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

An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver

Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: sorts, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Big Girls Do Cry

They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: sorts, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse

Healing Power of the Drum

your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: sorts, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse

The View From a Window

A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...

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Categories: sorts, life,
Form: Rhyme

Would You

Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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Categories: sorts, love, political,
Form: Free verse

I Love You

I wonder why
It's always so strange
                   ...

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Categories: sorts, girlfriend-boyfriend, lovelove,
Form: Free verse

Feeling Blue and Knotted Up


in the fervour of my sweat
sheets drenched
i wake to the toxic bellow of my own voice
in the torment of my own thoughts

in the complexity of...

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Categories: sorts, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Laureate

"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: sorts, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism

Long Forsaking

Faraway, across a widening 
Expanse of vacant fields,
Dawns slated light is gradually 
Awaking;
And too soon new Morn's stilled 
Indifference 
Determinedly steals
Into the abstractions  of...

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Categories: sorts, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Baxter Bug and the Purple Orb

Baxter was born in a meadow 
under a rotting plank
with hundreds of brothers and sisters
in a home both darkly and dank.

His momma was a June...

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Categories: sorts, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Around the Corner

As I walk downtown I see an alley 
Where a black cat sat staring up at me,
The sound of her purring was so soothing 
Lulled...

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Categories: sorts, cat, halloween, october, scary,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Ante Bellum

“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: sorts, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse

- Ass In Hole -

This is the donkey; Alice

                 ... follows the rabbit...

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Categories: sorts, blue, humor, nonsense, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry

An Emerald, Most Rare

It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: sorts, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative

- the Fabulous Queen of Egypt -

Woke up to a new life in Egypt
I was young not more than seventeen years
Adorned with gold and precious stones
My body was in the shroud...

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Categories: sorts, history, life, love, me,
Form: Free verse