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Best Sheathed Poems

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


Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: sheathed, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: sheathed, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Enlightening
The graveyard, shrouded in pale mist, so hauntingly eerie,
dampen spirits as the full moon loses her glow - dreary!
I float, like a vapour, amongst lifeless,...

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Categories: sheathed, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Promise I'Ll Try Not To Cry
Please sing me a song of love gone wrong
And I will weep in dreams while I sleep
For that's when I fear the cascade of tears
And...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sheathed, cry, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sheathed, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Who Is the Giant of Them All
WHO IS THE GIANT OF THEM ALL

Animals or humans, who is the giant of them all?
Bearing a two sheathed wings, the Hercules Beetles
crash the Titans...

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Categories: sheathed, animal, character, imagery, nature,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Stone In the Cold-3
I face the final test of nature's truth.
The nights coming fast, I travel unheard.
The reverence I feel, was born in my youth,
tempered by sage, burnt...

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Categories: sheathed, courage,
Form: Sonnet
Retort To the Devil...
They call you the fallen one,with short tuffted curls
the one responsible for the chaos in the world
you may be the cause,as we live the effect
but...

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Categories: sheathed, satirepride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lighthearted Dragon
If I were a dragon, burning old bridges
with the fire that I breathe,
I would perform tricks, from way up high,
and eternally seethe,
lend a daring claw...

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Categories: sheathed, fantasy, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
The Aberdare Ranges Kenya
Dawn, when silence falters
And the trees of the range- 
Are tucked in a bucket of fog
Marching dawn, whose beauty never alters,
I tuck myself in blankets...

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© Marugu Mo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sheathed, africa, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cholla's Legacy
A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic 
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes 
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays...

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Categories: sheathed, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Top of a Wall
Would you confine me to a granite wall,
Where skies are arid dry and desolate?
Would tones of warmth be frozen when I call,
While desert seas insist...

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Categories: sheathed, identity,
Form: Sonnet
A Sempiternal Legacy
~they embraced in their dalliance~
her appetency held a depth so deep he just couldn’t 
resist placing his hands around her barren waste
(she reaches for him...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sheathed, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Black Widow
Moving in silence, tethered to a thread
of silk, she is both beautiful and dark.
One bite and her prey can't move, though not dead,
for slurping her...

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Categories: sheathed, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Sonnet
The Long Battle
I was born to war with myself.
Both sides of my brain
were weaponized,
armored and fully loaded.

There were many killing fields.
I shed more of my blood
then I...

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Categories: sheathed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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