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Best Plopped Poems

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


Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: plopped, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Poet's Happy Dream
I found myself against a willow propped.
The stones nearby me were a hundred-fold.
and one by one I tossed them as they plopped
into a rill while...

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Categories: plopped, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Memories and Ghosts
In the two days since my arrival, Granddad and I exchanged only a few predictable, cursory words.

“You sleep okay?” Granddad asked.

Although his silent house had...

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Categories: plopped, family, grandfather, memory, silence,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Just Peachy
The moon ripe as a Georgia peach,
plopped itself upon the blue-blackened,
scalloped edge of the deciduous forest,
topping the syrupy squiggle of horizon
as it bled into the...

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Categories: plopped, nature
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Concert
Drumming along on steering wheel
And dashboard, to rhythm and beats
8-track drowning out giddy squeals,
Till butts plopped down in venue seats.

The buzzing crowd was everywhere
All walks...

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Categories: plopped, adventure, music, people, song,
Form: Rhyme



Summertime Fun - On the Beach
Summertime Fun – On the Beach

When I’m feeling hot, hot, hot,
the beach is certainly my ideal fun spot!
Wearing sunglasses and floppy hat plopped on my...

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Categories: plopped, beach, fun, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Never Dream Within a Dream
-honestly...I have no clue why...-

As I began to rest in my fickle dream
Suddenly I was stirred from my sleep
I was greeted by many a whisker
And...

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Categories: plopped, adventure, analogy, animal, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Cultural Events
Art Gallery. Museum. Parks. Zoo.
Cultural Events.
Glazed like raku pottery
In charcoal rainbows warbled all dark
On pidgeon necks
Like hell’s angels, dumbed,
Blowing smoke through your mind
In a haze...

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Categories: plopped, urbancity, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Water
“Don’t turn your back on the water...” my grandmother told me as I
skimmed stones across the tiny ripples of rock pools. 
Small scaly creatures and...

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Categories: plopped, family,
Form: Free verse
The Starling of Spring With Shakespearean Subplot
Plucked from Shakespeare 
and plopped in Central Park,
Sturnus vulgaris, the mimic,
conquered New York.

It made it there,
You know it made it everywhere;

The continental stage stolen.

And here...

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Categories: plopped, bird, history, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sad Tale You May Want To Skip
True stories are often the saddest, so go to another poem if you 
are afraid of this one.
Seventy-five years ago a Mommy died leaving a...

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Categories: plopped, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tick Tocking
She closed  the door behind her with tears locking 
millions of cogs , snapped shut
Clock stopped ticking, tocking 
For a moment
I stare, already knowing
The...

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Categories: plopped, friendship, people,
Form: Free verse
Word Flirt
Prose
                        ...

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Categories: plopped, fun, words,
Form: Alliteration
Vladimir Stole Santa's Reindeer
There's been a breaking news report about Santa's reindeer.
While flying over Russia, they were lassoed by vile Vladimir!
"I'm determined to ruin Christmas for everyone this...

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Categories: plopped, christmas, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Purple Pixie
Once upon a time, Prunella
dwelt amid a magic wood
a dainty pixie most rare
whose temperament wasn't good

Last one of her purple line
in that dreary, dreaded glen
where...

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Categories: plopped, fairy, fantasy, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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