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Best Straight Up Poems

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


Premium Member Touch
"TOUCH"

I want to touch your life
and leave a mark ...
... a deep impression ...
So you will think of me
and of my smile ...
... my sweet...

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Categories: straight up, love, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: straight up, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

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Categories: straight up, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

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Categories: straight up, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Yellow Shoes In the Darkness
Walking through the land of shadows 
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues

The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...

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Categories: straight up, me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: straight up, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: straight up, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: straight up, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TRUE KINDNESS
I was taught the true meaning of kindness
From the very best
That kindness comes in all shapes and forms
Has substance pure and honest

Kindness is a blessing
Both...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight up, blessing, character, feelings, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Joy Killing Poet
**Back smile/smile Back **

With your heads way up your :]ssa[: 
You will never accomplish the win
I got shots that will protect me from your rabid...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight up, adventure, deep, hate, irony,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight up, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prejudice
I hate 
your brownness 
your whiteness, 
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness 
 
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...

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Categories: straight up, character, prejudice,
Form: Personification
Premium Member We the People
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists...

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Categories: straight up, discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Jan Allison Has a Fan
JAN HAS A FAN


Jan Has no Tan

I once saw a gal called Jan
So sexy she made me ran
Straight to the vicar
Said marry us quicker
Whilst she...

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Categories: straight up, beautiful, character, dedication, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Always Mothers Day
I have borrowed  the first line of this piece from the"unknown scribe" , which I 
read many years ago.... The rest is for ALL...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight up, funny, mother, thank you,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs