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Best Tarp Poems

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


Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: tarp, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dangerous Glory
This Aphrodite rose
slowly unfurls
pink ombre balms
of sun-kissed 
springfalls, 
as the luminous 
lake of tears
cascade in 
exotic wreaths 
of honey-soaked
velvety sepals, 
there succulent seeds
of zestful dawns...

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Categories: tarp, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Street
The dank petrichor of grainy night,
meters stand like gravestones, 
the obsidian avenue slick as a sapphire,
windowed granite rising in sharp cut shadows,
wind gusting, tumbleweed clouds...

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Categories: tarp, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Grape Harvest
The chartreuse pearls hung on the pregnant vine
as whispered jade of leaves in autumn breeze.
The necklaces of trellis did entwine
like clefs of absinthe notes in...

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Categories: tarp, autumn, color, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Pale Shelter
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Love, to you
nothing more than washed away graffiti, 
once dripping along the 
mismatched bricks of this worn facade
where tattoos mean forever . . .
even when...

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Categories: tarp, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Garden Dreams
Tufted white-tops
on pale beige staggered-stalks,
the coneflowers crowns 
dressed the perennial bed;
leaning precariously against
the conical mushroomesque birdbath.

Snow, soft and wet wrapped the grape arbor like ermine;
making...

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Categories: tarp, seasons
Form: Free verse
My Poems
My poems are not for leisure
They are guns 
Aim at imperial anatomy
Notes slipped to a teller’s eyes
For easy withdrawal
Of ancestral deposits
My poems are not for...

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Categories: tarp, hope, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hunger Preys
an old ripped tarp argues with the wind
the NO TRESPASSING sign trembles
an underdressed scare crow ‘crazy dances”
mocking a city dweller manically hailing a cab
the warmth...

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Categories: tarp, life, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skull King Around
Skeletal treetops rake a Wagnerian sky.
like fingertips, chasing Valkyrie’s,
through cirrus clouds;
conducting the winter wind,
across the cerulean blue tarp
of early evening.

Bare beds, a mass of fallen...

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Categories: tarp, death, depression, seasons, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Music In the Rain
I walked by the old cafe on Rue De Sienne and heard an angel playing harp 
a cherub an ethereal mome bewitching me and playing...

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Categories: tarp, angel, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
You Look Sideways and I Set Sail
You look sideways at me
I look straight on at you
You glance towards me
I stare at you
memorize the stiches of your coat
they are uneven
 it must...

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Categories: tarp, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shh Here He Comes
A dull-looking scuffed up ebony toolbox full of pure happiness,
Sat in the back of Charley’s old green Chevy pick-up truck,
Waiting for him to drink his...

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Categories: tarp, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Adjustments
"But there's one thing I know                   ...

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Categories: tarp, analogy, blue,
Form: Verse
Premium Member August Trance
Watching the clouds at dusk
   and the deer in flight. . .
      I wait for these beauties to...

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Categories: tarp, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sleigh Ride Memories
Pushing back the snow,
the barn door slowly opens
against the drifts.

Inside smells are rich and warm.
Hay and straw and animals mix 
sparking memories of a long...

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Categories: tarp, happiness, life, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things