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Best Premise Poems

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


Paradoxical Premise
Stands on the land of heterodox
Who's the mightiest God of all?
People live and die on their equivocation thoughts

Those who exclaimed about the God who never...

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Categories: premise, god, inspiration, introspection, life,
Form: Terzanelle



Premium Member Beneath the Shattered
Test me
I am willing
To fail

Failure
Is not fatal
At all

All things
Are born to be
Broken

Break free
From the outer
Hard shell

Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within

With love
Flowing freely
We glow

Glowing
For all the world
To...

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Categories: premise, birth, courage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Another Man's Clothes
I wonder
Who I might become
If I wore another man's clothes
If I thought his thoughts
Dreamed his dreams
Lived his heartache
Felt his insanity
Walked along his razor's edge

Would I
Understand
Empathize
Digest...

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Categories: premise, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: premise, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Speaking With Shakespeare
I ran into Shakespeare the other day.
Told him I too am writing a play.
He asked about the premise, which was a reeler.
I had no idea...

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Categories: premise, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: premise, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On God's Existence
What am I?*

Am I just a matter?
Am I just spirit?
Or
Am I a combination of spirit and matter?

If we examine the first case- that I am...

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Categories: premise, faith, god, people, universe,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Wild And Free
Psyches on the edge
Psyches going wild
Wild child oh so daring 
Wild one hellish bold 
Bold and downright brazen
Bold though fiercely blind
Blind to subtle logic 
Blind...

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Categories: premise, birth, care, deep, destiny,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member The Rebel No Anima No Animus
Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

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Categories: premise, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frequency
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately 

that which...

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Categories: premise, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Long Count Calendar, Cycle One Ends
The Long Count Calendar, Cycle One Ends

December twenty-first, two thousand and twelve –
The Mayan long count calendar sets sights on that year.
Are there ecological and...

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Categories: premise, religion, sciencetime, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embryonic Time Travelers
Time travel has always fascinated man
Could UFOs be steered by human hands
Consider this premise before you say no
So called “grays” resemble human embryos

Evolution proceeds, gene...

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Categories: premise, science, visionaryautumn, may,
Form: Quatrain
Make a Wish Oh Make a Wish My Starryeyed Child
Tonight I write this here lullaby

Blissfully a sat watching the setting
sun disappearing over yonder field 

Whilst listening to the breeze
lean and creak the whistling tree's
astray

Waving...

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Categories: premise, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strategy of Writing a Poem
generate a premise
hatch an outline
originate a concept
produce a rough draft
introduce uniqueness
or just wing it
voila
a 
poem...

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Categories: premise, poems, writing,
Form: Free verse
No Reasonable Explanation
There’s no suitable explanation for
me- no premise by premise,
with a slight scent of rosed misconceptions
leading to my conclusion.

Scientists? Well they’d have me
believe i’m the effect...

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Categories: premise, life, love, thank you,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs