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Best Stapled Poems

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


Cold Beers and Voyeuristic Cannibalism
I’d like to pretend that my hands aren’t dirty 

from the soap of mental suppression,

that the callouses are from hard work,

and not from picking my...

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Categories: stapled, imagery, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Heaven's Answer
From the error of my ways 
in the blink of one's eyes 
falling backwards I called out 
Oh God please save me
Inside the crunch mercy...

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Categories: stapled, angel, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Verse
A Night Ride
One dark night takes me on a ride to an isolated hill where I inhale unpleasantness ..
Wide gleamy monstrous gate opens as the mighty wind...

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© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stapled, adventure, dark, horror, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burning
Islam Burning


In deep purple flame
Stapled to the cross
While the peasants yell below
Demon demon demon
Black flags rise
Hearts fail to beat
Humanity has lost this score
The axe swings...

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Categories: stapled, allah, dog, eulogy, evil,
Form: Light Verse
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath...

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Categories: stapled, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character,
Form: Didactic



Palesa
Quickly closed my eyes the minute I saw your greeting hand 
Fully body cured with earthly riches
My mouth stapled
And my body coma straight
As I get...

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Categories: stapled, beauty, crush, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Because I'M Tired of Metaphors, Etc
Summer boulder-boots wear my thoughts
Thoughts warmed by winter coat maligned in poison oak
With an indelicate left-breast
Pocket inscription stating the obvious
 “Boys Don’t Cry” 
(Simply put...

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Categories: stapled, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Olympic Antics - Xxxiii
Unquotable quotes: Olympic Antics – XXXIII

Why do Judo-kas bother to wear anything at all since all they do is to try their very best to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stapled, character, dedication, humorous, international,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Step Santa and Petting the Prefix
12/28/18
I just received a gift from my {step}mother, 
Only three days late this year.
It's a Santa Claus soap dispenser... with a twirl and a twist....

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Categories: stapled, abuse, holiday, mother,
Form: Free verse
Kissing Suzanne
My first love was called Sue Heather,
I thought I’d love her forever.
We kissed and came to grief:
With braces on her teeth,
She stapled my lips together....

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stapled, lovelove,
Form: Limerick
Dregs of Destiny
Their destiny, or whatever was left of it,
Was shown to them in black and white print.
Their property and earnings were neatly split
"You kids can't wait...

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Categories: stapled, family, sad, social, words,
Form: Alliteration
How Interesting Is a Two Curved Toucan
senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very...

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Categories: stapled, april, arabic, art, august,
Form: I do not know?
Crater, 01
how much can endure
when one is so unsure,
if refrain is coming or going 
if time is right side up 
or forthright down,
unhappiness begets a frown
plays...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stapled, art, beauty, conflict, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Dissociation
 I see a better world that I can use
Its far from you And inside me
The reality is too much to handle anymore
It's a place...

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Categories: stapled, adventure, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form: Ballad
The Human Skeleton
I am 5’6”, 43 pounds thick; a stick figure at war with gravity.
Balloon lungs, eyes of the sun, I walk at the edge of death,...

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Categories: stapled, beauty, celebration, emotions, freedom,
Form: Blank verse

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