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Best Splotch Poems

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


Neighbourhood Splotch
A rather young couple have
Moved in together
In the two up, two down
Across the street.
Not for them conventionality
Or conformity:
No wedding band offends
Her third finger, left hand
Nor,...

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Categories: splotch, conflict, funny, identity, urban,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Wedding Cake
It is an important cake that I had to bake with out a rake so that it would be 
real   It has a...

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© John Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splotch, art, family, food, time,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Shakespeare Has Risen
A conversation overheard between Shakespeare and his former muse.

"So many things hath turned to utter folly over the ages.
Hundreds of years since I've penned pages...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splotch, death, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
November 4th 2008
The people cast their ballots;
And hopes are very high;
But the looks upon the Christian man;
Shows some worry in their eyes.

 The donkey has majority.
 And...

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Categories: splotch, politicalpeople, people, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dawn
A splotch of orange
spills over East,
mixes with and washes away
night dark and moon yellow.
Golden quiet transmutes
to silver sound, and tousled sleep
awakes to fresh-combed day....

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Categories: splotch, life, nature,
Form: Free verse



The Crafting of Imagery
 ekphrasis 

Five glasses filled with brew but only two in kind;
the bread is toasted lightly, portioned just for four.
Although the background’s hazy, something rests...

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Categories: splotch, art, imagery, writing,
Form: Ekphrasis
Mum
Mum

A siren of Oogahs! fills her ears,
But the cream of smile and care splotch her face,
Tells you the loving tutelage she has for years,
Cuddling and...

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Categories: splotch, caregiving, joy, mother, mothers
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Ink Blot
The ink blot can BLINK 
Hurrah! TODAY I think

Now a SPLOTCH is in the sink
With water I did not drink

If I spot this BLOTCH I'll...

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Categories: splotch, happy, water,
Form: Rhyme
Bleeding Tears
Bleeding Tears

I would love to master the bait,
But my heart still crumbles with tears,
I thought I had wept all,
But your simple sound still sizzle straight...

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Categories: splotch, art, cute love, depression,
Form: Free verse
Cancer's Veil
Carcinoma, melanoma sick twins
Inside their innocuous hosts grin
For surface tension brings no chagrin
Another, common diagnosis will time lend
Healthy cell structures to amend
Immune systems with guile...

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Categories: splotch, angst, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portrait of Spot
PORTRAIT OF SPOT

mr. Picasso
we have a strange cat named spot.
spot is mainly white
save for this splotch on his nose, 
pure black and triangular

now some cats...

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Categories: splotch, animal,
Form: Tanka
Straight To Your Heart
Decadent perimeter a decorous 
tray doth betray
Polished cart a nubile mask doth 
display
From black, coiffed locks baited line 
doth sway
From slippery, glossed lips a sweet...

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Categories: splotch, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Penetrating
In this day and age, I want some recompense
I don't understand it, it jus' don't make sense
that we can write through our entire lives
with all...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splotch, confusion, introspection, on writing
Form: Quatrain
Solitude
I live in a barren wilderness.
Thoughts of those I miss are few.
Nothing but the midnight sky to watch.
For leaving them behind I have no bitterness.
Although...

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Categories: splotch, absence, anxiety, deep, lonely,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Nostalgia For Yesteryear of Boyhood
(originally composed approximately a half 
dozen plus years since this revision now, 
September 13th 2018 ~ 12:48 ante meridiem, 
which missive, I came across scrolling...

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Categories: splotch, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs