dreams

How tasteless bland these buds would be
If phrased thy love were unspoken to me
like honey barren...

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Categories: phrased, dream, emotions, language, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...

what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most...

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Categories: phrased, friendship, loss, memory, missing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Professor Watts' Resurrection
Double-binding Win-Win
nondual manifest destiny of health
as wealth of eco-consciousness,
like double-transparency of ecologic's Yang,
with eco-normic YinYin-square-rooted
c-squared = e-squared = Language-squared,
Positive OVER AND WITH double-negative
subjective/objective Time's decomposing...

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Categories: phrased, culture, environment, math, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs