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Best Specimen Poems

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


Clair De Lune
When evening dusk falls from the edge of night 
like a loosened taffeta from bridal halls 
the wrist pulse slows as the stars align 
their...

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Categories: specimen, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Disassemble Me
It's something inconclusive
This feeling that I'm not
A perfect human specimen 
Lukewarm compared to hot

I scrutinise the mirror
That I carry in my phone
It tells me of...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: specimen, encouraging, god, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Leonardo Dicaprio
Dedicated to my love: Leonardo DiCaprio

For how many years have I loved you
I think it has to be about eighteen
We were both so young in...

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Categories: specimen, celebrity, film, for him,
Form: Rhyme
What Do You Mean I'Ve Been Photo Shopped
WHAT THE!!!.........WHO IS THIS???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN PHOTO SHOPPED???
How could that possibly be?
I only wanted the picture cropped and framed!
You can't really think...

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Categories: specimen, computer, humor, imagery, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Leprechaun
Through my window I watched it float gracefully by
An eloquent specimen, a rare butterfly
Wings painted black and the brightest of green
The most breathtaking creature I...

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Categories: specimen, allegory, dream,
Form: Epic



Premium Member My Ring Trilogy - the Poems
You Know Who You Are! 

I know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to...

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Categories: specimen, hurt, jealousy, recovery from,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Split Wide Open
Summer’s sweetest natural dessert
Presented itself to me in the form of a
Large seeded watermelon that
I found by chance at a local food stand.
Thrilled was I...

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Categories: specimen, fruit,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Annabelle
She’s furlicious, sweet and kind.
Not one bite of violence between her teeth.
Loves a good rubdown of her ruddy physique.
An old lady with a kick.
Still knows...

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Categories: specimen, dog,
Form: Personification
Snatched
Snatched and grabbed, reefed off me horse,
Just crossed over the watercourse,
Big white light it came and got,
Zapped me, jerked me up aloft,
A bloody flying saucer.

Saw...

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Categories: specimen, adventure, me, light, light,
Form: Rhyme
Unrelated To Anything
she tries not to appear COLDLY CYNICAL

her posture is LOOSE and RECEPTIVE

her body pitched PROGRESSIVELY FORWARD

         ...

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Categories: specimen, life
Form: I do not know?
Bag of Spiders
Disgusting could be a weaker word to express the scene,
Nauseating and stomach-churning the locus has been;
Sliding, slithering, groveling, crouching, crawling, creeping, 
Filling, feeling, and falling...

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Categories: specimen, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Natures Offspring
warm spring day dipping toes in the cool creek I spot a geode; a large specimen, of crystals that I will clean  and admire...

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Categories: specimen, nature, poems, poetry, water,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member There's Not Much New Today
THERE’S NOT MUCH NEW TODAY
THE SKY IS BLUE TODAY
THE SUMMER’S END IS NEAR
MY SPECIMEN IS CLEAR

I’M HAPPY AS CAN BE
TO LOSE MY SANITY
MY LIFE IS...

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Categories: specimen, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Ungrateful Son
Self righteous there, he stands and preens, this perfect specimen
Due to Mothers nurturing, alive and prospering.
Forgotten are the years of toil, the Mothers care and...

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Categories: specimen, childhood, dedication, children, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dude, Where's My Automobile
Not advertising that flippant flick. I just want to know
where my blooming flivver is. It ruffles my feathers no
end to find out, when exiting the...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: specimen, animal, bird, car, fish,
Form: Burlesque

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