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


The Potato Chip Revolution
spawned in the summer of 1853
these sliced succulent deep fried wonders 
resulted from the demands of a complaining customer
whose bullshit led our man, a one,...

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Categories: popularized, life
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Take This Stinking Keyboard and Shove It
Take This Stinking Keyboard And Shove It
(Tribute to Johnny Paycheck)


Take this stinking keyboard and shove it
I ain't awritin' here no damn more.
Gone is my inspiration,...

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Categories: popularized, art, poetry, song, tribute,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Showcasing Economic Power In a Commanding Fashion
A dry peninsula without internal flowing waters
anointed with the ointment of incredible prosperity
massaged by the fat hands of uncommon wealth
and covered by tight-fitting over-alls,
made out...

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Categories: popularized, earth, nature, society,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Originating From the Sun
That’s what she calls herself
who boasts of the longest reigning monarchy in the world,
producing a short of one to twenty Nobel Prize winners
as only two...

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Categories: popularized, earth, education, environment, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member From An Empire To a Global State
The power of its empire’s influence once shook history from its feet
the number one world olive oil producer;
the home to the world’s largest tomato fight
and...

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Categories: popularized, community, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Ode



Premium Member I Wanted To Get Away
I Wanted To ‘Get Away’   
By Curtis Johnson

Without naming the company, one of my favorite commercials use to be the one featuring ‘embarrassing...

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Categories: popularized, character, chicago, christian, class,
Form: Prose
Don'T Try
don't try My Darling
The fruits of my tree doesn't fall
Hasn’t aftertaste
Wind and rain stripped distance
Deadline to my passion
Distance is did not saturate
Remain in my memory...

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Categories: popularized, africa, angel, arabic, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep In the Mountain Tarns
Deep In The Mountain Tarns

Deep in the mountains,  
  Beyond a lost road,
Mystical spirits
Have their wild abode.

Lonely abysses
Of primeval dread,
Forests were freely 
the...

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Categories: popularized, creation, deep, environment, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
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This is a cliché. That's my name for an old aside or an adage here we...

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Categories: popularized, funny, nostalgia, parody, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Erin Go Bragh
Erin go Bragh

We celebrate Saint Patrick.
He brought Christianity.
The patron saint of Ireland.
Bake soda bread and wear green today.

3-17-22 

~Tenth Place Premiere Contest~
LIND30SU Poetry Contest
Sponsored by:...

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Categories: popularized, celebration, green, holiday, march,
Form: Verse
Who Am I
Rene Descartes popularized
The phrase: Cogito ergo sum-
I think therefore I am. How wise!
If I’m thinking, then it’s presumed
That I exist because of “I”
The one doing...

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Categories: popularized, philosophy
Form: Verse
Sheldon Cooper Tells a Riddle
What would you call the young hatchling, for fun,
Of a buzzard crossed with a flamingo?
The answer is moot ’cause it couldn’t be done,
So the joke...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popularized, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Fords Theater April 15th 1865
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.  

(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, 
and the life and death of 
the sixteenth...

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Categories: popularized, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chatgpt-4 Shockingly Rates One of My Sonnets a 94 Out of 100
“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the...

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Categories: popularized, extended metaphor, satire, sin,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Goody Two Shoes
goody-goody
was she
must say
a bit
too much 
for me

goody shoes
are two
in one
she stuffs
those don'ts
been done

the other 
kept for
her dos
those rights
best left
outta sight

we all
won't see
these things
well done
saved for
foolish...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popularized, care, conflict, feelings, myth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs