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Best Strung Poems

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


Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

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Categories: strung, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Under the Stars
Under the Stars

Breathtaking
    poetic passions, 
         lavender skies
      ...

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Categories: strung, autumn, love, poetry, romance,
Form: Romanticism
This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: strung, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Flesh
Introducing: Casarah Nance & Poet Destroyer

Scars of empty promises are darkened by your kiss.
Torturous touches are meant to soothe my pain.
It is without gain, without...

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Categories: strung, adventure, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Epic
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: strung, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: strung, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and...

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Categories: strung, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas in Paradise
One year,  over the ocean, Santa veered  off course
His reindeer were battling a hurricane  force. 
As the sleigh went  spinning and spiraling around,
 an  island appeared far below on the ground,
dotted with palms...

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Categories: strung, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: strung, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
You'Re Worthy of Love
You're worthy of love

I see the scars, you're hiding deep within
they're not visible, upon your skin
you don't even know, how you could begin
to feel worthy...

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Categories: strung, abuse, addiction, child abuse,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Advice
Do not look to me with questioning eyes
For i do not possess the answers you seek 
i cannot taste the bitter sweetness on your tongue,
or...

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Categories: strung, change, drink, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Your Undying Legacy
My heart is so keen on you,
It leaves me cold, relentless, impossible
He fell into the love pools in my eyes,
The light you demand me to...

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Categories: strung, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Seasons of a Fruitful Tree
I love my little corner of the yard
when nearby Lilac Bush perfumes the air.
The human dwellers treat me with regard.
They sit behind their house and...

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Categories: strung, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Dream of Her Untouched Sea
"The Dream of Her Untouched Sea"



Caressing Her tidal pools
the floor of Her Oceans rise
Sunlight through the crystal canopy
shines on Her 
song of the siren mind
meeting...

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Categories: strung, ocean, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Not the Bird
I can see myself
Outside my window
I'm not the bird on the wire
But the pole on which the wire is strung
With a hundred other cables cut...

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Categories: strung, bird, mental illness, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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