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Best Sentenced Poems

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


Premium Member Sentenced
They place my vowel
Under barren landscape

Sipping from cracked porcelain cup
Of an alienated heartbeat

Devilish grins
Slapping Karma’s bottom,
A quarterback’s misguided win

Liar’s prophetic retinas glaze
With metric, disciplinary ruler

They...

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Categories: sentenced, judgement, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: sentenced, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: sentenced, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: sentenced, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Inside This Little Room
It's to the corner kids must sometimes go,
or to their room they're sent and kept alone.
Their freedom gone, they stare at walls and groan.
When time...

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Categories: sentenced, on writing and words
Form: Italian Sonnet



One In Four Women
Terror seizes you, and it isn't kind. 
 You try to go somewhere peaceful in your mind.
But the pain rips you right back to here...

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Categories: sentenced, angst, life, peace, sadme,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: sentenced, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Child's Only Christmas
On Christmas Eve an Angel
    felt the sorrow of the Lord.
Who wept for the many Children
   sentenced to perish by...

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Categories: sentenced, angel, christmas, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member REVENGE
          REVENGE

          Avenge !
   ...

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Categories: sentenced, murder,
Form: Footle
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: sentenced, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
CRY NO MORE
I was lost, I was found, I was hunted, I was downed , 
Heard the screams of the whale when the harpoon has hit 
Seen...

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Categories: sentenced, how i feel,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member How Much Longer Will It Go On
He was the child that did not smile, or live
or breath, towards his death he did not look
as though he had the time to duck...

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Categories: sentenced, anti bullying,
Form: Sonnet
Angels of Destiny
Angels of destiny, sunk in empty eyes so clear,
Angels of destiny, every day your fate so near.
Seldom has your little face been graced with a...

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Categories: sentenced, africa, angel, feelings, food,
Form: Sonnet
The Final Harvest
One day there will be a harvest like no other we’ve ever seen,
The day God harvests His people and casts out those that are unclean.
Only...

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Categories: sentenced, devotion, faithday, god, day,
Form: Verse
She
She wailed her way into the world...
An avatar they said, Goddess Lakshmi had taken birth...

Her parents' pride, her brother's delight...
She loved and shone her brightest...

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Categories: sentenced, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs