Best Proto Poems
Below are the all-time best Proto poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of proto poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
proto, appreciation, beauty, green, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Listening To Russian PoetryThe odor of turnips,
of seasoned cabbage water - borscht
flushed through musing kidneys.
Listening to Zhukovsky, Vysotsky, Tyutchev,
not comprehending a word of it.
Working my way backward
through an...
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Categories:
proto, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Prufrock's Symbolic WorldPrufrock’s Symbolic World
Metaphors-Extraordinaire
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Metaphysical consciousness
Aura of aging and decay.
Streams of consciousness forever
Proto-disillusionment
The mermaids singing each to each
The mermaids will not sing today.
Gary Bateman,...
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Categories:
proto, allegory, imagery, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Sonnet 14, Part 2 of 36. Softly she sits upon my knee.
I doze and drift as the radio squeaks
Of sunspots and the honeybee.
The cab wind whistles and creeks.
I sense monstrous,...
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Categories:
proto, evil, fantasy, fear, horror,
Form:
Sonnet
Seasons of HaikuFrom chaos to cosmos
From cosmos to Barbados
From Barbados to Cricket
Fifty odd years
CAT EEG Resurrection
An original me?
If you know
The fundamental difference
Between 1 and 2
First comes the...
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Categories:
proto, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Odin's BroodOdin's Brood
Tyr, Ziu and Saxnot triple threats to the giants*
Hermoor, Heimdallr, Magni and Thor all so defiant
gods of might and power, protectors of sweet earth
Odin's...
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Categories:
proto, earth, evil, god, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started...
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Categories:
proto, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Speeding UpEarth is becoming something different, something more.
For millions of years proto-humans strode its bounties until
*****sapiens arrived. Once here, humans took millennia
incrementally building improving its...
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Categories:
proto, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Cat Ate the RatI wanted a quiet evening, away from Proto
To order a pizza with loads of ricotta,
And write a poem, with not one interruption,
Savoring a glass of...
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Categories:
proto, magic, poems, words,
Form:
Free verse
Violence of MindOnce a nation
Supremely white as driven snow,
Singularly Christian, white and male,
Purely untarnished, and aglow,
Grandeur unparalleled in fairytale.
Hence a grievance
Punitively bold as bloody hellfire,
Potently prosecuted...
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Categories:
proto, america, anxiety, culture, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Dump Trump the Demagogue Hitler ReincarnateCountdown to Armageddon precariously hinges
potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don
trumps...
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Categories:
proto, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
I do not know?
TwilightIs that you there
I recognize that stair
Those eyes of a faraway dream
Fancy seeing you here, on this twilight day
While walking along this
Sterile...
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Categories:
proto, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
The Match Stick Sagethe match stick
Well if you are an Indian by birth, yes you guessed him,
Saint though by birth, he let any issue just burn to ashes,
Dear...
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Categories:
proto, adventure, angel, care, culture,
Form:
Free verse
'a' Less Museless Poem“A” less Museless Poem
(a lipogram)
How is to be without;
the use of my muse?
Will it be the bedrock...
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Categories:
proto, how i feel, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Rainmine myopic eyes and ears
sensually and auditorially seduced
analogous to a melodic aire
this quick rhythmic stuttering transposes
...
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Categories:
proto, earth day, environment, nature,
Form:
I do not know?