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Best Sideways Poems

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


This Scar of Mine
There is a scar
                     ...

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Categories: sideways, nostalgia,
Form: Concrete



Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-Playing
The farm
     and the porch light hums 
the sound of another 
orange dawn.

Burnt up – crisp
     ...

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Categories: sideways, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse
This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: sideways, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: sideways, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: sideways, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: sideways, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Paintings Call My Name
My art delights me, covers my walls.
Smiling, dancing, laughing magical beings.
Reminding me how much I love to choose colors.
Appreciated by no one as much as...

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Categories: sideways, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: sideways, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Unsupervised Stop Sign
There was a time, when the sun was our guiding light,
amidst clouds of twilight that paint our skylines bright. 
There were no misleading traffic signals,
halting...

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Categories: sideways, angst, deep, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
The Narcissistic Neanderthal
Like an archaic humanoid dinosaur
     you  plunder through life taking no prisoners,
        ...

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Categories: sideways, loss, passion, political, romance,
Form: Blank verse
A Sense of Diamonds
To hear me would sound like a symphony of octaves –
played all at once with concrete fingers
on diamond in the rough strings.

To see me…O’, to...

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Categories: sideways, natureme, me,
Form: Personification
Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sideways, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Land of Lost Shadows: A Tribute To L S Lowry
land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies.

five urban colours
through unflinching eyes.

tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play.

smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day.

sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes.

strange brooding...

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Categories: sideways, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Sardines
Through the water they glide, 
an immense mosaic of millions of silvery fish 
on their migratory run, 
obeying a call immemorial, 
a mystery of aquatic...

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Categories: sideways, fish, imagery, journey, life,
Form: Imagism
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: sideways, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things