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Best Summation Poems

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


Summation
What you add up to may be less,
Than what’s inside and unseen, 
But your behaviour will determine, 
Happiness by where you've been. 

Our processes can...

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Categories: summation, celebration, friendship, humorous, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: summation, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
I Refuse To Count Sillybulls
There once was a poet who despaired
though blessed with a fair amount of flair
that he was way too thick
to master limericks
counting words an arduous affair...

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Categories: summation, light, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The United States of America
Our justice system is far from perfect, but it is what we’ve got
Just because you break the law, doesn’t mean you deserve to die or...

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Categories: summation, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry: Shadows Coming to Light
Garnering complete elucidation
  within the untrammeled confines
      of several exceptional poetic lines
       ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Repulsive Rays
Get ready cause here is the next pontification
In regards to my said, beloved’s infatuation
Hear me thee, here do be, the truth of the situation
Which once...

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Categories: summation, forgiveness, friendship, love, lust,
Form: Monorhyme
Imagination
Close your eyes and use your 
imigination
What if the world showed an 
indication 
that jesus was really satan
Itd be the biggest revelation
But what would happen...

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Categories: summation, how i feel
Form: Rhyme
Framed
FRAMED

In submitting my last résumé
Jessica Rabbit inspires me to say
Though some call me a cad 
I’m not really that bad
It’s just that I was drawn...

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Categories: summation, humor, philosophy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member "lol, For Christ's Sake" (A Blog)
(This is a Blog)
          How about a little humor, for we as human beings need it....

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Categories: summation, introspectionlost, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Those Slithering Serpents of World's Hidden Abyss
Those Slithering Serpents Of World's Hidden Abyss

Through pleasant meadows they slither and soft hiss
pushing down nubile flowers as they go
they of dark, giver of serpentine...

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Categories: summation, art, conflict, emotions, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Another Winter Star
***I am reposting this poem as I think it is my finest poetic creation.  I feel the imagery of the piece and its 'fabled'...

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Categories: summation, creation, god, hope, life,
Form: Classicism
The Lawyer
A lawyer who sought approbation
Had a penchant towards litigation
He would argue his case
With a smile on his face
Then win in his final summation...

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© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summation, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member She Came This Way
On a headstone in the ground, 
a life's summation can be found:
born and died and little more
marks the end with an underscore.

Before I die I'd...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summation, birth, death, family, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love's Magic
I don’t think it’s foolish,
Simple-minded, silly, whimsical,
Naïve, and/or childish
To believe that love is magical.

So-called experts offer
No scientific explanations
That any would prefer.
Love wordlessly defies summation.

You know...

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Categories: summation, life, love, magic, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
Sadly Truth and Reality Bites
If you or 1 wish to
live based on reality

Live in the real world you
awaken to every single morning

You then also sadly have to accept
these cold...

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Categories: summation, slam,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs