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Best Recoil Poems

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


So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: recoil, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member White Picket Fence
Featuring: Keith :)
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Fresh sand garments 
The Mental Colosseum floor
Self-infliction's--waging wars 
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~ AND THE POEM BEGINS ~

A mask, tiny holes
Breathing heavily
Dancing around my toes
Broad carbon steel
Safe...

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Categories: recoil, adventure, art, beauty, body,
Form: Free verse
A Chicago Pearl
A Chicago Pearl

She put her dreams on hold but carries them up proudly
as she serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, six days a week
to make ends...

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Categories: recoil, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring
SPRING


Testing the water with bare toes
I will recoil
to the misted edge of hoarfrost
softened soil
peek through eyes of Crocus
and Jonquil
at the emptiness my promise
must fullfil.

I’ll whisper...

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Categories: recoil, seasons, spring,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Zolar the Inet God
(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the...

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Categories: recoil, abuse, addiction, anti bullying,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member True Grit
My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of...

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Categories: recoil, america, death, loss, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Your Crotch and You
As crotches go, mine is up there with the best

I would even classify it as exceptional

One would think it all comes down to size

But size...

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Categories: recoil, humor,
Form: Narrative
Woodland Dusk
At the fold of day
a veil shrouds the hills
as rising fog drifts
over tapering fields.

Rain falls softly,
dimpling the river.
It’s sombre waters swaggering
beneath a narrow bridge.

Rambling oak...

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© Eiken Laan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recoil, inspirational, life, nature
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Duckling
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
~by William Wordsworth~

I wandered lonely as a Duckling
Swimming in a big and lovely pond,
Trying to fit in and make a...

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Categories: recoil, hurt, judgement, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Magic Beans
Magic Beans Magic Beans
Sure Jack was swacked
On the tip of beanstalk
He was bivouacked

He met a giant's wife
Who gave him food and drink
When the giant came...

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Categories: recoil, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting...

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Categories: recoil, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Just Visits
Just Visiting

While my visiting days are over,
I am left with another gift,
Fantasizing as a butterfly
Landing softly on a cruise ship.

I don’t drive down the Texas...

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Categories: recoil, age, fantasy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Miss So and So

She’s so neg neurodegenerative,
so womb retro Neanderthal

Her backward moving bellow decisions
aren’t thoroughly modern mellow

Got lip kicker high heels
that testosterone neuter kills

Miss So and So
loves to...

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Categories: recoil, dark, image, slam, word
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Sniper Dreams Ii
I see their ghosts ...
dancing before me like madmen
moon-daubed scarecrows of the corn
hurling curses like daggers

I see their eyes ...
the gleams change to glaze
with every...

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Categories: recoil, psychological, war,
Form: Free verse
Speak
A smile crawls onto my face.
What a strange feeling to be happy. 
I spot him within the crowded mass of zombies.
He flashes a smirk my...

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Categories: recoil, abuse, anxiety, change, for
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things