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Best Surly Poems

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


Premium Member Unsettled Sea
While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the...

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Categories: surly, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Grading On the Curve
I’ve been told, I deserve so much,
for the work I've done, for the lives I touch.

I would like to say, my dear friend,
what I deserve,...

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Categories: surly, inspirational, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member So Much About Living She Has Learned Since
Grit in her eyes beaming fortitude of vibes
Powers her dash from one end to the other
Handing out drinks: brandy, whiskey, beer;
Serving high rollers and surly...

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Categories: surly, angst, courage, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fancy Dancer
As she leaps on pink and satin cloud,
Beauty is with her, like a shroud.
In sunny mist, a twilight stream,
She laughs and frolics as in a...

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Categories: surly, beautiful, dance, imagery, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: surly, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Christmas Time
Nightgowns on at 9:01
Adrenal induced delerium
Santa’s journey has surly begun
To our beds, we were a scurrying

Closed eyes, at 9:05
But sleep would not come easy
We’d twist...

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Categories: surly, childhood, christmas, night, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ocean Speaks
the ocean speaks a
language we all understand. . .
serene to surly


7-11-17...

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Categories: surly, change, nature, ocean,
Form: Haiku
I Shudder To Think
I SHUDDER TO  THINK 

I  shudder to think about the way 
Some  vegetables are  abused every day -
With physical  and...

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Categories: surly, funny
Form: Couplet
The Virgin
A surly old maid
had an urge to be laid
and bemoaned her virginal status
with life discontented
her plight she lamented:
"'tis not easy to live without coitus."

A scheme...

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Categories: surly, funny
Form: Rhyme
No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: surly, parody,
Form: Limerick
Dung On a Rung
Surly Sally slipped and lost a flip flop
at a hearty party in a bungalow with Billy.
while dancing and prancing to hip hop
whirling and twirling and...

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Categories: surly, funny, recovery from...,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Merry Minstrel of Mickleover
The Merry Minstrel of Mickleover

I strike this chord without a sword
For I am not so brave
Whence came a knight with armour bright
Who vowed princess to...

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Categories: surly, history,
Form: Rhyme
Indigenous Creatures of My Writing Desk
There is an antique writing desk
in my little study
handed-me-down
from generations of would-be
writers in my family

And there are ancient creatures
from days gone by
living in this old...

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Categories: surly, anxiety, feelings, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
My Aminus Brain
I am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.

I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.

My seductive charms can...

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Categories: surly, character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Visitor
I was sleeping, probably snoring.
  around three one morning,
Awakened by knock at my door.

 Well I sleep in the floor.

I wasn't sure it worthwhile,
So...

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Categories: surly, humor,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs