Get Your Premium Membership

Best Poetic Licence Poems

Below are the all-time best Poetic Licence poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of poetic licence poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Poetic Licence
I’ve renewed my poetic licence
Just hope it won’t ever expire

Poetry has become a bit of an addiction
My words can be fact or they could be...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, humorous, me, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Poetic Licence
Poetic Licence

I've been granted my Poetic Licence,
Which allows me to write as I find.
Exaggeration here, embellishment there,
A free spirited open mind.

With vivid inspired imagination,
I see...

Read more of this work...
© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poetic licence, adventure, animal, imagination, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadow Play
Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ouch - Little White Lies
My hubby just fell out of bed
He banged his elbow and his head
Now I can hear groaning
Expletives and moaning
I’m certain that he isn’t dead!

Only the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, humorous, hurt, sleep,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Chimera World
Misleading, minacious maze now thwarted,
eschews stealth as sandal-clad steps resound.
Determined and dour, destiny draws near;
completing this quest: forever renowned.

Stygian sky grants a much-welcomed boon:
conformable clouds...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, angel, fantasy, hero, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bad Mouth Brigade
A vindictive old crone called Skyla
Her comments could not be more vile’a
She will give folk such flack
Stabbing them in the back
Well 'madam' I don’t like...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, bullying, poetry, words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unhappy Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s, cupid may fail
No flowers or cards in the mail
Our postie called Mike
Joined colleagues on strike 
Their actions are beyond the pale!

Our postal workers...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, sad love, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ggrrrrr the Spider Has Returned
I prepare myself for a deep relaxing bath
but that dratted spider was out to have a laugh

As I pour scented bubble bath into the water
Spidey...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, home, humorous, insect,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sensational Spring
Spring's arrived at last, she wears her green dress
as I go rambling on lush verdant hills
This season's so special I will confess
I pick some beautiful...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, spring,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member I'M Leaving On a Jetski
How to ride a jetksi I don’t know
But my rucksack’s packed and I must go
To see a gal across the Irish Sea

Spent five grand on...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, missing you, parody, sea,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
I can’t always remember what I said
So maybe these may be words you’ve already read
But once I get a line in my head 
I can’t...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, humorous, mum, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
Power of the Pen
History has often shown, that with acumen,
the sword pales in comparison to a Poet’s pen!
It cuts, not as does the sword forged from steel,
but with...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Irony - a Real Fisherman's Tale
He wanted to go and catch scallops
gets into a boat called a shallops*
He didn’t look at the time
And had committed a crime
It’s into the court...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, fishing, humorous, irony, jobs,
Form: Limerick
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Teachers Hate Cheaters
An English teacher named Rosie
Thought one of her pupils was dozy
He’d cribbed off the web
From a man in Zagreb
The language he’d used was too prosy!


In...

Read more of this work...
Categories: poetic licence, humorous, school,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things