Best Tanking Poems
Below are the all-time best Tanking poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tanking poems written by PoetrySoup members
Scomo's TankingDrongo coppers (sic)
Rise calm eyes sharp mind strong edge
Millions storm ANZAC !!!...
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Categories:
tanking, assonance, bullying, courage,
Form:
Tanka
America Sucks LessThis country’s sure got problems
Corruption, crime, and drugs.
And though we try to fix the world
The world just hates our guts.
But for all our woes and...
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Categories:
tanking, america, satire, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Get a Job - Soapbox PoetryGet a job! (Soapbox Poetry)
Reaching your hand in another man’s pocket
Taking your fill, still you’re screaming for more
Limits are reached due to faults...
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Categories:
tanking, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Japan, Land of Rising SonJapan, land of rising SUN
Faced Natures devastation
Tsunami, earthquake obliterated cities
Lost all but not hope, maturity, sanity
Collective harmony, community first attitude
No honking, no mad overtaking; only...
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Categories:
tanking, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
Take of TauniaTaught Iago to trance,
the pungent smell made me balance the stance,
raided the 'pulse' and sought no other deviant,
I was looted in the same way I...
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Categories:
tanking, color, confidence, creation, cry,
Form:
Free verse
Harry Connick, JuniorHarry Connick, Junior
Should have been there sooner
American Idol’s ratings had been tanking
But now on his humor they’re banking
*Written May 17, 2014...
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Categories:
tanking, fun,
Form:
Clerihew
Categories:
tanking, anger, child abuse, goodbye,
Form:
Epigram
Mind Over MilkshakesI was a simple picture of a person,
just a gulp of a guy.
She was not my first girl; she was the second.
It was a Dairy...
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Categories:
tanking, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Free Association Comprises RatiocinationFree association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously...
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Categories:
tanking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Geography of a PandemicThis is a tanka, because Canada is "tanking":
I
There are 3 countries that are really "North America" -
Canada, Us, and Mexico (Most forget Mexico is North!)
II
"Stainless...
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Categories:
tanking, america, analogy, hate, heartbroken,
Form:
Tanka
HometownThe only thing that still remains
Are memories and family names
Of girls you loved; the guys; your friends
These are the things that have no ends
The houses...
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Categories:
tanking, introspection, nostalgia, places, timefamily,
Form:
I do not know?
Dance In the ChaosThe world is on fire because of propaganda and liars
The world may not be flat but we're close to the edge
Just a little, just a...
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Categories:
tanking, america, betrayal, how i
Form:
Free verse
State of the Union
A shouting senile old fool tanking in the polls trying to save his ass.
It would take someone a helluva lot smarter than Joe to gaslight...
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Categories:
tanking, america, political,
Form:
Monoku
Earth's Lone CryI cried my heart out
For i am hurting, but no one pays attention
Ozone depletion my signature symptom
But they wouldn't let go
I cried...
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Categories:
tanking, blessing, feelings, future,
Form:
Ballad
Free Association Comprises RatiocinationFree association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously...
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Categories:
tanking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme