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Best Reasoned Poems

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


Premium Member Do You Remember
Somewhere in a dream, 
Serene and blissful from the start
It comes to me again
The two of us in love, and eagerly alone
Breathlessly naive', and blissfully...

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Categories: reasoned,
Form: Free verse



Lucifer
"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in heaven."

A thousand, million years had fled
then thousand million more,
yet it was still the...

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Categories: reasoned, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: reasoned, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Fire
One can hardly take a breath at all
For brilliance splashed against the wall
has reasoned with a summer's soul
and paints the season with vibrant gold

The brittle...

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Categories: reasoned, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Iii
Oakland County MI                   Democrats   ...

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Categories: reasoned, political,
Form: Narrative



Pen Sated

My auspicious Holiday Muse,
it has a hunger pang...
A pen which merrily sings of words,
joyously written in the heart
Honored friends and guests 
invited freely 
to a...

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Categories: reasoned, allusion, appreciation, holiday, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Wither, Perish
The night is the blackest
and the coldest I've known.
The town, so small
it should not be called a town,
is still with its own malice.
I have grown...

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Categories: reasoned, death, depression, fear, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Coffee Cup Calculations - Poet's Cut
Based on BBC news article "Maths zeroes in on perfect cup of coffee"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37989169


Two billion cups a day we drink
To stay awake so we can think
Tireless...

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Categories: reasoned, drink, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Christmas Haunting
The old man had always had an unnatural fondness 
for the animal but could never seem to bond with human easily, 
with the exception of...

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Categories: reasoned, introspection, christmas, old, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Southern Hospitality
(A Blank Verse Sonnet)

In June, we traveled south to Memphis town,
a public poets' fete with Southern flair.
The mid-south heart unfolded nationwide,
an open cloak of warmth...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reasoned, community, friendship, people, writing,
Form: Sonnet
God Answers Aunt Kate-Repost
For the last few days
     her depression had weighed
          heavy, a thick...

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Categories: reasoned, adventure, depression, funny, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Heart-To-Heart Talk
"Why do you love me, Dear?" she cooed.
    "You're cuddly, cute, and sweet," he said.
    "Your mama's cat is...

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Categories: reasoned, cute, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member One-Upmanship
(Shakespearean Sonnet)

The blue-grass music blares from speaker's face
as guys and gals entwine moon-round the floor,
she sits alone, ignores the dancers' pace
although her ears record the...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reasoned, betrayal, love hurts, music,
Form: Sonnet
Rudolph Gets the Job
Twas on the eve of Christmas and St Nick was feeling glum
because his leading reindeer had some problems with his tum.
With Dasher feeling poorly, Santa...

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Categories: reasoned, funnytime,
Form: Rhyme
The Arrows
"The Arrows"


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Categories: reasoned, anger, hurt, imagery, words,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Shattered Sighs