Best Substitutes Poems
Below are the all-time best Substitutes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of substitutes poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017
So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...
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Categories:
substitutes, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
Empty WordsWords at the edges
Of your Tongue
Are not merely Words.
A Thought trying
Desperately to be expressed.
If hope lie in words
Is Hopelessness the absence?
No sound, no chirp, no...
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Categories:
substitutes, confusion, on writing and
Form:
Free verse
Designed For MoreTime substitutes childhood dreams
with towers of steel and glass.
But technology breeds greed,
and no one gets a free pass.
Hunger stalks reality,
armed with the pain that it...
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Categories:
substitutes, august, community, culture, feelings,
Form:
Quatrain
Medical FindingsThere was an old man, to the doctor he went
He needed advice, he needed to vent
He read that he mustn’t have too much to eat
Or...
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Categories:
substitutes, health, humorous, inspiration,
Form:
Sonnet
Garish Should BeGarish should be the undertone
so say the ones who hold the line
desiring only that mutes explain
the breadth of life beyond the pale
until the souls who...
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Categories:
substitutes, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Here To Find...for Stacey Haislop
A lady at a window writing,
measuring her words with strict precision.
She takes a sip of tea
as if to fuel her imagination.
Memories go drifting...
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Categories:
substitutes, writing,
Form:
Verse
Walking In Daddy's BootsI loved walking in daddy’s boots,
just to trample where he had been;
to track the path of prior roots
and then return...
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Categories:
substitutes, children, dad,
Form:
Quatern
BelieveWhen I was younger i was taught to believe in god
Now i wonder if i misunderstood, Whether it was all a mirage
Baptized in holy water...
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Categories:
substitutes, depression, faith, introspection, spoken
Form:
Free verse
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life...
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Categories:
substitutes, betrayal, ireland, political, rights,
Form:
Political Verse
StillI have developed a temporary dislike of the things that I’ve convinced myself have been keeping you away from me. Mere substitutes that admitted to...
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Categories:
substitutes, confusion, depression, life, loss,
Form:
Free verse
The Name Is JamesJames is my name with its historic meaning
An important king bore this name
Carrying it to its royal fame,
One reason why this name...
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Categories:
substitutes, peoplewords, me, me,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The Drowning Machine
"The Drowning Machine"
Pulled from my mouth
a string of raw gold to build a tower
built from one understanding
a united ziggurat of words sucked
backwards played before broken...
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Categories:
substitutes, dark, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
MoralityVIDEO/AUDIO on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat, click settings...
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Categories:
substitutes, analogy, introspection, motivation,
Form:
Verse
WomenWhere I come from
Women are morale formed
Symbol of sanity
In a world of insanity
Mother Nature in personified
Mother to old and young alike
Better half of a man...
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Categories:
substitutes, family, lovenature, men, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
substitutes, hope, life, love,
Form:
Terza Rima