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


Leonard Cohen Was Right
Standing before the microphone,
blank faces stare from cushioned chairs
Jewels sparkle, acting like they’re real,
while bow ties just seem sad…it happens

Marching to the beat of clicking...

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Categories: plucks, poetry,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Reflections From a Toiling Sonneteer
One’s poetry not always will unfold
beneath its author’s pen as some suppose.
And poetry one is to yet behold
might slowly bloom before one plucks that rose.

At...

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Categories: plucks, on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain
Beautiful Rose
She stands at the garden wall
Smells the sweetness of the pink rose
A sweetness only matched by her beauty
A color only matched by the blush of...

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Categories: plucks, love
Form: Free verse
Nana's Garden
You won't find a yard like this anymore. You'd think it would seem smaller now that I'm an adult, but it doesn't. It's still enormous,...

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Categories: plucks, childhood, family, house, garden,
Form: Haibun
A Cigarette Betrayed
I’m living in anticipation
With other cigarettes who are also growing impatient 
We’re waiting
Praying 
To be the next chosen one 
Now, the door opens and we’re...

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Categories: plucks, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Realm of the Lyrical Poetess
How I admire the lyrical poetess!
She, who watches nature's beauty all around,
yearns to feel the wind of summer's soft caress
as she listens for the magic...

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Categories: plucks, people, song-lyric
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Two Faced Heaven
TWO FACED HEAVEN


I walk slow in a globe of puffy clouds 
Dancing midair, a concerto, harp plucks
From right to left are angels in white shrouds
their...

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Categories: plucks, character, christian, earth, heaven,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Lifting the Veil
Lifting the Veil

You see, Mr Bilton, Sir
This trumpet that you gave me
Fails my musical sense to stir
A guitar would surely save me

A guitar is all...

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Categories: plucks, music,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Sheriff's Last Ride
When visions crawl into his dream
to grate against a hilltop’s ire,
a sheriff flicks like soft campfire
where hazy winds dip low ,midstream.
Bandit frays stab a roguish...

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Categories: plucks, nostalgia, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hungarian Rhapsody
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.

The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendiferous precision.

Drama drops onto piano keys
occasionally taking a gentle...

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Categories: plucks, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Modern Day Achilles Heel
this boy - 
he is mythology
he is the pomegranate sitting in persephone's 
palm - 
(looks can be deceiving)

this boy - 
he is a mirror
can show...

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Categories: plucks, anger, metaphor, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quirky Twists and Turns
*Like Caesar I wrote this in the 3rd person:) 

In third person he talks just like Caesar
Stuffing bagfuls of sweets in the freezer
Mumbles loud in...

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Categories: plucks, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member String-Movements
When evening’s bass tone whips a refrain
Strummed by an old man  in our country yard; 
A most haunting string--movement  dims the air
Reminiscent of...

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Categories: plucks, music, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Petal Plucker
She whispers, “He loves me; he loves me not,”
as she plucks the dewy petals off a daisy.
She thinks of the misery that loving him has...

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Categories: plucks, abuse,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member In One Bite
Love take me 
in one breath away 
fruit of dreams 
your are 
the sweet aroma 
in one's mind eclipsed

Angel feathers 
striking records time 
Harp plucks...

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Categories: plucks, angel, beautiful, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs