Best Real Poems
Below are the all-time best Real poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of real poems written by PoetrySoup members
Real Men Wear PinkI stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...
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Categories:
real, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
real, people,
Form:
Free verse
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
real, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Alice Sweet Alice~Alice Sweet Alice~
*Like Sisters*
Everyday -- Holding Hands
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
...
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Categories:
real, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
real, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
real, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
Cup of EmptyShe pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams
Moonbeams...
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Categories:
real, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At PoetrysoupA
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a
few forests. A ruby red swirls within
its petals beckons awareness of those...
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Categories:
real, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form:
Shape
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
real, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
real, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...
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Categories:
real, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
real, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
real, music,
Form:
Narrative
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
real, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
Waterfall Wishes On Stars With No SwingsWaterfall wishes on stars with no swings
I’m sending to you on butterfly wings.
Pennies are wasted on a wishing well.
Pennies instead for sweet thoughts that you...
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Categories:
real, dream, love,
Form:
Quatern