Get Your Premium Membership

Best Propositions Poems

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


Premium Member In All the Crummy Little Barrooms of the Soul
I wait in all the crummy
little barrooms of the soul.
I look about and sniff the air,
drink, and wait.
In the demi-world of honky-tonks,
which vie against night's
inner...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Her Sin
Squatting next to a garbage bin,
she dons a fake smile that doesn't fit.
And though track marks tattoo her skin,
her addiction won't let her quit.

Abused by...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, abuse, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Desert Flower
A desert flower shrouded in black,
she exudes the sweetness of a rose.
And sidles away from my approach,
her emotions hidden by a veil.

Dazzling eyes of cerulean...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, beautiful, culture, desire, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My New Year Resolutions
"It is so easy to make resolutions, but to keep them is an uphill task"~ By Poet

We take new resolutions on each New Year’s Day,
But...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, celebration, character, funny,
Form: Couplet
Constructive Critism
There's consequences in all we say and do 
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk 
Quite distraught due...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan

33.  on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime...

Read more of this work...
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propositions, america, conflict, culture, ,
Form: Free verse
Solar Plexus Sun of the Soul 2
Tiphereth

Centre, She, who holds the light
Connection abundant placed to description
Concentration, He, in all the names
Of beauty
Filtered from the through put out pouring skies
Entrusted to perception
Before...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, devotion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fantasy Dreams
Illusions are smoke and mirrors;
the sky's black, and yet, we see blue.
And like sheep, we're led by shearers
whose reality blocks our view.

Flashing neon propositions
youth as...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, city, drug, how i
Form: Quatrain
Among the Insipid Faces
Opposed within the same genus
A recognition of man's existence
I try to inverse the Truth
Thus the latter becomes defined as oblivion
And shallow existence
Those things that cannot...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, change,
Form: Concrete
Just Say "no"
There is so strongly grained in me
some ideas like saying “no” just
saying “no” to certain propositions,
my Catholic upbringing, or upbringing
in common with inclination.  I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, inspirationalnice, nice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Regretting Cake
(Not) Regretting Cake

Never ending restrictions are slave driver’s tools a debatable concept wielding

Onslaughts on conscience asceticism zero sums zero size and perfection

To not trespass the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, power, prejudice,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Not So Friendly Discussions
Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
Prime
Prime….
How can you shape your life?
If there are no prime in nature then how can step in lawfully.
If you had no keys to door that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, change,
Form: ABC
September Nights
darkness sneaks in
through moonlit-creased skies
and scribbles on these lonely walls,
it's not night that propositions me,
it's memories (and you) 
coming from within long, lonely nights
that echo...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, longing, missing, night, september,
Form: Free verse
Knock Me Out
KNOCK ME OUT
                      ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: propositions, beauty, rose,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs