Best Placement Poems
Below are the all-time best Placement poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of placement poems written by PoetrySoup members
Once Upon a Purple SunriseOnce Upon a Purple Sunrise
Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.
Haloed in hazy...
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Categories:
placement, memory, morning, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Sham of My HumanityEvergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...
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Categories:
placement, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Belle of the BallMy dress is made of fine peach coloured lace
Hair is in ringlets, which frames my pretty face
The lights in the room cast a romantic glow
My...
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Categories:
placement, dance, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumn AfterglowAutumn Afterglow
As halcyon summer days
wave goodbye
Bucolic trees seen from
an autumn sky
Become a cynosure
...
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Categories:
placement, autumn, beauty, october, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Night-Blooming JasmineNight-Blooming Jasmine
expert seducer with soft silky lips, silver blue moon
sweetly kisses a slumbering beauty awakening desire;
greeting her lover, Night-Blooming Jasmine unfolds perfumed petals
11-02-2015
Contest: ...
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Categories:
placement, beauty, flower, moon, nature,
Form:
Sijo
Last Breath of SunsetRoyal blue sky scattered sapphire clouds
On horizon embroidered in navy blue attire
Summoned by the onset of marigold sun
Emitting amber gold on tuscan yellow fire
Where...
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Categories:
placement, heartbreak, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Rainbow Promise
He has announced his arrival. She waits,
Listening to the thunder cracking through
the layers of air. Looking at the lightning,
brightening and frightening the darkness away,
Lapping up...
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Categories:
placement, earth, rain,
Form:
Personification
To Dreamland On Sunset's LullabyTo Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby
Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.
To...
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Categories:
placement, Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Lyric
Midsummer BreezeMidsummer Breeze
How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...
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Categories:
placement, flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
Screaming At the SkyScreaming at the Sky
Mothers screaming mournfully at a deaf sky
holding their heads helplessly as they cry
pitiful tears for innocent, defenseless children slaughtered
in fatal cross...
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Categories:
placement, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form:
Verse
Toilers At the TrenchPlunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.
Attached to shovel handles were the arms...
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Categories:
placement, history, sad,
Form:
Couplet
When Love Found MeWhen Love Found Me
What a wonderful, magical surprise!
Sometimes love arrives in disguise.
I never saw this coming,
never anticipated such an awesome blessing.
I was at the right...
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Categories:
placement, blessing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
December MagicDecember Magic
Waltzing with the wind,
in crocheted gowns of white lace…
flurries of snowflakes
sway to sweet divine music...
that only angels can hear.
12-24-2014
Contest: ...
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Categories:
placement, beauty, december, magic, snow,
Form:
Tanka
Let My Quill Always Write Even If UnheardA very wise woman once said I must write just for me.
Let there be no other reason for e x p r e s...
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Categories:
placement, confidence, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Dear ExDear Ex,
I know you and I had our differences.
We were always finding new ways to say I loathe you.
It was my blameworthiness that allowed the...
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Categories:
placement, life, recovery from...rain, rain,
Form:
Free verse