Best Recycled Poems
Below are the all-time best Recycled poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of recycled poems written by PoetrySoup members
Silent GoodbyeI forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.
The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.
Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...
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Categories:
recycled, absence, i miss you,
Form:
Prose
The ReturnA charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His...
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Categories:
recycled, anti bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
You Kissed Him In Front of MeYou didn’t notice my tears.
As you both kissed each other
like two lonely plungers
who just escaped from plumber’s solitary confinement,
your eyes open and wander up.
You didn’t...
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Categories:
recycled, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
StargazerUnder 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity
A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric
In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...
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Categories:
recycled, confusion, feelings, life, night,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Through the 80sA time for many a part-time passion, like
the discarded skin of Esprit jeans and low-hip waistline
baring pierced navel with flavor of...
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Categories:
recycled, culture, time,
Form:
Free verse
RecycleThe grasshopper left the corn
For the dawn of the baobab tree
The elders brought flowers
For the floor of the ages past
And the door of ages to...
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Categories:
recycled, parody, philosophy
Form:
Free verse
Spring ContrastsThe Gorse and Broom now spread a cloth of gold
Robe hillside thus in pristine Spring apparel
With garlands: snowy white, hedgerows enfold
Paired birds that now reprise...
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Categories:
recycled, peace, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
Betting On NothingBy committing to nothing, one retains infinite options.
I have hid inside these words for moons and seasons and New Year’s toasts.
The lone wolf roams fertile...
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Categories:
recycled, angst, confusion, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Wabi-Sabi"Dead leaves lay still, even the last flower is withered: yet there is a beauty in decayed imperfection." Taken from a quote by _Constance La...
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Categories:
recycled, beauty,
Form:
Narrative
Don'T Tell My Heart How To WriteIn a world where we are constantly told how we should do this and that,
we must learn to thank them for their opinions…but, to...
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Categories:
recycled, how i feel, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Elephant In the Room3 polished oak fans,
Swirling in robotic unison
High maintenance socialites,
Sipping on Merlot fallacies
Lemon yellow coated walls,
Flat,
Like their smiles
Comparisons of dangling Porsche & Bentley keys
A glorified day...
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Categories:
recycled, funny, humorous, life, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Trophy WifeI watch your riveting sonatas
Layer decadent truffles
Upon his pupils
Leaking wanton tears
Grasping for serenity
To have epilogue’s slow dance
You latch onto love’s empty façade.
No return flights to...
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Categories:
recycled, life, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Love Waits PatientlyOh my beloved,
this life can be confusing.
A plethora of recycled emotions,
sometimes result in false devotions.
Absence wounds with nostalgic reflections.
Secluded souls yearning for old satisfactions.
Oh my...
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Categories:
recycled, love,
Form:
Narrative
SentencedThey place my vowel
Under barren landscape
Sipping from cracked porcelain cup
Of an alienated heartbeat
Devilish grins
Slapping Karma’s bottom,
A quarterback’s misguided win
Liar’s prophetic retinas glaze
With metric, disciplinary ruler
They...
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Categories:
recycled, judgement, life, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
ValidationIn their dreams…
Yes, please
Whisper indoctrinated dialect
Upon my harrowing song
Yes, please
Remove that scented, plastic tulip
Place it upon my oblivious palm
As if we’re in a Sadie Hawkins...
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Categories:
recycled, emotions, introspection, life, lonely,
Form:
Free verse