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Best Socket Poems

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


Premium Member Q Tipping
I remember when
Q was part of a Tip
now Q is a one way trip
to crazy town
It’s a place where thoughts flip
and up is down
Where every...

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Categories: socket, abuse, america, angst, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Lifes Simplicity Maintained
You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...

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Categories: socket, career, character, cheer up,
Form: Epic
Paint a Picture Black and Gray
Pull out the easel
   set the canvas 
    positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: socket, africa, art, dark, grief,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Blood of Your Passion
He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought...

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Categories: socket, allegory, america, angst, today,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A "hopeless" Diamond (In the Rough)
French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died...

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Categories: socket, history, mysterylost, hope, lost,
Form: Quatrain



Horsing Around
I’m sick of hearing from old Bill that I’m a whimpish sort of bloke,
Because I don’t care for rodeo’s and can’t relate to outback folk,
That...

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Categories: socket, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day Dreaming
the red glow so far away
so close, embraced
the burst of innervated dawn
restraining its awe

the uplift of a lemony-spring
sponge-squeezed from the sudsy sun
the faucet of quiet...

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Categories: socket, imagery,
Form: Verse
A Mouse In the House
A little grey mouse 
snuck into the house 
to get himself out of the cold. 

Then the house cat 
Who saw where he sat 
pursued...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: socket, children, funny, house, dad,
Form: Light Verse
She Wore Pineapple Rings For Glasses
She wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery,...

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Categories: socket, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins” 

The womb
is scooped like 
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost...

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Categories: socket, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Invisible Prison
Invisible Prison

I look at the wall
	I look at the floor
I look out the window
	I look at the door
No clock on the wall
	No light in the...

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Categories: socket, chicago, death, depression, psychological,
Form: Free verse
You Need Hands - Limerick Contest
There is a young man called Alan Sprocket
Always has both hands in his pocket
Said it keeps him calm and warm
So why is he a twitching...

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Categories: socket, happy,
Form: Limerick
Valentine Tango In Honeymoon
Fly me to the moon
                    ...

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Categories: socket, dedication, devotion, friendship, husband,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Electric Shock Treatment
I'm sure this has happened to most of you
You come up with this brilliant thought
Before you have a chance to write it down
It vanishes like...

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Categories: socket, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Childhood Treasures
Entering the cave of a wide open mouth
Pulling on the slippery uvula 
Reaching for the nasal cavity
Taking a breath before leaping for the eye socket
Where...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: socket, family, mothermother, mom, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs