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Best Sanctioned Poems

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


Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: sanctioned, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Ukraines Defiance
Ukraine is putting up a brave fight and is not giving in
A two finger salute to that murderer, Vladimar Putin
For eight months now they've held...

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Categories: sanctioned, death, evil, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soft
“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.” ~Victoria Erickson

Tonight the moon sanctioned...

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Categories: sanctioned, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

HE speaks, and messengers appear
To innocence of one so young in year
The calling understood, she will not flee
Till France is free of English...

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Categories: sanctioned, faith, history,
Form: Couplet
Why People Why
Why people why




About so many things I want to let fly,

Political correctness is like a stick in my eye.

Capitalism and greed over helping others, WHY...

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Categories: sanctioned, anger, society,
Form: Rhyme



Crushed
In their eyes a disingenuous dream, pertinacious pestilence in their stream,
Solitudes sanctioned in their scheme, sacrificial surrenders in their scream…
Hearts contused crippled and crushed, of...

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Categories: sanctioned, abuse, child abuse, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Honest Poem About My Life
I was asked to write an honest portrayal of my life-
I could say I am a daughter, mother and wife.
My days are full of so...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sanctioned, addiction, blessing, conflict, life,
Form: Couplet
True Love Waits
Vows sworn for a sacred true commitment,
lust has become trust lost in just two weeks-
I’m living my days in pure resentment,
I'm no longer able to...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sanctioned, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mourning In My Arms
Really, only five years have past
Since your son’s abandoned car was found,
	No note,
		Along side sea cliffs
		North of Santa Cruz,
		After failing with pills,
			Too many times.
	No body...

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Categories: sanctioned, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Blight Before Christmas
The UK just sanctioned a jab
That scientists made in a lab
My best friend, Maxine
Just had the vaccine 
Which left just a tiny green scab

Her husband...

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Categories: sanctioned, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Sustaining Secretive Solitudes
I put aside my heart where love betrays the nestled night,
And egotistical echoes fall short in their submissive stagger…
Sanctioned solitudes fill the antagonizing abrasive air,
As...

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Categories: sanctioned, sad love, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Faith In the Unseen.
Illusion, vibration, humility, wisdom, sensation,
Are the very designs for contemplation.

My faith lies not in a sanctioned being,
But through infinite energies' unified singing.

A. Green...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sanctioned, faith
Form: Couplet
Ill Repute
ILL REPUTE

It was a house of ill repute 
And though the occupants were cute
(Or so I gather second-hand,
I haven’t visited, you understand)
The local residents agreed
That,...

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Categories: sanctioned, humorous, lust, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Graduation
The day’s hot-the wind like a convection oven
Blows hot air in our faces.
My cap and gown insulates me
Baking me like a potato wrapped in aluminum...

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Categories: sanctioned, childhood, education, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Narrative
Walk With Me
We follow the river
Along  the Taff Trail ****
Where will it lead me 
Somewhere beautiful without fail

We pass Llandaff  Cathedral
With Epstein,s statue's within
Cant say that I like...

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Categories: sanctioned, dog, journey, nature, slam,
Form: Free verse

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