Best Retrieves Poems
Below are the all-time best Retrieves poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of retrieves poems written by PoetrySoup members
Shadow PlayShadow Play
While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical...
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Categories:
retrieves, courage,
Form:
Free verse
End of the RoadLOST SOUVENIRS
Your distant gaze flits, nearly bare
Like a mist that smothers the road
Windblown by chill; here, everywhere
A promise ending as breaths explode
My heart...
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Categories:
retrieves, lost, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Steps For Random Acts of KindnessNoticing his neighbor’s young child
has laid a ladder against a tree,
determined to rescue a pet kitty stuck up there,
a middle-aged man crosses the street
and offers...
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Categories:
retrieves, life,
Form:
Free verse
Hummingbird WalkA trackless wind scatters his mind
leaves fly away where no leaves are.
A hummingbird inside his chest drums,
the evening is escaping down roads
long plowed over with...
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Categories:
retrieves, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Jeepney RidePacked like sardines
inside a jeepney*—
Too full,
with a jeepney strike going on.
Rushing,
mother and child ride along.
Greasy, dirty, malnourished…
The woman holds a can—
a makeshift drum.
Little boy...
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Categories:
retrieves, life, people, social, me,
Form:
Narrative
My DogMy dog is not a manly dog,
she’s my dog just the same
A manly dog rides in a truck
and retrieves the hunted game
My dog, she is...
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Categories:
retrieves, animal, dog, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwes Forgotten ChildrenNew draft Zimbabwe’s
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Mama will be left behind when I die
I’m too sick to survive
My education was put to an end
When...
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Categories:
retrieves, death, education, health, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Flight of FallAs I lay one sullen autumn morn
on pearl dew turf with the day unborn
staring at the grey grimacing sky
with the mood and moment not quite...
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Categories:
retrieves, allegory, death, introspection, life,
Form:
Classicism
90 Years YoungerAs my old eyes search for the setting sun,
My mind is at work,
Mending the million fragmented memories.
The long arm of my mind,
Retrieves the first dusty...
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Categories:
retrieves, lost love, heart, night,
Form:
I do not know?
Memory LaneLonely hearts roam in memory lane
Events that are dear to heart pass like links of a chain
A window in the past opens for breeze cool
A...
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Categories:
retrieves, imagination, loneliness, missing you,
Form:
Rhyme
HoarfrostAgain, the snail of time seems frozen:
White grass surrounded my cauliflower;
Now, naïvely visited by mice, -a dozen,
Come from the huge hoarfrost`s tower.
Furs with the...
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Categories:
retrieves, allegory, education, memory, world,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Moonlight BellDum -- -- -- Dum -- -- -- Dum -- -- --, the moonlight bell,
Beyond the city noise of cars I overhear the moonlight bell....
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Categories:
retrieves, nostalgia,
Form:
Ghazal
The Chain Letters Road Trip
"The Chain Letters Road Trip"
Freedom Fall 8
removed
her Ray Bans
The Light
was blinding
on the other side
dark tunnels
lead to highways
unrealised
goin’...
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Categories:
retrieves, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Hope - Part Onefor you, m
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pale horse led by shrouded spectre through foggy thicket
dark days behind them illuminated by soaring ember skies
saturated soil slick under their feet impeding...
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Categories:
retrieves, anger, devotion, hope, lonely,
Form:
Narrative
Misty BlueMISTY BLUE
Uncle Eddie retrieves his groceries.
He is tall and abreast to his lineage.
He honors family and all his people through his insight
...
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Categories:
retrieves, dad, family, tribute, vanity,
Form:
Free verse