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
Poetic LicenceI’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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, humorous, me, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
Poetic LicencePoetic 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, adventure, animal, imagination, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Shadow PlayShadow 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Ouch - Little White LiesMy 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, humorous, hurt, sleep,
Form:
Limerick
Chimera WorldMisleading, 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, angel, fantasy, hero, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Bad Mouth BrigadeA 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, bullying, poetry, words,
Form:
Limerick
Unhappy Valentine's DayThis 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, sad love, valentines day,
Form:
Limerick
Ggrrrrr the Spider Has ReturnedI 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, home, humorous, insect,
Form:
Couplet
Sensational SpringSpring'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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, spring,
Form:
Ottava rima
I'M Leaving On a JetskiHow 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, missing you, parody, sea,
Form:
Lyric
Repetition, Repetition, RepetitionI 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, humorous, mum, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
Power of the PenHistory 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
What Irony - a Real Fisherman's TaleHe 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, fishing, humorous, irony, jobs,
Form:
Limerick
The Wandering MinstrelIn 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, music,
Form:
Ballad
Teachers Hate CheatersAn 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...
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Categories:
poetic licence, humorous, school,
Form:
Limerick