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Best Sped Poems

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


Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: sped, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sped, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: sped, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Train - POTD
 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...

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Categories: sped, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Is Jack
Yesterday I saw a very creepy mouse, 
Sneaking right through my front door, 
He was wearing tails and a top black hat 
And dragging a...

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Categories: sped, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member How Do You Like Them Apples
Coming from Texas, I knew he’d be loud
And soon I discovered that two is a crowd
Is that the privy? he asked of my house
When he...

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Categories: sped, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mortality's Own Friend
(Inspired by Abe Lincoln’s poem “Memory”)

Mortality's Own Friend

So sadly here, among the dead,
I live - mortality's own friend.
Recalling all that's lost, I tread
so sadly here,...

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Categories: sped, memory,
Form: Triolet
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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© J. Summers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sped, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: sped, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Winters End
Hereabouts the thinning glades
Of sparse grey Birches:
Brackens crisp copper tresses 
All aglow;
Gently waking Snowdrops
Lift their sleepy heads
From leafy beds of woodland moil,
When tucked snugly up,
Out...

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Categories: sped, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Accolade
Fighting mid the strong and bold,
His eye and blade were keen;
Marching like a thund'ring storm
On foes of Faith, his queen.

Now returned in victory
Upon his mighty...

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Categories: sped, christian, faith, love, me,
Form: Ballad
Dangerous Green
The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing...

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Categories: sped, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Heard Our Mama Pray
Summer 1967
                       ...

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Categories: sped, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Intriguing Odour
Me cars down at the doctors ‘cause there’s trouble with the coil,
and somewhere I’m losing water so once or twice I’ve had it boil.
It needs...

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Categories: sped, humor,
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: sped, birth, blessing, child, creation,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things