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Best Smarten Poems

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


I'M Back
Even if you don’t care I’ll tell you where I’ve been 
I took a break for a while, now I’m back ready to share my...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smarten, absence, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Certain Lunatic
Where are we headed, is a silver lining in sight
At the current pace, we'll be over the precipice before night
It's already dusk
Smarten up we must
Before...

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Categories: smarten, dark,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Grass Was Showing Only Two Days Ago
People call it a winter wonderland

I call it a lack of green

Not that green's my favourite colour

But it beats keeping driveways clean

As soon as we...

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Categories: smarten, winter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Back To Live
My smart iPhone drowned, what a dread! 
No purpose to get out of bed. 
Can’t do without fidgets 
With smarty pants digits 
When my social...

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Categories: smarten, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Stop Acting Like a Boob
When I look in the mirror each morning
This strange dude stands there sending me a warning
Smarten up there dude
Stop acting like a boob
Or a big...

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Categories: smarten, silly,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Failed Test
Now I am sleeping
The sleep of the dead
Laying in a coffin
Instead of a bed

My wife kept saying
I should have the test
I never listened
I thought I...

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Categories: smarten, health, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time To Grow Up
The older I get, the more loud noises
Annoy me and cause irritation
Got sensitive ears since becoming a senior
Sometimes prefer isolation

Alone with my thoughts of a...

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Categories: smarten, love,
Form: Quatrain
Countdown To Meltdown
It all started with a countdown from ten...
My own self-destruction shall begin
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired
From trying to get hired
To trying...

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Categories: smarten, death, depressionheart, heart, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ghosting
Ghosting

Online friends or family,
So selfish,they.
You could be dead and buried,
How would they know?

These are your best friends,
They loudly pronounce, 
They deceitfully say,
Who cannot check emails for 
180...

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Categories: smarten, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weather Gods
SO NOW we get warm summer weather!!!
Can't all the weather gods get together
Probably have a crystal ball
Think it needs an overhaul
If they don't smarten up,...

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Categories: smarten, weather,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Hope I Don'T Go Blind
Now why didn't I do this years ago
Lost a bunch and feel a hundred times better
Obsessed with eating? A resounding yes
Never followed any plan to...

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Categories: smarten, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Dumb It Down
You want me to dumb it down and write something simple
If I did that, I'd expect Shakespeare to come back from the dead and stab...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smarten, conflict, courage, culture, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Bang Bang
Bang! Bang! Thump! Thump!
Went the drums of life
down, down upon your head

Bang your dead! If you
Don’t smarten up
Huh! Huh! Sugar ain’t
What it used to be

Don’t...

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Categories: smarten, angst,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hope I Don'T Go Blind
Now why didn't I do this years ago
Lost a bunch and feel a hundred times better
Obsessed with eating? A resounding yes
Never followed any plan to...

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Categories: smarten, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Is the Human Race Trying To Extinguish Itself
Why with the
proliferation of nuclear arsenals
of a global scale
it seems as if
it's inevitable.
Someone eventually
has to drop
another nuclear bomb.
It appears that
it's only a
matter of time.
Why else...

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Categories: smarten, humanity, international, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs