Best Stricture Poems
Below are the all-time best Stricture poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stricture poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Yuletide PrayerGod rest ye merry gentleman
Thank the Lord that you are able
By devious manipulation to
Keep the turkey on the table;
All praise to those good bankers
Who...
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Categories:
stricture, humor, irony, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Life's CompositionEvery morn, I wake to a blank page -
A canvas, on which I paint
Today
I often revisit past illustrations;
Some statuesque,
and others with rips, tears, and...
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Categories:
stricture, introspection, life
Form:
Rhyme
The EmpressOnce I sat upon your throne
to visit a familiar chair
I am the Empress overthrown
I no longer rule or scare
My face is in the picture
since 1968
There...
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Categories:
stricture, mythology, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth Flowing FreeWrestling with time,
an illusion supreme
Its trinity empiric,
three masks to deceive
Past, future, and present,
our dreams undefined
Outside of their stricture,
new presence unrhymed
Rejecting convention,
short sighted and slight
Imprisoning our...
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Categories:
stricture, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
September AlliterationSweet September, see how splendidly she shines!
Subtlety submitting seasonal splendour, she
swamps summer’s splendiferous sights,
by stealthily shrouding splendid scenery,
with suffused sensuous, sybaritic, scenarios!
Sublimely serene, she...
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Categories:
stricture, giggle, september,
Form:
Alliteration
My Friend the Wise DoctorEu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.
U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.
Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain
My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as...
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Categories:
stricture, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Permaculture's Political Lexicon of GraceCompassion,
rooted in economic capacity and political experience
within a co-empathic nutritional environment;
like before you came out of Mom.
Nutrition,
rooted in deep listening, learning, and, giving-and-taking,
absorbing...
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Categories:
stricture, beauty, earth, education, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Serial SweetheartShe is watchful and ambitious in a nail biting fury
Another new victim another story
She pulls him in and caresses his mind
There in the darkest of...
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Categories:
stricture, death, fantasy, people
Form:
Couplet
Gardens GreyPardon my Gardens; they're withered and grey:
Unkempt and wild and quite defiled
Given my odd and reclusive ways:
Eccentric is my fashion style
Look at Life through special...
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Categories:
stricture, beauty, celebrity, character, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
Restricted LifeHuman life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny...
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Categories:
stricture, poems,
Form:
Free verse
What If DestinyWhat If Destiny...
Deeded Mine Singular Default Mode To...
Communicate (temporarily,
strictly and hypothetically)
merely allowing me to...
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Categories:
stricture, 12th grade, absence, betrayal,
Form:
Elegy
Obscured LensesFirst look, glasses as my eyes glance
From left to right I begin to read
Much as if I were in a trance
My education faulted for this...
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Categories:
stricture, dedication, education,
Form:
Sonnet
The Poet's BrushTo your achromatic canvas
fresh without a mark upon it,
I'll paint a crimson road of chance
and a bright tangerine bonnet.
With detail, I'll add two young girls,
coffee-skinned...
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Categories:
stricture, 11th grade, adventure, black
Form:
Quatrain
Coalition CocktailsDearest friend did I mention,
that I am not yet convinced about these coalition cocktails.
These cocktails of compromise can quickly cause confusion.
Traditional reliables, mixed with fresh...
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Categories:
stricture, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Only In His Arms Shall IWhen closed are mine eyes
I can see only those butterflies
Surrounding me and my prince
Ouch, a wake up back does wince!
A great man, all white in...
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Categories:
stricture, dance, how i feel,
Form:
Quatrain