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Best Routine Poems

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


Premium Member Boy Oh Boy and a Girl
I wish to claim
My boyness
My yesterday sillyness
Innocent shyness
My crinkled nose grininess
That hide and seekiness
Spin the bottle 
kind of geekiness 

Getting caught 
My hand in the...

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Categories: routine, adventure, boy, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: routine, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: routine, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: routine, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member About Me
My life is like that of a commonplace horse
that stays where they’ve put her all day;
she lives very much like the others, of course,
accepting her...

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Categories: routine, imagination,
Form: Bio



You Are, I Am
open your doors
close all the windows
sleeping's such a bore
suffocate it with pillows

psh, i'm not hellbent
shut your mouth
it's called character development
WOOPS. broke routine again
and the poem's...

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Categories: routine, absence, beautiful, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: routine, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Today's Dreams - Tomorrow's Find
If life were but a simple chart
laid out for us to follow,
the lovely dreams that fill each heart,
would never see tomorrow.

Oh, hidden dreams so tucked...

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Categories: routine, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: routine, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Hard Work
I let up the shade
to watch the evening come in,  bringing bringing colors of umber and rust
The earth swallows dusk, which is fading to...

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Categories: routine, family, grief, life,
Form: Free verse
Another Book of Genesis
Sighed Adam to Eve:
“Because you were deceived,
Like a fool, I believed.
Sadly, all our conceived
Will be sorely bereaved.”

Well, that should be it, right?
No, boys and girls,...

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Categories: routine, funny
Form: McWhirtle
Premium Member When a Child Is Born
No words can express my elation at becoming a mother
Show my tears of joy on that perfect wintery morn
Go and show my parents our tiny...

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Categories: routine, birth, growing up, moving
Form: Lento
Premium Member Existence
Life is music that drifts in open spaces
        sometimes a brash crescendo 
     ...

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Categories: routine, appreciation, encouraging, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waking Up With Ilene
Every morning, before my caffeine 
I enjoy waking up with Ilene.
No, it's not what you think -
I wake up with her INK;
The fun thoughts of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: routine, morning, poetess,
Form: Limerick
The Wonderful Journey of the Butterfly
This beautiful journey begins
From a courtship routine
The male perch themselves on leaves
And create a glorious scene
Waiting for a female 
Just to fly on by
Now he...

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Categories: routine, adventure, beautiful, education, nature,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs