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Best Slo Poems

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


Premium Member perfect storm -
from the forest, deep, she came
      like a jaguar, quietly prowling
         drawn...

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Categories: slo, metaphor, ocean, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member How Sweet It Is
One year I spent Halloween in New York City.
O Henry was the name of my taxi driver. I told
him to Take 5 while I stopped...

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Categories: slo, candy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member How Sweet It Is
I was walking on the heath near Rocky Road with Mike and Ike, we’d been pals since our college days and called ourselves The Three...

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Categories: slo, fun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope
"Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope"

A Dream: the 4th Christmas.





deck the halls 
with memories
poets whisper pasts
that are ne’er forgotten

where presents 
a life 
that’s neatly wrapped
and attempts at...

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Categories: slo, christmas, dark, light,
Form: Romanticism
Not Just Any Sunset
NOT   JUST   ANY   SUNSET

This lunar sunset was what he’d most miss  -
They always said death was like this...

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Categories: slo, adventure, night, old, red,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member How Sweet It Is
As I went with my friends MIKE and IKE 
Like THREE MUSKETEERS we went for a hike 
Down a ROCKY ROAD we watched for birds...

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Categories: slo, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Sweet It Is
Rules: Use at least 10 candy names from those listed below.
(30 candy names used)


Tomorrow we'll explore our Galaxy,
not just by space ship, but with 'space...

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Categories: slo, future, humorous, space, voyage,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Hardest Thing
we're here again
you in denim skirt
shrinking against long legs
I in (imaging) nothing
sheen & glisten in moonlight
interior car lamp light
tan
crimped high hair & bangs
blue eyeliner
mascara
easy to...

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Categories: slo, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Sweet It Is
Life most certainly has its ups and downs.
Sometimes life may be as breathtaking as a Galaxy of whimsical Starburst. 
Heroes and adored Lifesavers protect our...

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Categories: slo, candy, funny, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Grandfather Clock
An Antique Clock, a familiar place
Gathers dust -
and rust
But three gold chimes which hang lo' face
As Its hands go 'round
Familiar sound repeats
The pendulum, "to -fro,...

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Categories: slo, allegory, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Defcon 4
Tonight the understaffed was overloaded with impatient calls n' flashing buttons buzzing the central core
I marathoned from room to room in frantic answer 
My vision...

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© Meghan G  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slo, peace, work, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Is There Anything Else
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS





I am demanding my own star in the sky when I die
I’ve handled all the hardships no judge can deny
I...

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Categories: slo, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Itokov
Shuld
Itokov
Nanas
Slo
Deth
Dance
N'
Aged
Frame
of
Kni
Bluen
Grey
Heaps
To stone
Before
Mi
Very
Ize

This
Deth
Repel
This
Negative
Prospect
Ov
Not
Is
Highly
Cept
To a
Flux
Frm
Flortowall
Frm
Sonic
Sub
Howls
N'
Nether
Worlds
Gone
Incrax
N'
Pop
Atoff
the Ambivilles
With haste

Plumbeting
Properly
Clocked
To watch
The not
Ov
Eternal
Free
Free
 
 

Mary Singleton (Nana)
1908-1992

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© Meghan G  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slo, caregiving, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Candy Wrapper Story
We were a group of Nerds, there was Kit Kat,
Mike and Ike, I'll never forget handsome Heath ;
       ...

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Categories: slo, fun,
Form: Verse
Patterson, New Jersey Circa December 1st, 1957
amidst cavorting delightfully, enjoying thorough
frolicking gingerly, foreign hick hating slo
hip-hopping insouciantly sustaining row

biological status quo
kvetching lamely moreso mother became pro
naturally physically rumbling, 
  ...

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Categories: slo, age, angel, beautiful, birthday,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs