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


Too Good To Ever Last
Too good - to ever last    suggested bpm 80

Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the...

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Categories: suggested, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member On One Knee
if you wanted to dance with me
i mean really wanted to dance with me
then i would
i would dance with you

if you needed me to walk...

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Categories: suggested, celebration, for her, i
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: suggested, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
A Tribute To a Major Appliance
Sub-titled: What’s in YOUR Fridge?

Please allow me to introduce myself:
My name is Ms. Fridge A. Daire
I stand tall among my lesser cohorts
and MOST of them...

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Categories: suggested, funny, humorous, relationship,
Form: Personification
Think I Need a Man In My Life
Think I need a man in my life-
a dear writer-friend suggested.
So please dismiss and remiss,
prior I've requested.

Thinking, a man in my life,
could really make things...

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Categories: suggested, fun, funny, life, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: suggested, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Loved and Lost -
To love
Is to remember
The touch of your hand
Your voice
When you called me cariad

My mouth remembers your kiss
The feel of your lips 
Sensual touch of your...

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Categories: suggested, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: suggested, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Oops, It Was An Accident
Oops, It was an Accident

I accidentally let one loose
on a blind date with a guy named Bruce.
We went to the movies on that fateful day
happily...

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Categories: suggested, anxiety, hilarious, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going Bald
As biology goes, I'm surviving,
a few aches and pains and a cough
and I check every morning when in the bathroom
to see if my bits have...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suggested, anxiety, hair, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: suggested, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Famous Poets
The other day, I was visiting the home page at Poetry Soup
and noticed a picture of a guy named Willie Shakespeare
His poems are okay but...

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Categories: suggested, poets, tribute,
Form: Light Verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: suggested, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead
Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead

Under moldy soil, red moon overhead
lay millions of corpses, wars wasted dead
No bands playing, no sweet angels singing
only ghostly echoes,...

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Categories: suggested, art, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Age of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
The Age Of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
(a Sonnet duet)


Our summer love began in Gemini 
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did...

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Categories: suggested, art, heart, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs