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Best Rumoured Poems

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


Paradise Mislaid
We decided to turn Paradise into real estate.
Trouble was, we weren’t too sure where to find it,
Though experts had located it somewhere
Slightly west or east...

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Categories: rumoured, paradise, satire, tree,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member School Dinners
The prime objective of school dinners
Must have been to make them taste as awful as possible
Too runny or to thick
Aesthetically disgusting 
And the result was...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rumoured, childhood, food, funny, giggle,
Form: Free verse
The Legend of Smelly Nelly
Smelly Nelly was quite a charming girl,
She wore her hair in braids instead of curls,
Bathing several times per day in the Jewish way,
Yet many scoffed...

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Categories: rumoured, childhood, food, friendship, funny,
Form: Limerick
The Reign of Poseidon
His beginning was his end, being swallowed by Cronus 
Fortuitously his fortune averted when through Zeus he was saved

With his trusted trident his magnificence reigned...

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Categories: rumoured, dedication
Form: Free verse
Centipede Scare
A centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end! 

And while we tried learning about it on Google...

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Categories: rumoured, fear, giggle, insect,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the...

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Categories: rumoured, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Girl In the Red Dress
The full moon lit up the night sky
A wisp of cloud passed it by
To add to an eerie atmosphere
As if something gruesome might appear.

The gates...

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Categories: rumoured, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of 'Long Ben'
His gold teeth glistened in the sun
As ‘Long Ben Avery’ turned
To face his captives, head lowered,
Their providence to learn

For Avery was a pirate bold
Trained in...

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Categories: rumoured, adventure, history, people,
Form: Rhyme
Mary Fields
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Stagecoach Mary
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: January/2014


 Mary Fields,
(1832-1914).

born a slave,
somewhere in
Tennessee,

on the 
Dunnes
Plantation -

She  became 
the first
African American
(male or female)
to deliver 
the U. S. mail
in 
America -

She...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rumoured, history
Form: Prose Poetry
The Eye of the Sea - Part 2
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 1


The first mate, dour and sparse of words
Claimed few things were his pleasure
And too much beer had...

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Categories: rumoured, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
Alfred the Great- a Maverick
A West Saxon King of Wessex and grace
He dealt with the Danes a convincing deface
Father of Navy and military blow
A legalised system the people should...

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© Ian Foley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rumoured, history
Form: Rhyme
A Brief Histiry With Plato
A BRIEF HISTORY WITH PLATO

At the beginning Plato reigned
in a way they never quite explained
or understood; the mutual attraction
obviated thoughts of sexual satisfaction.

For so long...

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Categories: rumoured, moving on, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Secret of the Forest
THE SECRET OF THE FOREST
The truth was concealed with many branches
Well cushioned with intertwining vines
In the dark forest  at the foothills
It lay hidden since...

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Categories: rumoured, age, crush, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy Land
On the dark side of town the Ogre lives
His only friend is the refection he sees
On pondering on his shade of green
He boomed out a...

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Categories: rumoured, fantasyme,
Form: Rhyme
Pisces
by nature i'm a dreamer,
the stars have deemed it so.
the mysterious fish of the zodiac,
content to go with the flow.
ruled by the shadows of neptune
and...

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Categories: rumoured, introspection, drug,
Form: Rhyme

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