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


Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: plates, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We'Ll Always Have San Andreas
-rearranging the stars-

How could we agree to separation? 
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...

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Categories: plates, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Where the Heart Resides
Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea

Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...

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Categories: plates, heart, love, me, old,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Party
The Party


Everyone is festive
All the ladies in pretty dresses

Champagne in flutes
Flirts in Armani suits

Waiters and penguins
Serving wine and cheeses

Musicians playing tango delights
Diplomats avoiding land mines...

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Categories: plates, conflict, poets, society, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Periodical and Rash
elements combine
elements are periodical
periodical books bore
periodical tables
tables made of symbols
tables without plates
plates are round
plates which hold pi
pi is a formula
pi is a tool
tool for a...

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Categories: plates, allegory,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member The Mayor of Soup Creek
The sun rose in the east creating a bright orange hue
Tom lay in his bunk thinking, can it really be true? 
The good townsfolk had...

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Categories: plates, america, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Dinner Gone Awry
It was my first Thanksgiving dinner as his wife
so I wanted the meal to be perfect in every way
But...trembling in fear, I cut my finger...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plates, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Christmases Past
It gradually turned chilly between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although Frosty the Snowman rarely visited our part of Texas, his pal, Jack Frost, surely did. ...

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Categories: plates, christmas, giving, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: plates, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tea Leaves On the Bosphorus
Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the...

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Categories: plates, adventure, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Narrative
The Children Eating Grass
Often wondering is it a steak upon Our Plates that is important...
Perhaps a Hot-dog instead and more Money for a healing deportment.
To feed a Child...

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Categories: plates, abuse, care, character, conflict,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Loosening the Air Bag
Slipping into my silver-gray SUV
Nicknamed  " Sly Buster Cruiser”
I speed off down the rocky, off-highway road.
Twisting and reeling like my wired mind,
windows down, sunroof...

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Categories: plates, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light
Not
loved by
the critics,
artist Kinkade
adds a special glow
to his pastoral art.
A number of plates graced with
his cozy scenes adorn my home.
Kinkade understands a woman's heart.

Written Dec....

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Categories: plates, art,
Form: Nonet
Precious Moments
Cherry wood accents, glass entombed

precious moments captured, enshrined

antique curio cabinet, bring me back in time

that porcelain doll, great gram's pearl

painted piercing eyes still reflecting her...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plates, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: plates, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Shattered Sighs