Best Snippet Poems
Below are the all-time best Snippet poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of snippet poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Venerable Dad - Memory Snippet On Fathers DayLucky day! Father McShane was on the altar.
I knelt in gratitude, in silent applause.
He said mass faster than the lead car in a...
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Categories:
snippet, father, father, father,
Form:
Free verse
The ButterflySweet beautiful butterfly that sails the celestial seas,
With narcotizing nuclei that brings me to my knees…
Spreading gaseous light, throughout the multiverses’,
A scintillating sight, where immortal...
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Categories:
snippet, space, spiritual, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...
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Categories:
snippet, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
Pretentious Collaboration Written During Conversation (Credit To Emmily Rosa)I
"Gotta job as a nanny!"
"Maybe they'll hire me as a butler"
"Butler and nanny always live
in close quarters"
She winks
He raises and eyebrow suggestively
II
"I love flirting with...
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Categories:
snippet, people, love, may, time,
Form:
Free verse
Bad Mouth BrigadeA vindictive old crone called Skyla
Her comments could not be more vile’a
She will give folk such flack
Stabbing them in the back
Well 'madam' I don’t like...
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Categories:
snippet, bullying, poetry, words,
Form:
Limerick
Hands - Love Series 1You cannot imagine how deeply miss’d
That gentle smile and your tender kiss
Are to my restless soul. But respite found
It’s way to my longing as a...
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Categories:
snippet, i love you, love,
Form:
Sonnet
I Live To BelieveI live to believe
I treasure tomorrows
I measure yesterdays
I forget sorrows
I grab praises
Every story unfolds
Even when untold
My footsteps and breathes
Are the threads of my will and...
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Categories:
snippet, age, faith, life, passion,
Form:
Ballad
Excerpt Number 1Time is a consumer of
lives and souls and thoughts and love
The world that once turned yesterday
has forever gone away
Was it not good, what used to...
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Categories:
snippet, life, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Ongoing Mental De-EvolutionAnyone can write…
and drown in their self-delusions;
from persons into personifications
lists of passions, glorify self's illusions;
down those lists,
most...
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Categories:
snippet, poetry, political, rap, writing,
Form:
Free verse
LifeLife
Arabic Poem by: Riyadh Al-Ghareeb*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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It was not his idea
He did not wave to the...
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Categories:
snippet, arabic, deep, grief, poets,
Form:
Narrative
A Grandmother's LegacyWarming lights surround you
Quilting the sharp silence
Outside dawn begins
Earth starts stretching
Straightening out the knots
Caught from hours of slumber
Night moves on to blacken another sky
And...
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Categories:
snippet, death, grandmother, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Thursday NightsTHURSDAY NIGHTS
Her game was whist,
Whilst mine the window vigil
Empty dark and wet
Blackness and pools of light
Lone nine year old watchman
Eyestrain through the rain
Glued...
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Categories:
snippet, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Seasonal Sensational Love Seasonal sensational Love
These lovely eyes bracing the glimpse of Trees, Mountain,
And...
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Categories:
snippet, addiction, angel, cheer up,
Form:
Classicism
Puppet My PuppetPuppet my puppet the snippet of my life
In the time of blues you glue my phenotype
My foamy love caboodle
Fun run and kiss no boodle
You...
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Categories:
snippet, love,
Form:
Limerick
Pride of American Cousin-
The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day
The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away
Are you allowed to dance...
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Categories:
snippet, mothermother, dance, home, dance,
Form:
Rhyme