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Best Sleeveless Poems

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


These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: sleeveless, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse



What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: sleeveless, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Autumn Night
one late night in the grip of a super moon, captivated by the elegance of  
the season in an even slumber with bulbs sleeping...

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Categories: sleeveless, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely Walk
Alone I walked on a littered part
A companion I seek on my journey
Saluting me was a weird man afar
Sitting inside an abandoned caravan
Looking tattered in...

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Categories: sleeveless, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Smitten Old Man
SMITTEN OLD MAN

High school year book, 47
I’m not a gad looking guy –
Short hair, sport coat, tie

This remembered as I gaze across the room
She’s sitting...

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Categories: sleeveless, autumn, humor,
Form: Free verse



The Black and White Arms of Justice
Black crime, Justice prevails
Lilly White Crime, no justice hailed

When the crimes of a man weigh more than the crimes of a man, 
Justice has failed

We...

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Categories: sleeveless, anger, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dingo Kid
Beware of the dingo and watch out for your goat,
he hates our current leader, but is unable to vote.
He’s been doing hard time for relations...

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Categories: sleeveless, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Ezra
To the hands that held copper
in red, gleaming red
in open palms brimming
in value, like gold
To these hands of faith
with utensils and bowls
stone upon stone was...

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Categories: sleeveless, devotion, faith, history, people,
Form: Rhyme
Dazzling Lady of the 21st Century
Enthusiasm, the planet occupied.
As Sapiens lives in rage
Strives to come after 
But all in sleeveless

Hence, in the land of the living,
Arouse  a living Queen,
Waved...

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Categories: sleeveless, best friend, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Radiant Fall
Fall's levitating leaves,
wafting on gentle breeze.
Each one vainly believes
it can fly high with ease.
Colors beg hearts to cease!

Kaleidoscopic trees
wave wild without surcease, 
flailing sleeveless chemise,
bringing...

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Categories: sleeveless, autumn, color, flying, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
She Was Alone
She Was Alone
My brother Joseph told me one day:
I ran to the beach in the need to be alone, 
Resting my head on the soft...

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Categories: sleeveless, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Erosion 1 and 2
Erosion - 1

With a scholar eye I am looking at-

Looking at Sharpened Dream,
Burning heart burning across
Feeling the sour, feeling the layer

Is being wet tongue, gradually...

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Categories: sleeveless, confusion, depression, imagination, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Waltz With My Prince
Elegant intoxicating ballroom, with polished marble floor, archways lining the walls rising to the ceiling in mahogany trim. Candle holders with lit candles between each...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sleeveless, dance, imagery, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Futyre Child Syndrome Exposed
In a moment there was time a child could grasp corporeal and gracious
It stopped and I carefully gave non notice to educasees
that paused me to...

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Categories: sleeveless, character, children, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Queen of Beauty
With her darkened gaze filled with deepness
Under that curly hair of black ceases
A smile, as staggering, everlasting and pure
As she settles on a chair,
She crosses...

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Categories: sleeveless, angst, art, life, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs