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Best Straight Line Poems

Below are the all-time best Straight Line poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of straight line poems written by PoetrySoup members


Arctic Seasoned Disguise
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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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Categories: straight line, good night,
Form: Free verse



Existential Reprise
Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Categories: straight line, philosophyme, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tree
A Tree

I’m a tree lining a country road
Along with hundreds of other
Trees in the direction of a verdant
Forest—full of scenic wonder and 
Teaming with life.

All...

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Categories: straight line, creation, god, imagery, journey,
Form: Narrative
I Dreamt Last Night of You and Me
I dreamt last night of you and me,
your lips so soft I kissed
We floated on a silken cloud,
drew rainbows on the mist

Then counted daisies in...

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Categories: straight line, beauty, dream, love, ,
Form: Rhyme
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight line, earth, moon, sun,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Night I Danced Upon the Sea
I had a dream that I was dancing on the waves in the ocean.
I was wearing a gilded dress from Neptune's treasure chest.
I danced, I...

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Categories: straight line, dance, dream, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
As Solitude Rains
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As the sunset of life beckons me
in marmalade farewells, orange sherbet adieus,
I stroll in uneven footsteps,
not sure of the bridges I crossed
or those burned in...

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Categories: straight line, loneliness, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweet but Psycho
She is sweet but psycho:
demons in her mind run wild at night,
refusing to let her see beyond grey circles,
that left her spiraling in panic
through perpetual...

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Categories: straight line, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
Playground of Pain
Sliding 
         down  
            ...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight line, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ants
ANTS ON A HILL

A little way of tiny life,
insects which are not easy to sight.
Follow me, I'll follow you.
Easy to spot in daylight
Sticking together without...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight line, funny, visionaryme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dans L'Heure Bleue Deux
(Must be read, while listening to the music link embedded in this poem, for without the music, the magic is missing).

W. E. Soundtrack- Abel Korzeniowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxO1csWNKmg



"dans...

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Categories: straight line, dance, imagery, loneliness, longing,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Small Addictions
“Small Addictions” 

bit by bit 
the hunger begins,
the time when everyone,
it would seem, is giving in
to those small addictions

inevitably they become
your sole purpose for living,
your...

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Categories: straight line, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Walled Garden
a bench with ornate arms and scrolling
bathed in shards of early light
inside four walls of climbing roses
grown entwined and trained to height.

within the silence of...

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Categories: straight line, garden, life, metaphor, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member But He's Not Shopping
It wasn't his first choice
To put all his stuff 
In the shopping cart
he found 
behind the Walmart 
He didn't even care 
about the wonky wheel
Somehow...

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Categories: straight line, conflict, education, giving, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Among the Single-Digit Numbers
Unlike the number one which stands as one straight line,
the number I am thinking of supports three other lines on top of it,
and these three...

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Categories: straight line, math,
Form: Free verse

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