Best Single File Poems
Mackenzie Trail...When doves on evenings, calm and still, call out a hollow tone,
They rouse a medley, old as time, so few have ever known.
The whispered lines of its refrains resound of yesterday,
In ancie......
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Categories:
single file, adventure, cowboy-western, historyold, horse,
Form:
Quatrain
The Earth As It Is...These are the times
I sit and ponder at the beauty of it all,
amazed at the bounty of my blessings
Overburdened with foolish reminiscing
For the time has come for the present...
...life's neve......
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Categories:
single file, animal, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
The Outlander...I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, f......
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Categories:
single file, change, childhood, community, history,
Form:
Ballad
We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -...Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,
we marched on all the flesh of......
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Categories:
single file, history, march,
Form:
Imagism
Smile Smile For a While...My name is Mr. Happy.
Spelled H-A-P-P-Y.
Also known as Pappy.
Spelled P-A-P-P-Y.
I am the Mr. Happy Pappy guy.
And, I hate to see kids cry...
I hate to see kids cry.
So... Smile, Smile for a ......
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Categories:
single file, cheer up, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Leader Emerges...From sagging huts up in the hills,
We watched the tourists flash their bills.
They piled our harvest on their plates,
While soup and scraps were all we ate.
The flames lick up from garbage ......
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Categories:
single file, history, people, social, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Latin Lover...The heat of your breath hitting against me
Firing up my insides...seethingly sexy
Against my neck fascination begins
Bearing your silken Latin mocha skin
Wanton chocolate eyes melt me again
Do......
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Categories:
single file, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passion, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Blizzard...Eleven horses traipsed single file toward home
The scudding clouds threw a snowflake now and then
A Brown bear sniffed the air and looked toward his den
the mountain emptied
The......
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Categories:
single file, snow,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Time For School...It's time for school to start again.
Children must cease their summer play,
to once more pick up books, paper, pen.
It's time for school to start again.
Parents try to hide a grin.
They've been ......
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Categories:
single file, school, student, teacher,
Form:
Triolet
Xenophobia Pt 1...TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Be......
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Categories:
single file, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Humans, Ants and Shadows...HUMANS, ANTS AND SHADOWS
The smallest ants cast long shadows. . .
Little they are but see how discipline they can be
Millimeters apart, they all unify in a single file
It......
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Categories:
single file, animal, imagery, insect, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Come Sit By Me...COME, SIT BY ME ( to Emily Dickinson)
Emily--
Come,
Sit by me --
We’ll watch the singing chicks
Starlings searching --always searching on
Searching--hopping
......
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Categories:
single file, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
And I'M Hungry For You...AND I'M HUNGRY FOR YOU
Three days passed, Billy again is sitting relax in his favorite place. Smile flower from his face as he watch closely a single file of shadows on the w......
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Categories:
single file, absence, children, desire, feelings,
Form:
Haibun
My Concrete Rose...My concrere rose
Stone in single file under the rock;
Scraping purple sea shells under the dock.
The seeds scattered all but one spot,
Blossom bloom, blowing memories.
Fading illusion I ......
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Categories:
single file, dark, death, depression, gothic,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heart Died a Little Bit Today...My Heart Died A Little Bit Today
My heart died a little bit today
I watched the news and felt it skip a beat
Seeing the death and destruction on the streets
I remembered back when things seeme......
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Categories:
single file, patriotic, political, pollution,
Form: