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Best Plunked Poems

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


Premium Member The Dress
It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now...

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Categories: plunked, 12th grade, dance, high
Form: Couplet
Premium Member New York Street Horse
Plunked down in chaos
from a gentler time,
blinkered from the traffic
he pulls the coach along.
Patient, in his harness bond
he tugs at hearts, with pathos-
as to his...

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Categories: plunked, animal, courage, dedication, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Had a Martini: Ok, Maybe Four
It'd been one of the most bizarre days; downright crazy
so I had a martini, maybe four, so things got kinda hazy
I fumbled in my wallet...

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Categories: plunked, humor,
Form: Rhyme



No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: plunked, parody,
Form: Limerick
Zig-Zag
How was I to know a lightning bolt
would zig-zag into me? My body lies there on the ground,
a nurse, doing CPR.
Shocked voices. All eyes focused...

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Categories: plunked, 10th grade, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Mate For Moses
I bought him a mate,
     a pretty bird.
He sat there, sullen,
     nary a word.
He wasn't polite,
 ...

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Categories: plunked, animals, funny
Form: Rhyme



Falling In Love With a Writer Is a Faulty Design
Falling in Love with a Writer is a Faulty Design
We see things that other females
don’t pay a tuppence to.
Like a half-burned cigarette tail,
Your osculation of...

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Categories: plunked, beautiful, beauty, love, love
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Anonymously Sold
It happened back in time, quite a long way,
Back in the day, as they today like to say:
An era when most donations to yeshivas** ...

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Categories: plunked, appreciation, education, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Magic Nickel
One day, not so long ago, when I was out playing with my dog Ruff, I met a very old woman. She looked very tired...

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Categories: plunked, children, cute, fantasy, mother
Form: Prose
Evil's No More Comedy
Today, I climbed a high mountain.
Mountain where I shout my disapproval.
Disapproval of today’s social illnesses.
Illnesses shattering the life on earth.
Earth, our valuable mother.

Our kind mother’s...

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Categories: plunked, evil,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Electric Train Set
Dragon always needs to be entertained, or there’s trouble brewing, I Say!
So we got him an electric train set, for him and his penguins the...

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Categories: plunked, childhood, fantasy, friendship, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Barely Know These People
We carry our phones now.
We call them I-phones.
Not sure if this is because we are Internet-aware
Or simply I’s instead of We’s now.
It’s time to exchange...

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Categories: plunked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Tea Party
A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives 
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine...

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Categories: plunked, childhood, fantasy, childrenchild, child,
Form: Narrative
Snowdrop
I was sat ordinarily at my broad, modern grey desk, wearing my normal bottle-green cotton dress because my mother liked it enough to let me...

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Categories: plunked, beautiful, boyfriend, friend, nature,
Form: Haibun
A Shy He-Man Met a Pee Man
A shy he-man met a pee man
                  ...

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Categories: plunked, fun, funny, nonsense,
Form: Limerick