Best Receipts Poems
Below are the all-time best Receipts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of receipts poems written by PoetrySoup members
deceit's receipts
the breadth of breaths a breast can heave
dark depths so delved as falsehoods leave
from tongues, the tangled webs we weave
that trap our own good wills
though...
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Categories:
receipts, angst, conflict, dark, wisdom,
Form:
Alliteration
Call of the WildI envy those living as part of the wild
For I too, once heeded its call
A smoldering ember since I was a child
Urge, and belonging all...
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Categories:
receipts, humanity, journey, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Escaping HumanityFeeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...
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Categories:
receipts, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wrapper's Night Before Christmas(a rhyme revision in stanza 9 in case the sponsor already read this.)
'Twas the night before Christmas. My shopping was done.
But gifts needed wrapping, and...
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Categories:
receipts, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
receipts, goodbye, history,
Form:
Verse
Beloved Pets- For Comp(For Beloved Pets competition, submitted June 16th 2015)
Tell-tale marks from your last climb, those claw marks in the paper
removing the wall coverings better than a...
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Categories:
receipts, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
My WalletMy wallet has credit cards
And my I.D.
(My license to drive
With a picture of me.)
My library card and
My store discount stash
Share limited space with
My limited cash.
Insurance...
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Categories:
receipts, me,
Form:
Rhyme
DeclinedDeclined
Laughing, only to hide the tears,
now gathering in the corners of my mouth,
drowning me…(I should be so lucky)
staring at a reflection in the protective...
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Categories:
receipts, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
WillHe never once mentioned the pressure of his blood
or his Mam
I found dead on the floor
his Dad’s cancer
or his younger brother
not once, during the best...
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Categories:
receipts, age, death, family, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Her Adamant FaceAdamant Face
My mother used to say with an adamant face, "There is a place for everything and for everything a place!”
My goodness, this house is...
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Categories:
receipts, childhood, family, fun, my
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
receipts, age, funny, old, retirement,
Form:
Alliteration
Packed Up PachydermYou know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of...
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Categories:
receipts, humorous,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
receipts, funny, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
Daddy's Little GirlShe was eighteen
Graduation Day
Valedictorian
The Girl got Straight A’s
Mother says, 'I’m proud of you.
Your hard work is gonna pay.
I know it's been a long road
But you've...
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Categories:
receipts, abuse, child abuse, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Joke Was On Him
Joke was on him
A lie can perpetuate with a blinding speed
Growing on the heels of shameful greed
If enough people believe a con-man's spiel
And blindly proceed...
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Categories:
receipts, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme