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Best Skimp Over Poems

Below are the all-time best Skimp Over poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of skimp over poems written by PoetrySoup members


Letting Go
Their lives begin, that special day
Your hardest job, is on the way.
Walking and pacing, all night long
Knowing that one day, they’ll be strong.

Watching them crawl,...

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Categories: skimp over, family, life, teen, timeparents,
Form: Rhyme



Roll On
Lauren Hill slow songs thrill,

they pop like a fast moving pill,

I am flopped on top of a junk food bill,

and running with a skunk who...

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Categories: skimp over, baptism, beauty, city, eve,
Form: Blank verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The...

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Categories: skimp over, animal, creation, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Drought
We pray good times will come again,
As we sit and beg for rain,
We pray good times will soon draw nigh
As we dry the tears we...

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Categories: skimp over, community, courage, depression, farm,
Form: Ballad
A Real Black Man
if i could make a real black man
i'd bake him like a cake
i'd mix him up and pour him out
and this is what i'd take

i'd...

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Categories: skimp over, black-african amergod, god, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Magnet
There is a gigantic magnet
somewhere far out in deepest space
that holds the planets in their place
sun and moon too, do rise and set. 

All controlled...

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Categories: skimp over, god, space,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Failing Star - Mr Ox E Moron
He was an unpopular celebrity who enjoyed his liquid food
Acting weirdly normal when he was in a happy mood

He’d been on a heavy diet and...

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Categories: skimp over, fun, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Orange Cat
Just an ol' Tom Cat
dirty orange in color,
Rummaging like a rat
through filth and squalor

Painfully moving with an obvious limp
and a single eye from which to...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skimp over, animalscat,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Anorexia
Each weight increase signals defeat
and never fails to leave you blue.
For, when you strive to stay petite
each pound is repulsive to you.

You stare in the...

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Categories: skimp over, angst, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Corporate Pimps
Everybody deserves a day off,
even corporate pimps
Let somebody else watch the Madison Avenue whores
advertise their seductive cable street wares
Conscript the company pimp wannabe intern simps
Then...

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Categories: skimp over, allusion, corruption, jobs, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Surfing On West Coast Is Best
Surfing on West Coast Is Best

He was such a shrimp
Known by others as a wimp
On things liked to skimp.

He had saved so much
With reality lost...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skimp over, humorous,
Form: Haiku
Master Cat Race Rules of Living
Attention seeking gets rewarded so use anything that works.
Baby humans can be dangerous, especially for tails, ears and whiskers, so watch out!
Cats are masters and...

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Categories: skimp over, animal, cat, dog, food,
Form: ABC
Recipe For My Poetry
Recipe For My Poetry:

! Cup of release from reality
2 tbsps of too much time on one’s hands
As many cups of McDonald’s coffee you wish
So easy!...

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Categories: skimp over, creation, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M a Workin' Man
I'm just a common workin' man and have been all my life,
Laborin' eight hours a day to support my kids and wife.
Tryin' to do my...

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Categories: skimp over, family, day, day, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poppet's Prosey
Heaven knows why you wish to hear anger and misdirected blame
tossed toward you on the ether by unknown souls, what a shame ..
You are misguided,...

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Categories: skimp over, friendship, me, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

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