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Best Proper Poems

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


Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: proper, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stardust Road
“Stardust Road.”

"Soft defense is driven by my thoughts,
I vanish away into yesterday’s scenic road,
Set the mood among the dark clouds,
Wish I could go back to...

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Categories: proper, adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: proper, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer's End
SUMMER’S END *

Down her meadow’s sweetness
By name of Summer’s End
This smallish thatch work cottage
With it’s proper artful sign
Hung at eaves with slightest tilt
By portal in...

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Categories: proper, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: proper, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: proper, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Precisely
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Perfect, 
always aligned alphabetically
(even the space between you and me)
is proper 
and positioned, 
Precisely


Clearly,
clothing is optional
(as continents collide)
It is certain
that,
our connection 
is defined as...

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Categories: proper, love, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proper, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member In Your Ruins
I'm lost at sea and weary
          So tossed upon the tides
     ...

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Categories: proper, love, love hurts, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finally
Finally 

Doctor, it's been 7 months 
The MEDs aren't kicking in

My dreams are getting stronger, 
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...

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Categories: proper, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Well-Appointed Cowpoke
A well-appointed cowpoke, of whom there are still a few,
Wanted to be properly clad for his first job interview.
So, to impress his potential and somewhat...

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Categories: proper, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts of 'The Poet'
Day after day I sit, poised deep in thought and contemplation
while tourists stop and stare at me with eyes of admiration
Sometimes they seem hypnotized, looking...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proper, art, imagination,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: proper, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Here I Am My Lord
Here I am, My Lord,

                    ...

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Categories: proper, character, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Good Riddance
I welcomed you twenty twenty, a brand spanking new year
But all you brought with you was death, misery and fear
So I'll be glad to see...

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Categories: proper, death, goodbye, new year,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs