Best Tallying Poems
Below are the all-time best Tallying poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tallying poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Grand American TraditionVoting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner,
purpose achieved,
garnering my three by five inch...
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Categories:
tallying, poetry, political,
Form:
Free verse
Thoughts On Why I Considered a Peeled Orange Painted 206 Years AgoWhen the frustration with self and poetry
can be described as the perfect spiral attempt of the peeling of an orange
Investing so much time into...
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Categories:
tallying, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Eternal FlowEver flowing are the sands, slipping through our fingers
Moments form unbreakable chains
No fountain will cause them to linger
Hours spent tallying every grain
Will leave you desolate,...
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Categories:
tallying, time
Form:
Sonnet
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the...
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Categories:
tallying, death, fantasy, girl, magic,
Form:
Free verse
Pocket Full of StonesBelts, switches, bricks, and near misses
Broken boys starring as established men
Police whistles, leather shoes clamouring
down city alleyways slick as a polished floor.
White clubs swing, black...
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Categories:
tallying, culture, humorous, introspection, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Categories:
tallying, love, seasons, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
The SupervisorI'm in charge of everything.
It's my responsibility,
To keep control of everything,
Maintaining the tranquility,
Of everything and everyone,
And see that all runs well;
For this workplace is my...
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Categories:
tallying, on work and working,
Form:
Quatrain
Birthmarks- An Evidence of ReincarnationI fully remember my earlier life completely as a man
People of my village used to call me Phony
Who was killed with a shot gun fired...
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Categories:
tallying, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
The LoverIt was a sultry summer day,
The air lay thick and still.
The leaves hung flaccid on the trees,
As if slumbering in a deep sleep.
No birds were...
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Categories:
tallying, allegory, angst, depression, inspirational,
Form:
Quatrain
Sign of the TimesSinister snarling swindling scandalous scoundrels secretly slither shamelessly
Implicitly interrogated ‘bout innermost insidious illegitimate impertinences
Ghastly Grotesque grimacing gumption gorging gruesome gimmicky gossip
Netherworld’s nauseating narcissistic nefarious nature...
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Categories:
tallying, corruption, dark, humanity, society,
Form:
Acrostic
Has Anybody Seen the Enzymes
Sugar is so sweet!
Pale light shines through the liquid
Sweet as it can be!
...
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Categories:
tallying, health, life, light, light,
Form:
Couplet
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part1The ammunition greased casings pepper skull and cross lovely bones,
lightening speedily deals mortal blow persons unaware,
the final minutes/seconds...
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Categories:
tallying, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
On the Origin of LifeMan has mused over life’s origin for ages.
The thoughts and treatises of the sages,
filling tall tomes tallying thousands of pages,
tell of evolution in stages over...
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Categories:
tallying, christian, creation, faith, god,
Form:
Rhyme
HeartbeatAll hail thy – sweet – small – courtesies of life.
For smooth do they make the road of it.
Grace and beauty – they cut so...
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Categories:
tallying, growth, love, mystery, together,
Form:
Free verse
Great Expectations
great expectations
anticipated in the
poetic heart
Havisham delivered
all and more for love,
a separate unseen thief,
tore the others’ worlds apart
webs like ectoplasm
from underneath a...
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Categories:
tallying, dark, muse, satire,
Form:
Free verse