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Best Slew Poems

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


Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: slew, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated Part Three, the Conclusion
Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated
Part Three, (the Conclusion)

Dawn, bright rays fell upon Achilles and his band
exiting ship, Greek sandals felt soft...

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Categories: slew, art, character, dedication, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas' ...
          And with finances dead,
      ...

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Categories: slew, christmas, funny, humorous, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The White Stallion Arrives
The White Stallion Arrives


The White horse came in so very fast
with purpose and great deeds to last
Arriving in a spirited tour de force
evil alerted, took...

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Categories: slew, conflict, dark, deep, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Defiled By Hate
She was a Capulet and he a Montague
Yet the moment their eyes locked, such great passion grew
Scaled her balcony, professions of love to croon
Juliet warned,...

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Categories: slew, lost love, sadlove,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Earl of Pence
'Twas a dark and stormy night! (OK - so I'm being a tad histrionic!)
The Earl of Pence was lounging by the fire sipping his gin...

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Categories: slew, england, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Go Ask Alice
Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he...

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Categories: slew, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen,
Form: Quatrain
La Pieta
Then, he knew why he must hew
old memories from marble- 
emotions quarried from heart's slew- 
Oblique fight with his faith's garble

Cut block unfolds Christ, enthroned
on...

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Categories: slew, appreciation, art, devotion, jesus,
Form: Alliteration
Where Are the Bones
...He said: "I believe there is a God.
Something ingenious was most definitely
at play.
But, I've asked some other
reverends, pastors, and ministers,

where are Jesus' bones?
Not one convinced...

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Categories: slew, atheist,
Form: Free verse
The Flight of An Arrow
Dawn broke
The eastern pink sky
Drew across the stars
As they faded and lost to the night

 

I called the eagle
To guide me
Piercing whistle
That I learnt as...

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Categories: slew, adventure
Form: Ballad
Shade
You speak as if you've read all the pages.
All knowing; bestow yourself this grace.
Beneath that serenity lies an abandoned cage.
Don't try to hide what's scrawled...

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Categories: slew, analogy, beautiful, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
Embroiled
You’re feeling so uncomfortably 
				like a lobster lately,
embroiled in hot controversy
Heated debates swirling all around you,
as your deep-fried life
jumps from the frying pan to the...

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Categories: slew, food, funny, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slew, word play,
Form: I do not know?
The Depature
I lay here lost inside my mind
Trapped within my shell
Hearing all the world around
Can't talk or even yell

My wife tells me she loves me
She strokes...

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Categories: slew, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Music and Poetry, Perfect Bedfellows - Inspired By Fj Thomas Blog
I slept with my guitar,    
I guess was inept.
I was not in accord,
my guitar slowly wept

I slept with my piano
—such a torrid...

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Categories: slew, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs