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Best Receptacle Poems

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


Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: receptacle, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...

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Categories: receptacle, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
What's In the Urn
What’s In The Urn

Strangers offered me to join them in a drink
I met them on a mountain edge while skiing
They seemed like friendly normal people...

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Categories: receptacle, adventure, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Promise To God (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)
Come December 21, two thousand and twelve
On the winter solstice, mankind may burn in hell
As man's Creator, I've sent multiple warnings
Nostradamus, the Mayans, Hopi Indians
All...

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Categories: receptacle, devotion, faith, forgiveness, upliftingworld,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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Categories: receptacle, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Smart and Final Prose
Daylight fades, a city pulsates, and traffic is reflected in store windows.  
Hurrying headlights come out of the darkness. 
They crisscross like dueling knights....

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Categories: receptacle, peoplepeople, red, city, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Kick the Can
Please,
  Feel free ...
    Kick me down the street
      Like a dented can - label ripped,...

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Categories: receptacle, abuse, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Sing Today - O Sing This Day
O thousand Tongues sing, sing of Christ
Jesus, Chosen vehicle, human receptacle
Of fatherly fondness, for who would be wise
Admitting we do what we ought not, not...

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Categories: receptacle, bible, christian,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Prophet
Prophesies by seers may be derided and prophets may be lampooned. But time may prove them right"   By Poet.

There was none to listen...

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Categories: receptacle, judgement, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother's Aprons
I remember so well the calico aprons that my Mother wore.
She made them from feed sacks that Father needed no more.
She wore them mainly to...

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Categories: receptacle, nostalgiaclothes,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...

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Categories: receptacle, marriage,
Form: Free verse
One Body In Christ
thank God for all He has done and let there be no division to find
we are all part of one body and as Christians of...

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Categories: receptacle, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Be Merciful-.Be
From the beginning to the end tithe.
Round the circle of eternity, she writhes.
Fresh, full, ripe, and undeniably free.
O God, be merciful to she.

Fill the receptacle...

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Categories: receptacle, life, love
Form: Kyrielle
Overcoming the Temptation To Commit Sin
be not a receptacle to that spirit of sin
live by the word of God and be open to Him

in this day where the lines of...

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Categories: receptacle, devotion, faith, happiness, hope,
Form: Didactic
Keats Nightingale
Keats’ Nightingale

The romantic poets were too early to postulate total atheism,
And so freshened up the church by aligning god with nature,
And I believe they had...

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Categories: receptacle, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, bird,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs