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Best Tapes Poems

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


Paper Dolls
she is everything you have seen in the movies
crayola hair
velvet dress
sugar in her veins
tears glued to her face
she fingerpaints the kitchen walls like a little...

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Categories: tapes, addiction, beautiful, emotions, fire,
Form: Free verse



The Immigration Officer Asked Me
"The Immigration Officer Asked Me."

I was asked where are you coming from?
I answered I ran away from the war in my
country.?

I was asked how many...

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Categories: tapes, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Truth You Don'T Want To Know
I am not a detective or a sleuth, 
but what I write about is only the truth.
You are not going to like what I have...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tapes, mystery, political
Form: Rhyme
Everyday American Irritations
GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING...

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Categories: tapes, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Blitz
The Attic
They're treasures to me, so I don't mind.
My Aunt Ellie in tow, right behind.
I climb the ladder, lift wooden door.
There are piles of stuff strewn...

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Categories: tapes, bereavement, christmas, holiday, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Can Or Can'T Relate
6/8/17


A world full of different colors and shapes
As well as apes
Locations that do or don't sell crepes
Vines with or without grapes
Houses with dark or light...

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Categories: tapes, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Will You Be My Quarantine
What’s all this
Nonsense
Inch tapes out
Everyone measuring distance
They call it
‘Social distancing’
Never heard
Of any such thing
After all
Man is gregarious 
He, she and us
Add to it
That one more...

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© Vijai Pant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tapes, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Take Me To Your Leader
UFOs have been sighted in Yorkshire,
a global hotspot it appears,
witnesses, mostly sober
to the moors and up over
have regularly seen them for years.
They all give them...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tapes, humor, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Best of Times
Splashed myself with Jovan musk..
to cover up sweat from the docks.
worked all day, back ached.,but I swear,
I'm comin' to see you bright-eyed one.

'Cause you were...

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Categories: tapes, 10th grade, dance, i
Form: Free verse
Giving Him the Bird
I see your bright colored plumes and your cocky arrogant beak 
you think you got a trumpet in my ear but oh ,you wait and...

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Categories: tapes, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse
What's Dead is Dead
After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales...

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Categories: tapes, poetry,
Form: Haibun
'technology and Human Relationship Poem'
Technology AND Human Relationship Poem


 It was on an April day When I was returning home,
 Earphones plugged to my ears, listening to Music in...

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© Kirupa Jtm  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tapes, change, encouraging, home, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth
Truth had me up against the ropes
and semi-concious without no boxing skills
Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil

Watchin the clock is...

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© Greg Pete  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tapes, urban, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Images
"Images"
The God that never was, puts one shoe on at a time
And spends four hours in the make-up room 
Putting on mascara and eye liner...

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Categories: tapes, life, social,
Form: Free verse
Things I Miss
Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim...

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Categories: tapes, adventure, beautiful, divorce, family,
Form: List

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