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

A Visitor at the Wake

ceased, but lingering
unsettled energy circling
still pondering my desire to be loved
hearts in pews calling in my direction
though I don't open my eyes to see

I felt...

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Categories: scrutinised, funeral,
Form: Free verse

If I Ruled the Red Cross

IF I RULED THE RED CROSS 

If I Ruled the Red Cross, 
many changes I would make
It would be required 
that our Movement is understood 
By everyone...

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Categories: scrutinised, adventure, confidence, courage, destiny,
Form: Couplet

The Waiting

“The Waiting” 

eyes close
the new chapter
picks us up 

we find ourselves
lost in the poetic dream
stranded in a desert 

a lifetime away from home
we are in...

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Categories: scrutinised, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Corpus

          Corpus

              ...

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Categories: scrutinised, appreciation, career, celebrity, image,
Form: Free verse

Insanity Or Death the Mind of a Survivor

Enters Shawnteysmo
Searching for the right answers using the wrong clues
Trying to cure cancer when clutching a carpenters tools
Handed death or mental disaster the latter I...

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Categories: scrutinised, confusion, death, imagination, pain,
Form: Free verse

Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T Wignesan

The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur...

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Categories: scrutinised, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure

Continued from FREEZER MICE

The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now...

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Categories: scrutinised, adventure,
Form: Narrative

The Tannoy Operator

This free verse was written from an agnostic point of view 
so may appear biased, against organised religions
I assure you this is not my intention,...

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Categories: scrutinised, allegory, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Fabrics Finding Fabrications

A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here...

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Categories: scrutinised, animal,
Form: I do not know?

B,B

Beauty's Beast.

Well I'm looking but I don't see.
A little here a little there
I even looked under the stair.
In the wardrobes and chest of drawers.
I even...

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Categories: scrutinised, beauty, children, fun, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

The Nihilist - Eight: the Searcher

How high the moon in comparison
  To the depths in which I sink;
How black the nightfall garrison,
  How black the thoughts I think.
In...

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Categories: scrutinised, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse

Thoughts

I don't know where my absolutes lie
Where am I defined 
Has there been a point I was set in time
When I'm with friends on my...

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Categories: scrutinised, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Eye In Eye, Edvard Munch

I've since looked at Kiss IV by Munch about his relationship with Tulla Larsen and may revisit poem this as I feel differently about this...

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Categories: scrutinised, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Glamour a Freed Verse

GLAMOUR
mores
shown off
ae moral
 imperatives
symbolic
 to its core s
  emblematic
&superficial

a  potential
 put together
 the spectaculare
scrutinised
embroidered
& paraded
insights
of the
 passive
barely
 visible
idealised
 faces
 brightened
loved caressed
 to an
inner
 perfection...

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Categories: scrutinised, poetry,
Form: Free verse

When the Evidence Went Missing [cont'D]

“All their comings and their goings were so closely scrutinised 
as the prosecution’s trump card was the evidence they prized.  
Though the wily prosecutor...

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Categories: scrutinised, funny, life, old, morning,
Form: Rhyme