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


Premium Member I Am But a Flag
I have caressed
in coffin draped hugs
those who defended me,
hung limply as taps
and tears flowed
across generations.
Known the thrill
of fireworks and jubilation
rose, full faced,
in sundrenched
wind starched glory.
Wept...

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Categories: staffed, america, today,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Weeping
Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf...

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Categories: staffed, racism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The World In 100 Years -Oh, Perish the Thought
The world in 100 years ... Oh, perish the thought
 
 
Former President, Ronald Dump,  who was cryogenically frozen following his assassination after winning...

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Categories: staffed, earth, humorous, moon, political,
Form: Narrative
The Witchtrain
The night of the living dead is coming…
Take heed and lock your doors
The witch trains blow the whistles
As they leave the devils jaws.

He strikes the...

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Categories: staffed, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
On Graduates In the Unemployment Line
Go out and get it we told them
And I have seen mothers wringing leaves for tears of tea
I have seen fathers striking stone
And cursing the...

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Categories: staffed, history, day,
Form: Free verse



Modern Day Heroes
You respond to the call twenty-four hours a day,
you lock up criminals, showing them crime doesn’t pay.
You make our communities and neighborhoods safer,
our chances to...

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Categories: staffed, dedication, inspirational, life, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Take On the Holocaust
 
Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . . 

Maybe some of my facts are not exactly right on,
maybe some...

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Categories: staffed, holocaust,
Form: Narrative
Love Came Down
Love Came Down


Of Royalty on Angels arms,
visit the maid in sweet embrace.
Silent, peace, nestled, warm,
prepared the way for lifelong grace.

Of Crystal night, moon filled sky
star...

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Categories: staffed, lovelight, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
No Matter the Floor You Pass Out On
No Matter The Floor You Pass Out On

I awake as any other madman slash poet.
Apon the floor  naked  pizza box for pillow a...

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Categories: staffed, funny, introspection, people, socialworld,
Form: Narrative
Sexual Tabloids
In the ultimate I ponder and resonates
Sporadic melancholy treading thoughts
Void pneumatic aspirations that perspire in nothingness
The peripheral space spurts erratic waves 
Spewed fantasy and ejaculates...

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Categories: staffed, social,
Form: I do not know?
Parting the Med
parting the Med
{for refugees and exiles}

the accounts passed down 
through the mouth and page
no refuge for the refugees
on the angry world's stage

staffed "saviors" Kalashnikovs
met on...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staffed, africa, conflict, discrimination, leaving,
Form: Quatrain
Longest Limerick I Ever Wrote
Had Been Blind To the Fact

He flew for a long way after taking wing,
To find a school so he could learn to sing;
When he did...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staffed, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
England
ENGLAND

England is a changing country
Not the place I left  thirty five years ago.
Oh yes, they still have Ann Hathaway’s Cottage,  
And  Buckingham...

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Categories: staffed, introspectionpeople, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tarnished Reflections
TARNISHED REFLECTIONS

At the age of twenty, after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, I took my first alcohol based drink.  It was a Tom...

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Categories: staffed, character, remember, thanksgiving, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Local
An English pub’s a perfect place
To sip an IPA.
Its cozy vibes can warm you
On a windy wintry day.

I do not live in England
But Manhattan’s where...

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Categories: staffed, drink, food,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things