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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


Premium Member Shadow Play
Shadow 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



Premium Member End of the Road
LOST 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
Premium Member Steps For Random Acts of Kindness
Noticing 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 Walk
A 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 Ride
Packed 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 Dog
My 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 Children
New 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 Fall
As 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 Younger
As 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 Lane
Lonely 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
Hoarfrost
Again, 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 Bell
Dum -- -- -- 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
Premium Member 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 One
for 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 Blue
MISTY 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

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