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Best Recreational Poems

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


Premium Member Recreational Retreat
When troubles and turmoil lay their grip on me,
Solace is found in a simpler time and place.  
In my mind or person, it is...

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Categories: recreational, encouraging, family, friendship, grandparents,
Form: Rispetto



Premium Member As Santa Leaves Slab City
Santa hasn’t drunk cocoa tonight,
and he’s not dressed in red trimmed with white.
In blue denim so cool,
he is toasting the Yule
with a drink surely not...

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Categories: recreational, character,
Form: Limerick
The Seasons That Rhyme
I have walked  through the seasons of the year,
Summer brings us the warm sunlight,

The beautiful nature portrayed by the calm lake and tall trees,
A...

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Categories: recreational, natureautumn, snow, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What It Really Means
A day when everything goes your way 
   I must be doing something wrong

when you do everything on your checklist
   Haven't...

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Categories: recreational, day, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Art of the Airbrush
Angel Deaths
A dark dawn
Still more illegals cross the border
  ~ They've 'done nothing wrong'

Peace and Love
Olive Branch, in mouth of Dove
In corpore sano, mens...

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Categories: recreational, irony, language, leadership, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Resting In These Tennessee Hills
Resting In These Tennessee Hills

Lazy mornings in these Tennessee hills
Horned owl in tree behind house hoots all night
Sometimes annoys but often gifts a thrill
As country-fired...

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Categories: recreational, appreciation, beauty, feelings, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Human Body
" Human Body "

There seems to be a heated debate
amongst a meeting of the minds
about the uniquely crafted body
of our own human kind.
 
Our amazing...

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Categories: recreational, imaginationbody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still a Brave New World Ahead - Cloning, Eugenics Not Dead
Is government control of humans’ birth, aging, and dying
In century 26, as practiced by a new World State;
Different from 20th century’s use of eugenics,
Which used...

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Categories: recreational, baby, birth, body, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
evolves from enthymematic roots
toward mutually empathic,
darkly transparent
nondual dark energy

Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
pregnant...

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Categories: recreational, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightening Systems
"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of] 
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
     ...

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Categories: recreational, blessing, humor, math, mentor,
Form: Political Verse
Curries and Spices
still stuck at the introductory,
I have been a silent observer. 
well that is what I do mostly in my laboratory.
To begin,
My name is a tongue...

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© Ravi Kiran  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recreational, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a Small Wacked World After All
Watch me creep upon your virgin abode
without a husbandry humping request
to take what is mine from no/mo/mojoe months of 
exsocietal solutiservititude of sexlessages unimpressed. 
Finally,...

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Categories: recreational, education, freedom, love, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Beloving Dualdark Night

Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
and posthumous demise,
probably post-humorous as well,
should...

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Categories: recreational, death, depression, humor, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Drugs
DRUGS

Duping myself with that false belief for the
Recreational using of these mind altering
Until I find myself slipping from my sanity
Gripped by the uncontrolled insanity they
Say...

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Categories: recreational, abuse, addiction, drug,
Form: Acrostic
Winter Sports
Winter weather and fresh pure white snow

Ice to figure skate on and to play hockey

New skates to wear, skating figures on the ice

Time for a...

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Categories: recreational, sportswinter, winter,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things