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Best Spleen Poems

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


Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: spleen, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Silent Song
"A Silent Song"

Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Blessed or cursed
Morning shave
Coffee please
Write a verse
Remembers last night’s dream
Grabs a napkin, spills his spleen
Shoves it in his pocket
Walks...

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Categories: spleen, imagery, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Flood Warning Collaboration - Inspired By Contest
I crossed my legs but there was a flood
Blushing red I hope folks understood
But my waters had burst
And the baby's my first
Guess I'm ready to...

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Categories: spleen, birth, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
A Shadow Emerges
I am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his...

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Categories: spleen, dark, light,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow Winged Angel
I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness, 
without want to weep and moan,
He...

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Categories: spleen, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?



The Reflection In the Mirror
I look into the mirror
And who is that I see?
Someone I don't recognise
Is looking back at me

The lines upon the forehead
That are called ‘worry lines'
Are...

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Categories: spleen, age, vanity, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green Cuisine
Lurking in fuzzy leftovers is seen
A quivering, crawling hairball of green
A florescent prune
Or cheese from the moon
Gurgles gastric, plastic alien spleen

The miser squire requires gluts...

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Categories: spleen, food, funny, nonsense, science
Form: Limerick
The Dark Death of the Divine
When death seeks a Valentine;
among Thy Angels, the devils dine,
And silently, the heavens break,
Thy Veil it stays, the liars rhyme;
And then Thy words, they fall...

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Categories: spleen, betrayal, conflict, dark, death,
Form: I do not know?
Scaredy Cat
Trembling in my bed tonight
I cannot close my eyes
The movie on the late, late show
Says everybody dies

Now some say I'm a scaredy cat
But tonight is...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spleen, funny
Form: Rhyme
Close Enough To Hear Men's Screams
the fifty cal pierced the tank
flash and bang, it quickly shrank

shrill high screams,so briefly heard,
then comes the death's, savage bird

thus pecked clean; blue eyes and...

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Categories: spleen, horror, men, military, war,
Form: Verse
Harridan In a Housecoat
~Harridan in a Housecoat~
Four small children sent for care as their mother was taken so ill
No father could they reach for them so they were...

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Categories: spleen, people, children, father, daughter,
Form: Quatern
Halloween Night
Halloween Night


Good evening Boys & Ghouls, with anticipation and all your drools
Especially the ladies with fake jewels, tonight breaking all the rules
Why it is finally...

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Categories: spleen, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aquamarine Alchemy
As the men of the great sea carry me
Assuring them of safe travel on water
Courage and serenity are given free
Am restless anxiety adjuster

Feel so soft...

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Categories: spleen, adventure, sea, sea, men,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member She Wears the Crown - Queen Jan Allison
A Tribute to Jan Allison.

Mirror,  tell me who is the rightful limerick queen
There is a poetess, the most humorous I've seen
She's the one called...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spleen, appreciation, poetess,
Form: Limerick
The Scar - Written In Collaboration By Lynn Marie and Victor Buhagiar
Are you happy with your work doctor?

Look at me when I talk to you.

I looked in the mirror you know.

Mirrors don't lie.

What you see is...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spleen, angel, anger, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs