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


Premium Member Shadows In the Park
Innocent days spent on the paths of Audubon Park.
A dark silhouette trailing my steps;  a body guard
until a stick was thrown.  Black tail...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieval, dog, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Wisdom Download
If no signal fires a mental wasteland blazing passion,
Angelic vibes are only found through third-eye action

You'll feel less discomfort if you're into the ideal aura...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieval, analogy, cheer up, education,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Follow Me
A cumulonimbus cloud enveloped my sky,
Threatening to rain down a torrent of pain.
An ocean of commotion swirled in my brain.
My attempts to bandage the wounds...

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Categories: retrieval, angst, encouraging, friend, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drag Race
The day has come, weeks and countless dollars invested in this moment.
All preparations have been made.
A myriad of nuts and bolts, inspected, tightened to torque.
Fluids...

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Categories: retrieval, car, poetry, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Days of Remembrance
Funny how certain days spark our remembrance.
We talk of things with similar resemblance.

How about the runners in the Boston bombing:
The screaming children in Oklahoma sobbing!

That...

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Categories: retrieval, remember,
Form: Rhyme



Transformers
In a world, not that off our own
The Autobots and Decepticons roam

Advanced engineering and developed mechanics
Soon to appear on our Planet

Unexpected events, an explorers Surprise
To...

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Categories: retrieval, writing,
Form: Rhyme
An Ode To Loss
In knowing how my heart aches, I know not
Where to hide my sorrow. Etched, onto flesh
So numbed, by the cold break of tomorrow. 
My thoughts...

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Categories: retrieval, bereavement, depression, relationship,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Polyculturing Education
Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a...

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Categories: retrieval, culture, deep, destiny, earth
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Revolution In Hand
Worth Two in a Buddha Universal Bush

Our permaculturist agenda,
primal principle of economic/ecological design,
is developing,
spreading,
hunting and stealing into fissures
fractally fracturing Business As Usual,
competitive monomials unveil Transitional...

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Categories: retrieval, culture, faith, math, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembering Radical Relatives
Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly; 
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that...

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Categories: retrieval, beauty, culture, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Titan and the Night Tears of Eos
"Titan and the Night Tears of Eos" 

Another world calls
dreams in 
the in-between 

place before all

where the night tears 
of Eos never fall
unified consort

Astraeus caresses
dawn...

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Categories: retrieval, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angel On My Shoulder
Angels on my right shoulder
Battling devils on the left
Ever guiding my actions
Saving my soul from bereft

Angels e'er amongst us
Like Clarence on Stewart's bridge
Softly urge us...

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Categories: retrieval, faith, inspirationalangel, angel,
Form: Quatrain
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Categories: retrieval, allegory, analogy, animal, cat,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member One Small Angel
Mother has passed, ninety years of life to end.
Memories will live on, as memories do.
Times past, good and bad, now in equal balance.
A quiet time...

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Categories: retrieval, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Archaeological Expeditions To the Moon
Archaeological Expeditions To the Moon

By Sugob Elcitra

[Dr. Sugob Elcitra is the founding president of  Lunar Research, Inc.  His company plans to offer private...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieval, satire,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs