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Best Portended Poems

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


Premium Member Turning Up Her Imagination
keep the music sorrowfully low,
so big daddy doesn’t hear.
the shadowy figures, surrender
and whisper in your ear.

the psychedelic colors flow
like the sea foam beat.
Angie, your chromatic...

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Categories: portended, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Waiting Out the Rain
*written in real time*


       The clouds portended rain hours earlier
         ...

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Categories: portended, rain, sound, spring, time,
Form: Free verse
On a Lonely Bench
Sitting on a lonely bench,
Memories got me blenched,
Your heart I tried to clench,
Though, the rains got me drenched,
From hearts I needed to entrench...

Your words not...

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Categories: portended, art, change, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fugitives of Justice
Thank god I finally was caught and cited
for doing something that I didn't do.

Just think how much worse I would feel
if I actually had done...

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Categories: portended, community, health, hope, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Centipede Scare
A centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end! 

And while we tried learning about it on Google...

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Categories: portended, fear, giggle, insect,
Form: Ballad



Free Cee Diligence, Deliberation, and a Disregard For Deliverance and Death
DILIGENCE, DELIBERATION AND A DISREGARD FOR                   ...

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Categories: portended, angst, future,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Is That a Trivial Trifle Or a Rifle
IS THAT A TRIVIAL TRIFLE OR A RIFLE?

Weightless
Weightless while watching ripples row their way across a wading pool 
A pool that portended peace
A peaceful pool...

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Categories: portended, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tainted Beyond Belief
Complacent, well being, in a covnant devil attitude. 
Disdained, yet creep compliant in a socio-dick tated preferential,
Momentarily distracted, I give up my circumstance unreliant,
And predispose...

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Categories: portended, angst, death, god, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts On the War of Late
“Where have all the flowers gone,” the poet wrote
A metaphor for those lost in a cruel war of late
Lives that were wrested from home and...

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Categories: portended, how i feel, loss,
Form: Rhyme
An African Dreamer's Dilema
I  dreamt of what I  could  be
when  this faithful  deluge
give up 
when my day 
finally breaks

My bamboo bed
tripled  its...

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Categories: portended, black-african amer
Form: I do not know?
He Got His Life Back
Tainted Oilman Hayward, geologist-in-chief
Oddly opined amidst deep misery and grief 

He said the oil spill would have a modest impact
Did not want the “small people”...

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Categories: portended, angst, business, confusion, life,
Form: Couplet
That 9 11 Day
That 9/11 Day

I was eager that day, 
Just as I was 
Any other day, 
To start my work, 
And state the statistics,  
Discourage clientelle,
Validate...

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Categories: portended, america, anniversary, death, evil,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Free Cee Is That a Trifle Or a Rifle
IS THAT A TRIFLE OR A RIFLE?
waiting
Weightless
weight less than a pound
Weightless while watching ripples row their way across a wading pool 
A pool that portended...

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Categories: portended, angst,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 6c
CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)

Several of the primate children 
Sat together in the branches 
Of a tree; they did not notice 
Danger silently approaching 
 
Through the leaves a brown and...

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Categories: portended, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dejection
"If we allow a deranged mind to control the course of human destiny,

         then we become executioners...

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Categories: portended, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things