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Best Souring Poems

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


The Old Man of Merces1
The Old man of Merces  

His wrinkled face bearing slaps of time
His eyes barren like a desert starved of rain
Glittering they must be during...

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Categories: souring, allegory, caregiving, depression, lifeold,
Form: Rhyme



Possum Juggling
POSSUM JUGGLING  
  Written By the Poets Listed After The Poem.  
  
Possum juggling is a trick conjuring sport.  
You...

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Categories: souring, animals, fantasypoets, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Steamy Affair
I see you in deep thought of me,
and I ask myself if I should ripple your complexion..?

I gaze in those reflective eyes,
And simmer yet swim...

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Categories: souring, love,
Form: Free verse
He Loves Me
My tears are pouring,
And my heart is souring,
My heart is racing,
My body’s pacing,
I heart beating fast,
I can’t let this become the past,
I will answer tonight,
Before...

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Categories: souring, devotion, love, passion, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skyward 81
child on a swing souring skyward - frozen mountain peak slices through iced clouds...

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Categories: souring, mountains,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,

On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,

For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,

Had lacked company, and therefore,...

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Categories: souring, death, grief, introspection, march,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cry the Beloved Contenent
CRY THE BELOVED CONTINENT…
     (Apropos The Ripping Veil of Pan-Africanism)

In all her blackness
her soils run red
with the blood of her children

Whose...

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Categories: souring, africa, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Beloved Wife
My beloved wife

It was the crows calling that gave the final warning on this mid October morning.
Just as the mist began falling upon the hills...

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Categories: souring, funeral, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
White Dove
Above...
rain and thunder
starts to upset the stomach of a now souring sky
it prepares itself to release a few tears
upon those seeking truth for their lies
in...

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© Kurt Kohls  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: souring, faith, forgiveness, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse
Orekelewa Jojolo
Orekelewa Jojolo,

ripened womanhood
juicy-full of future too
how your innocent bloom
of purest passion ooze
sink gleam of grim eyes
a hungry devour, deep, high
to steal and feel your fruit
your...

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Categories: souring, beauty, christian, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Back To Eden—stimulating
Temperately cooled shade 
From Cedar trees off the 
Coast of Lebanon
Shielded our state of 
Nudity.  Sincerely we
Speculated; as I wonderfully 
Whispered in her esthetic...

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Categories: souring, adventure, imagination, love, passion,
Form: Burlesque
Unbreakable
You View Me Arrogant- Beholding My Values Bullish.
I’m A Problem Inevitable- Only In The Eyes Of The Foolish
A Philosopher, In The Thoughts Of The Wise,
For...

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Categories: souring, africa, anger, change, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Thing Called Love
This thing that they call love can not be measured
it comes to us all whether we want it or not.
Sneaking up it hits us in...

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Categories: souring, love,
Form: Epic
Still
As I open my wide brown glazing eyes....
I stop and realize.....
This is who is am...
You get one soul as you do one mind....But as you...

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Categories: souring, deep, depression,
Form: Cinquain
Louis Pasteur
How to keep microbes from souring alcohol?
Submit them to pasteurization and kill them all!
Want your ale sweet when it is done brewing?
Destroy all the bacteria...

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Categories: souring, science, silly,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things