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Best Respective Poems

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


Premium Member Pervasive Grandeur
In grandeur, a leaf of grass is no less high
Than all the glittering stars in the sky

There is beauty alike in weed and reed
When each...

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Categories: respective, creation, identity, inspirational,
Form: Couplet



Slamming the Super-Duper-Soupers
you want to know a secret
when I write a poem and it's perfect
i dont share it
i bury it 
deep inside of me 
where no one...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respective, humor, slam, perspective,
Form: Rubaiyat
Four Cafes
High above the quiet, darkened streets of January, the night wind begins to whisper secrets through my apartment window casements. Far below me lie four...

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Categories: respective, character, drink, eve, humanity,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Yellow Shine
What golden fevers disease drives the madman’s insanity,
A toxic yellow shines metal, that glitter beneath the polar Aurora,
Of greed’s horded treasure of the Klondike’s curse!
By...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respective, adventure, boat, death, history,
Form: Free verse
Essential Spirits
She was like Bordeaux,
a tall drink of spirit
He was more a hopped
pale lager like Pilsner, 
both gorgeous and
super gingered flavors,
although clashing mid
respective savored aplomb,
one so...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respective, allegory, analogy, drink, funny
Form: Imagism



My Monster
among you and I and among us all
remains a feeling of shallow intoxication
that seems to play on and on and on in our respective heads
as...

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Categories: respective, conflict, depression, niece, suicide,
Form: Blank verse
Let's Keep It Real
It's funny when you just feel like you in this world alone -
Know one understand's you , not even the one's who consider themselves 
to...

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Categories: respective, black african american, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Inappropriate Attire
It is the evening I have waited for, 
stiletto heels three inches high adorned my feet,
real nylons hung from garters beneath a
skin tight, leather skirt...

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Categories: respective, lust,
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories: respective, appreciation, beautiful, moon, night,
Form: Narrative
Human Figures Made of Clay
Dismal tale of men and women in the dirty rail compartment
No conception of the charm being knitted by the movement
Of the necklace of gentle light...

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Categories: respective, discrimination, loneliness, sorrow, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buzzards and Flamingos
When winter months become morose
And everything around is blue and froze
Gets disheartening even for the eskimos
Their morale starts to dwindle and decompose

They tread most lightly...

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Categories: respective, fantasy, sun, travel, uplifting,
Form: Monorhyme
Dawn's Answer
Over the city 
the sun begins its 
 trip 
Dawn's answer is 
    that 
life must begin anew
    The...

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Categories: respective, fantasy, moon,
Form: Blank verse
Poetic Therapy
As we are all part of the same verse,
languages to belong by diverse.
When the pen is mightier then the sword,
rhymed words are the crown of...

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Categories: respective, 10th grade, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Charlie Tuna
A few big Baracudas one day
had assaulted some fish “schools” at play.
Many fish bravely fought.
The most famous did not.
Charlie Tuna sped quickly away.

Charlie Tuna had...

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Categories: respective, sea,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sensationalism

A little voice inside keeps saying, “write something different”
Different to what may I ask?
I have surely written about every subject there is to write about
No...

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Categories: respective, proposal,
Form: Free verse

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