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Best Straightest Poems

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


Gay Is the Straightest Word
Gay is the straightest word
It takes a stand
Says I am different 
But I do not care
I love the one I love
I have a connection
I know...

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Categories: straightest, love, relationship, strength,
Form: Free verse



The Straightest Blade
trembling t'wards dawn's path today
anorexic pale horizons lay
starved of light, of hope
sans by your leave or come -
I cried, i sighed
'oh.. stay with me
please.. please.....

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© Emma Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightest, anxiety, confusion, senses,
Form: Blank verse
6-28-12
Watching myself from behind
Chasing words on the front
Dieing on the the rear
But my life is going along
Shots of death inside
Life escaped outside

I wonder where we...

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Categories: straightest, imaginationlife,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hunting Buddies
Christmas of my tenth year brought a four-ten shotgun.
No longer a tag-along kid
Assaulting the deep drifts struggling to keep up,
But a real hunting buddy.

First rule...

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Categories: straightest, adventure, childhood, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
You & Me
Let the me in you
Let the you in me
Be at the very heart
Be the very heart
Of the us in you
Of the us in me.

Let the...

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Categories: straightest, education, life, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Afrocentric
Africana, Serengeti kaleidoscopes
I painted with Zebra isotopes
 My ethnicity abounds from my
 afro follicles.
 Black fruit with pink middle 
 My garden cultivates Nubian yokes
forever...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightest, black african american, pride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Too Shall Pass
Life is filled
with ups and downs.
The straightest path 
will spin you around.
Your in the black.
Your in the red.
Things stop changing
because your dead.

The hands of time...

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Categories: straightest, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
The Sandcastle
Yes, the boy continued working
as people ran on by -
kicking up the sun-dried sand
which stung his little eye.

The beach was full of castles,
sand castles great...

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Categories: straightest, art, imagination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Ballad
Reflected In You
Its almost like I'm looking at myself in the mirror
Just in a different body that is
I mean we say the same things
Blurt the same numbers...

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Categories: straightest, planet,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member For the Birds
When someone says something off the wall
We say, “That’s for the birds,” but I wonder,
Do birds have an affinity for the ridiculous
This is something we...

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Categories: straightest, bird, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bowing To the East
Bowing to the East,
a sacred obligation,
comforting
and curious forehead down
to kiss this humble ground
of ego's straight supremacy

Including fat white men 
buttocks up
and yintegrity open to receive

To...

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Categories: straightest, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Story Tellers
There's some stories old men tell
Just so they can hear themselves
Always hold a certain ring
With their own brand of embellishing

Around the stove in the old...

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Categories: straightest, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are You Overboard, My Love
Why couldn't we be best friends my love
Our hearts afire, once matched  like a glove
Yet your eyes are now distant from me
Be best friends...

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Categories: straightest, best friend, hurt, lost
Form: Quatrain
Believe
i believe in rhyme and reason i trust my heart to blind my eyes
the rain can fall in every season the truist love never dies
karma...

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Categories: straightest, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Perversion
Because of perversion,
  the straightest path bends

Because of perversion,
  confusion befriends

Because of perversion,
  all smiles a frown

Because of perversion,
  up is...

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Categories: straightest, sin,
Form: Rhyme

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