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


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: spared, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member March 19 Memories
Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of...

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Categories: spared, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Can Argue Miracles Exist
Who Can Argue Miracles Exist?

No man, be he grandiloquent or coarse;
             be he...

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Categories: spared, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member T'Was the Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had...

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Categories: spared, christmas, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Potd Gratitude, a Great Habit

To wake each day, alive and whole!
Verily a gift for all to behold.


We assume, we will see another day?
Anything can happen, petition....pray.


Going to bed and...

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Categories: spared, god, inspiration, poets, sleep,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member My Name Is Scheherazade
I do not want to die
Like each virgin you bed
When you have ravished her
It's off with pretty head

I do not want to die
But…Oh to be...

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Categories: spared, history, how i feel,
Form: Epic
Stupid Smart
What does it look like
From over there
Describe the sights
No details spared 

How does it taste
Is it always delicious
By the look on your face
I’m a bit...

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Categories: spared, confusion, culture, irony, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Daddy Please
Daddy will you hold me and
Tell me I’ll be okay?
Will you whisper in my ear
All the things you used to say

Will you squeeze me tight,
And...

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Categories: spared, angst, childhood, faith, father,
Form: Rhyme
What I Feel No Words Could Bear
What would be of me
if you could be with me

How would be my present days
if ever you were spared other few days

I open wide my...

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Categories: spared, beauty, bereavement, blessing, celebration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Happy Thanksgiving To You All
This is a terrible time of year for Turkeys
How many innocent lives are going to be lost?
All their friends and relations are in for the...

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Categories: spared, america, celebration, food, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member If Not For Dying
When I’m enticed by the allure of forever,
Ambivalent, I query, prospect of eternity:
If there’s no dying, what fate’s my destiny?
Would such existence be sans meaning?

Would...

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Categories: spared, death, introspection, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ice King
He grew within a frigid place
No one thought those legs would ever part
A Dark Prince thawed her frozen heart

A member long and stiff like ice
Penetrates
Cuts...

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Categories: spared, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pow's Escape
POW confined in a cage
Through Viet Cong jungles bullets raged

No sweat from his pores in unrelenting sun
Dehydration, famine, yet his needs were none

A tepid river...

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Categories: spared, mystery, visionary, war
Form: Couplet
Trial and the Judgement
Thrashed her life in that vicious fuscous night
Tattered her body in that mucky verdant site
Shattered her dreams in that bloody wicked plight
Four feigned civilized animals,...

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Categories: spared, anger, death, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
You Took My Life As I Gave You Yours
Nervous, apprehensive, determined most of all
Excitement on hold, a job to be done
His greatest gift, holy, our creation.
I was prepared, clarity in vision.
Betrayed, a body...

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Categories: spared, birth, blessing, child, creation,
Form: Bio

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