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Best Spate Poems

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


Premium Member Tale of Righteous and Just Demise of Old Jack
Tale Of Righteous And Just Demise Of Old Jack

Old Jack had shot many before, once just for the sheer hell of it
Never squeamish about the...

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Categories: spate, art, creation, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Soul's Cry
Marooned on the island of loneliness
Shadows of delusion confront me
In a stormy sea, I got shipwrecked
And the sea has robbed everything from me
What unanticipated change...

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Categories: spate, angst, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Moss of Glen Affric
The phantoms of Glen Affric call
from deep within the histosol,

where time and matter’s slow decay
of misty glen and ancient fray,

conceal Mackenzie ghosts in wait
with weapons...

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Categories: spate, history, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Bee Came Buzzing
A bee came buzzing too soon, too soon
The season is not yet in its June
The sap must rise to the breast of the moon
And roots...

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Categories: spate, hope, natureearth,
Form: Verse
Of Motion and Stillness
OF MOTION and STILLNESS

The meer now seen in frantic action spate
The feathered life all bustling with a will
Intent on search for food or for a...

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Categories: spate, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Free Verse Fever
The aria of the sunburst slivers of the sky,
entwined with the cadence of your ivory feet,
winding on the pearl-rolled silver sea shore,
carves the rhythm of...

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Categories: spate, imagery, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Building Tension
Written: February 15, 2024
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I ultimately rule over these...

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Categories: spate, analogy, anger, mystery, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Golden Moon Tableau
Tableau Poetry Contest                 Sponsored by: Joseph May
Written: August 15,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spate, analogy, appreciation, moon,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ocean Symphony
Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                   ...

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Categories: spate, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After the Floods
Dark clouds loomed over the horizon
They broke loose in unprecedented force
Nature’s wrath, sudden violence acquired
It rained down as if unleashing all her fury
It was a...

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Categories: spate, angst, destiny, earth, rain,
Form: Free verse
I Love the Sound of Your Voice
I love the sound of your voice
My heart sings when you speak
Turns into symphonies and orchestras
Of sweet melodious bliss 
That when my ear tastes
My inner...

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Categories: spate, addiction, cute love, dedication,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Judge and Jury
Should I disregard
what other people think or,
balanced on the brink, maintain
a thin-veneered façade?
Where shall I store,
how shall I keep,
the poetry I must write
but cannot show--
that...

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Categories: spate, abuse, analogy, angst, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cool Withdrawal From Love
Cool withdrawal from love

Do not think that I love you less
Than when at your mercy I lay
But to forestall the sad distress
Of forlorn love, I...

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Categories: spate, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member There Is No Greater Love Than This
THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS


"For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn  the world,
 but that the world through...

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Categories: spate, character, christian, cry, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hell Translation Canto *** Part 2
And after had passed the two enraged by
On which I had before pointed my sight,
I turned to others evil-born my eye.

I saw one, who the...

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Categories: spate, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Shattered Sighs