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Best Retention Poems

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


Premium Member Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join In
I’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!

I...

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Categories: retention, body, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Flight of Dreams
A prelude to darkness will glide on wings of twilight,
 Night will slip its ebon shawl upon the sky
 and twinkling stars will loosen dreams
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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retention, dream, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's Time To Rumble
Be brave my lads. It's time to rumble
Jump into battle but beware the tumble.
Stay on your toes or you might stumble.
Getting lost will make your...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retention, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member To Albert Bandura: I Wish You Knew
I wish you knew the depth of knowledge gained
How instrumental are your thoughts to me
Through teaching what I’ve learned, I have been trained
To revel in...

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Categories: retention, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Poet - Stand - Your Name Is Your Seal
Poet, stand up! 
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Categories: retention, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Electric Shock Treatment
I'm sure this has happened to most of you
You come up with this brilliant thought
Before you have a chance to write it down
It vanishes like...

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Categories: retention, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Weather Report
I forecast: anticyclone set, unmoving
The descending air evaporates and dries
Over Wales and England weather is improving
We predict a full eight eighths of cloudless skies

Or in...

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Categories: retention, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Spring
Ode to Spring

Lovely lady kisses winter good-bye
Then writes her name upon receding snows
Her signature flames in rose twilight skies
Lingering, she begs daylight not to go
Dropping...

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Categories: retention, joy, life, song, spring,
Form: Ode
When a Flower Waits
They sit with a purpose in sight
inviting me sweetly with bright 
yes they bloom at will
cuz they know the drill
those flowers of sentinel light 

Competing...

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Categories: retention, appreciation, nature,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Walking With Faith
For yesterday is but retention and tomorrow is only a vision
Encouragement is filled with strength and vigor 
Love is not easy to anger
Life is not...

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Categories: retention, faith, inspirational, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Didn'T Mean To
It was a heartfelt indulge of an act
The night like knights we lighted
Like a king yah served my want
Like a deal we moved on and...

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Categories: retention, art, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Age of Forgetfulness
from "Awaking", by Stephen Spender:
"After night the waking knowledge --
The gravel path searching the Way;
The cobweb crystal on the hedge,
The empty station of the day."

I...

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Categories: retention, age, change, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Skill and Talent
Is skill and talent that sacred
As to earn me daily bread
Pleasurable and luxurious things
As a place before kings
And unending sentiment
Of transcending compliment

Is skill and talent...

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Categories: retention, christian, senses,
Form: Couplet
Motherland
With each morning comes a new genesis 
That today would craft a dissimilar, Then 
The echo of my voice to be perceived too
As it outs...

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Categories: retention, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Elastic---Acrostic
Elastic stretches bit by bit, around your thick dimension

Lets  you wiggle,  if you're pudgy, from too much fudge retention

A second portion...now, you're ecstatic....Alas,...

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Categories: retention, funny,
Form: Acrostic

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