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Best Quirt Poems

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

Be Free, My Brothers

Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: quirt, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme

State of the Art Iii

State of the Art (III)

These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that...

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Categories: quirt, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Horseplay

I was working cattle with a crew a little south of Muleshoe,
When I watched a horse work with perfection and grace.
I said "pardon me gent,...

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Categories: quirt, horse,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Poems About Poems Ii

Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any...

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Categories: quirt, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

What Lies Beneath a Lie

I  have  harnessed  my power, 
And  I  have  unleashed  its full potential, 
I  am  in full...

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Categories: quirt, life, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme

Old As Dirt

You know that you’re old as dirt
When your whole body does hurt—
You grab a cane ‘stead of quirt
And you’re just too old to flirt.

It’s when...

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Categories: quirt, cowboy-western, funny, life, people,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Two Broken Souls, Part Ii

...“From that day on I was just a damned whore,
two years I spent in that place on my back,
when I had finally paid back what...

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Categories: quirt, dark, depression, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Bemused

beMUSEd
by Michael R. Burch

Perhaps at three
you'll come to tea,
to have a cuppa here?

You'll just stop in
to sip dry gin?
I only have a beer.

To name the...

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Categories: quirt, art, inspiration, inspirational, muse,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poets Iv

Poems about Poets IV



The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for June Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death,...

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Categories: quirt, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Old As Dirt

You know that you’re old as dirt
When ever thang done hurt—
And you trades a cane for quirt
‘Cause you’s too old to flirt.

And when you have...

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Categories: quirt, cowboy-western, funny, introspection, old,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Orpheus

Orpheus
by Michael R. Burch
 
after William Blake

I.
Many a sun
and many a moon
I walked the earth
and whistled a tune.
 
I did not whistle
as I worked:
the whistle...

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Categories: quirt, romantic, song, symbolism, uplifting,
Form: Verse

Musin's of a Horse

I was daydreamin' the other day a-munchin' on my oats,
Gazin' across the pasture at the cows, sheep and goats.
Them fellers sure do live a life...

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Categories: quirt, life, old,
Form: Rhyme

Tuning William Blake's Whistle

Tuning William Blake's Whistle
by Michael R. Burch

a musical prophecy, after William Blake

I.

Many a sun
and many a moon
I walked the earth
and whistled a tune.

I did not...

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Categories: quirt, freedom, miracle, muse, music,
Form: Verse

Because Of This Hurt

I gained back all my trust
after I freed myself from guilt,
and not suffered much from it;
ah, bravery taught me a lot! 

Because of this hurt,
I...

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Categories: quirt, anger, anxiety, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme