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Best Pokes Poems

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


Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: pokes, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: pokes, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Immigrants why do you come?
Whether you are spiritual or mathematical etc. This is our Karma:

Isacc Newton’s 3rd Law
For every action, there is an equal and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pokes, how i feel, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Old Pick-Up Truck
He begs me to come, but he's run out of luck
You won't catch me dead in that beat-up old truck!
It was painted blue...now the color...

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Categories: pokes, dog, funny, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Life With Fruit
STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT

In spite of the orchard
A far white moon dominates
Its sick room presence lifts the eye

Still life with fruit –
Crescent dish with bananas,...

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Categories: pokes, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Exit 7b
1.
they say everything here is
somewhere in the middle of the road
where names get bleached and keys forget about their doors
and there is something we should...

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Categories: pokes, feelings, imagery, lost, urban,
Form: Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: pokes, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
The Obeah Woman
The Obeah Woman

Heavy musty air reeks with the Obeah Woman’s pungent perfume, 
sweat, burnt incense, bitter roots, and swirling black smoke,
dim light from a waning...

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Categories: pokes, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Giant's Dream Jars
In the centre of the silence, a giant fills the space
He carries but a trumpet and a battered old suitcase
I watched with baited breath, the...

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Categories: pokes, children, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden
GARDEN

Two haiku after a painting by Russell Gordon

flowering dogwood
perched and pert, a tanager
harkens to the wind

flowering dogwood
perched and pert, just listening
scarlet tanager
………………………………..

this plaster statue
she’s naked,...

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Categories: pokes, nature,
Form: Haiku
Type- Writing Class
A.S.D.F……..he typed,
Retyped,
Again did it, again, again………
Tick….tick, tick….tick……minutes sicken.

Soon his nearby seat she took,
A new student with hairs black,
Just a glance,
Next day, a smile, sprouted silent...

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Categories: pokes, love
Form: Free verse
Give Me a Break I Am Pms Ing
I may slap you, curse you, smack you
Don’t get too serious honey, its monthly fun
I am PMS ing and my trauma is true
Be my gentleman...

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Categories: pokes, caregiving, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, growing
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dewberry Cobbler
"Caleb, go fetch me some dewberries from the fence row," Momma says, 
as I polish off my Saturday morning breakfast. "I'll make us a cobbler."...

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Categories: pokes, growing up,
Form: Haibun
Has It Been a Year Already-I Added a Few More
As thephilosopher  readies for his p soup anniversary 
Remembering he found this place last Christmas Day
Surely the best gift he did receive
Now for some...

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Categories: pokes, dedication, funny,
Form: Clerihew
Facebook Friends
Facebook is a website we can talk and play
Many applications to while away the day
I have made many friends some new and old
Many conversations and...

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Categories: pokes, friendshippeople, friendship, people,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things