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Best Slippery Slope Poems

Below are the all-time best Slippery Slope poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slippery slope poems written by PoetrySoup members


Utopia's Slippery Slope Continuum
Utopia's Slippery Slope Continuum 

        Trees of pink snow bloom
     by the lake when...

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Categories: slippery slope, allegory, change, perspective, success,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Life According To Miss Ooh-La-La
She sits perched, like a gorgeous gargoyle, upon the boulder
splotched with spots of mint chocolate ice cream moss - the wind tasting
her lovely locks as...

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Categories: slippery slope, beauty, fantasy, feelings, funny
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Touch the Sky
Romantics weave a web of hope
spun from frayed threads of a daydream.
Yet, it's as strong as any rope
and as bracing as a cool stream.
Life offers...

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Categories: slippery slope, anxiety, deep, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Been There Done That
(Coming Back Home)

Crimson sunsets trickled beyond the moor
Opulence of one’s youth a mindset forever stays,
Miracle of homely birthplace the lure
Inspired by non-forgotten special days.
Neon lights...

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Categories: slippery slope, remember,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member I Praise You
Lord, I praise You for Your goodness.
I praise You for Your love.
I praise You for the kindness,
That You've shown throughout my life.

I'd be dead if...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slippery slope, prayer,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Joe the Plumber
Joe The Plumber announced he was runnin' fer Congress the other day!
Congratulations, Joe!  You the man!  Fer you I shout, "Hooray!"
Tell 'em like...

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Categories: slippery slope, funny, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the...

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Categories: slippery slope, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scoffing Love
2013
Vicki Acquah


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Categories: slippery slope, betrayal, day, devotion, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Finding God
A splendiferous scarlet disk ever
so slowly sinks into night's ebony abyss. 
And silhouettes and shadows embrace,
imbuing dusk with a natural grace.

Finding God here is just
as...

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Categories: slippery slope, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear Or Caution
Fear Or Caution
By: Miracle Man
4-24-2022

Fear and caution are not the same,
and fear never births a worthwhile thought.
Fear is a twin to mind’s “what if” game,
and...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slippery slope, anxiety, evil, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Reality
Reality, a slippery soap
It's slipping from my hands
But God is helping me cope
With trials I don't understand

Reality, a slippery slope
I'm slipping as I land
But God...

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Categories: slippery slope, christian, confusion, depression, god,
Form: Rhyme
One Crystal Tear
I used to  h e a r  her excited LAUGHTER,
             the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slippery slope, sorrow, time, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Felt An Ache Inside
When just a boy, I felt an ache inside
for not liking girls as other boys did.
And I still remember the nights I cried
for feeling feelings...

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Categories: slippery slope, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Premium Member Dancing On Thin Ice
the heart is always right
unless this time it’s wrong
and this time is not like all the others

this game he must not lose
too much at risk
no...

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Categories: slippery slope, future, introspection, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Judge Me
Don’t judge me because I am not like you
We are all human, but different too
We have our experiences and ways we cope
To survive life’s curves...

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Categories: slippery slope, feelings, judgement, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs