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Below are the all-time best Ready To Hand(P) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ready to hand(p) poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member T'Was the Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), christmas, humor,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Briton Riviere: Christ In the Wilderness
After I thought a while it seemed clear
it wasn’t the yap, yap, buzz, ring, chat
that drove him away from the city.
Nor the police alarm yaw-yahing...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), christian, culture, devotion, faith,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A Poet's Dawn
I love the smell of the lake at dawn,
It's so peaceful here, just to sit and listen
No sounds but the waves slapping,
 against the shore.
Birds...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ready to hand(p), adventure, beauty, fantasy, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Beach Ball
Plastic rainbow of my own hot air.

Blowing into it all my frustrations.

Give it a strike to show it whose boss.

How quickly I’m mesmerized as I...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), beach, cheer up, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barco Do Boa Vista 2
Barco do Boa Vista 2 

Windswept, worn and weary sails
You might think that this boat ails
But with sound and sturdy, solid mast
She sails the ocean's...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), art, beach, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



3 Kings In Search of New Agong
THREE KINGS IN SEARCH OF NEW AGONG

So you see lah! dese three big noise fellas come last time outstation
To Judea now got Israel - visa...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), allusion, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Without a Word of a Lie
WITHOUT A WORD OF A LIE


Please Sir, I’m sorry my homework is late.
I tried very hard to complete my verse.
But I’ve had writer’s block, which...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), animal, homework, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wake
Wake

What is that noise?
I have heard it before?
In the ramblings...
of my loved ones words? 

I must get up and seek it out.
I rise like the...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ready to hand(p), allah, celebrity, cinco de
Form: Narrative
Whistiling Past the Graveyard
A dull ache becomes masked by a generous shot. More and more opium pours into her trampled vein. Her heart slowly beats, the mania creeps,...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), abuse, angst, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Southern Hospitality and a Shot of Comfort
There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), america, car, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Cheese Dip Slip
Cheese dip slip


The cheddar and gouda were ready, my hand with the knife very steady
The party was moments away and I had to be quick

The...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
A Working Bee
The worker bees, are a hardy bunch,
They wake at four, and prepare their lunch.
It’s off to the mines, for another day,
To stir the pots, and...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), beautiful, environment, humor, work,
Form: Rhyme
2014 Style Breakdown
Born in a neighborhood where crime is the law
Mom dragged me out before I had learned to talk
Out of the frying pan, into the flame
Into...

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© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ready to hand(p), anger, angst, fear, life,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Met Him
MET HIM
                       ...

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Categories: ready to hand(p), dance, emotions, hero, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Map
The Map

In life we choose the direction of our feet, 
often by the way those around us expect us to go. 
Shockingly, striking out on...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ready to hand(p), 12th grade, death of
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things