Best Sorta Poems
Below are the all-time best Sorta poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sorta poems written by PoetrySoup members
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
sorta, people,
Form:
Free verse
Like a GirlI play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl,
And when I run -- I run like a...
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Categories:
sorta, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
sorta, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
White CaneHe walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man
With a white cane, in...
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Categories:
sorta, community, history, memory,
Form:
Pantoum
She Is, Or Maybe She Is NotShe found herself
In the shards of who I am
The broken bits
The shadows
The resurrection of yesterday's pauses
I wonder
Was it the happy bits
The quiet contemplations
Or does she...
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Categories:
sorta, appreciation, emotions, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Compadre
We’ve shared the trail, kicked up some dust,
An’ stood a storm or two.
We’ve rode the plains, the wide frontier,
The easy trails were few.
You’ve listened like...
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Categories:
sorta, animals, cowboy-western, death, friendship,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Straight For GayOften made to feel you’re less
Should you care any more?
Can you escape the cruelty,
while occupying your own shore?
People remain unbalanced,
by only seeing you one way.
For...
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Categories:
sorta, celebration, pride,
Form:
Quatrain
ThirstyThirsty
I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like...
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Categories:
sorta, betrayal, corruption, death, future,
Form:
Prose
Special OccasionI want to be
your special occasion
To see you smile
like you’re on vacation
That in a cool sorta way
I’m your happy activation
I...
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Categories:
sorta, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
He Wasn'THe was an ugly handsome
In a foreword backwards kinda way
Silent and outspoken
with nothing great to say
Strong with a strange weakness
Secrets he could...
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Categories:
sorta, addiction, angst,
Form:
Quatrain
Pun FunI had an IPod problem!
I fixed it, this is how!
I named the thing "Titanic",
by God, it's "syncing" now!
I was wondering where the sun goes?
I stayed...
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Categories:
sorta, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Conversational Twists and TurnsTopics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening...
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Categories:
sorta, funny, high school,
Form:
Rhyme
FadedI was here once
But now I'm one of the forgotten ones
I faded away slowly
Imperceptibly
Like the once vibrant blue of blue jeans
The edges frayed...
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Categories:
sorta, cool, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Cat 5I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin'...
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Categories:
sorta, cat, dream, song,
Form:
Quatrain
Ham Hock and BaconMy uncle Dran was an odd sorta man
who never much cared for livestock.
But wouldn't you know he kept a pig he loved so,
and...
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Categories:
sorta, animal, farm, food, pets,
Form:
Couplet