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


Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: shaped, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: shaped, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: shaped, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: shaped, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Weeping Willow
                Oh, weeping willow - friend to me
  ...

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Categories: shaped, friendship, tree,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Kaleidoscope Eyes
Round and round I go 
Unfolding my spirit of envy and gold
The nascence of a new stone
Hazel room, vibrant lilac sky, 
Deep orange haze in...

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Categories: shaped, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fifty-Three Shades of Grey
in the uncoloured tint of another everyday
amongst the spit polished waxed apples
tightly packed in burlap bags
they walked like minded
in their own burly wrap
oblivious to the...

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Categories: shaped, child, community, conflict, dad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were a Flower
A blossom I’ll be on the wreaths for peace
An offering to deity to feed world’s hungry
I’ll be the garden on every troubled street
Preening as gleefully...

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Categories: shaped, flower, friendship, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member O April
O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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Categories: shaped, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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Categories: shaped, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: shaped, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Concrete Snowman
THE BLACK
                       ...

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Categories: shaped, children, fun, snow, winter,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: shaped, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: shaped, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”
Sara Evans

My heart no longer
beats the same,
as I’ve wiped away 
tainted...

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Categories: shaped, angst, break up, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs