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Best Slid Poems

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


Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: slid, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: slid, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tangled Vines
I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new...

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Categories: slid, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Digger's Children
I paced between the old and new
along the rows where gray stones grow,
so careful not to tread upon
the freshly filled and seeded few.
Soft shadows slid...

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Categories: slid, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: slid, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Sweetest Love Note
One night a guy & a girl were
driving home from the movies. The
boy sensed there was
something wrong because of the painful
silence they shared between them
that...

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Categories: slid, black african american, death,
Form: Narrative
My Poetry Book
I have read that book
cover to cover
many a time
It's held me when I was down 
gave me smiles all night long
It has given me a...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slid, poetry, poets, sad, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Train To Auschwitz
In nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...

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Categories: slid, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pick Up Your Pen and Write
A week passed, yet no words drifted in my mind
I feared I'd become numb and poetically blind
so, I gave up, went to bed and turned...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slid, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed...

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Categories: slid, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Big Fat Cousin's Wedding
My favorite cousin named Marge
is almost as big as a barge.
So one would assume, 
not knowing the groom,
the guy would most likely be large.

But he...

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Categories: slid, funny, dance, fire, dance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member When Mount St Helens Blew Her Top
Where forests stretched for miles, and Spirit Lake
lay at its foot, there stood a rebel peak.
One day the earth beneath began to quake.
What havoc Mother...

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Categories: slid, mountains,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Conquering Rainbows
With the sun shining on my right side
And the clouds pouring rain on my left
It seemed to me, I didn’t have too far to go
To...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slid, fantasy, children, me, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aurora
She danced across the heavens
 Whirling and twirling in delight
  She slid up and down creating images
  With delight she colored the sky
...

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Categories: slid, places, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: slid, people, society,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs