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Best Striped Poems

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


Premium Member September 1945
red rooftops appear to glow in rainy-day haze
lost in memories of pre-war bliss
     she looks up to watch them bleed

pain is...

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Categories: striped, longing, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stars and Those With Stripes
"America First",
is the worst.
Should not thinking of others,
be your thirst?
Those who are selfish,
end up being cursed!
Soon they'll be last,
instead of first.

Who among you,
prefers guns and...

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Categories: striped, black african american, class,
Form: Political Verse
The Billabong
There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do...

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Categories: striped, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: striped, boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Light a Candle
N ever again will the Tribes of Israel be the sacrificial lamb of man.
A nnealed in furnaces not in Olam HaEmet by the Almighty "the...

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Categories: striped, faith, history,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: striped, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Psycho Evaluation
Psycho Evaluation



    Physically unable to deal with all this stress
        a clinical Psychiatrist said that...

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Categories: striped, corruption, irony, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Luscious Mango
luscious fruit of the tropics
sphere-shaped, tapered, oval-faced
beneath the sun dripping yellow;
tangy as cocktail's zest for happy hour- kisses 
on lips that crave for its moist
sweet...

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Categories: striped, fruit,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Travelling Circus
The travelling circus arrived in town
I bought some tickets for my family
We got there early for the matinee
At the entrance was a scary sad clown.
...

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Categories: striped, dream, family, fear,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Animal Court
I relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy

A reader might find my story hard to believe
BUT!
At one time in my...

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Categories: striped, animals, funnytiger,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Lavender Soap
Mother would tuck into each dresser drawer,
                  ...

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Categories: striped, family, happinesseaster,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
I saw them in the sunlight hovering
above the fragrant bushes on our street.
So many different hues of them! It was inspiring.
Beautiful bright ballerinas drawn to...

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Categories: striped, butterfly,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Poolside Relaxation
On a striped deckchair
she reclines, cold drink in hand,
soaking up the sun.

Her tanned skin glistens.
Teasingly, her tongue explores
her full lower lip.

Dark blue sunglasses
subtly separate pretence
from...

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Categories: striped, imagery, sun,
Form: Choka
Premium Member With You In Mind
Walking in sailor fields amongst the nettles picking blackberries,
the brambles cut deep savage the mind. Yet the bowl to be filled
the jam to be boiled...

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Categories: striped, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Right Eye Removed
"The Right Eye Removed"



intuition guides a feline mind
to feel vain glorious 
in the poetry of dreams
stretching limits of awareness
velvet pawed 
a burnt orange 
bittersweet marmalade...

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Categories: striped, love,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs