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Best Teller Poems

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


Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: teller, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: teller, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging
A funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...

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Categories: teller, brother, funny,
Form: Rhyme
This Scar of Mine
There is a scar
                     ...

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Categories: teller, nostalgia,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Blind Painter
There is a part of me missing
There is a part of me that shall never be
Inside of this dark sad brooding mind
Is the painter who...

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Categories: teller, analogy, art, beautiful, dream,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: teller, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: teller, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
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: teller, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Mommy
MOMMY

OF WHAT ARE WE MADE INSIDE US
Well my dear Ruth
We are made up of protons,
And Neutrons,
And of course Atoms,
And Molecules.
But isn’t this conversation
A little premature
For...

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Categories: teller, girl, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bodie Lynchings
Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it...

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Categories: teller, america, death, horse, judgement,
Form: Narrative
No Chance
Friends we are  much  more I yern for us
to be.
I take to silence cause  its not him.
That I was ever ment to...

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Categories: teller, angst, introspection, love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Poet by Max Burchett
by Max Burchett

A writer, singer and songwriter,
A crooner, a teller of tales,
A dream maker, a soul shaker and captivator,
Hoping in verse and prose he prevails.


Photography...

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Categories: teller, poems, poetry, poets, self,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Thinking of you
Anne-Lise Andresen-  "Hugs"
Anisha Dutta- "Sweet Lady" 
Beata Agustin- "Spiritual" 
Bill Baker- "Friend from Texas" 
Brandy Nicole- "Whispers & Scribbles" 
Brian Sambourne- "One of my...

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Categories: teller, friend, in memoriam,
Form: List
The Minions
The Minions 
Minions Contest
Sponsor: Silent One


A versifier indeed, crowding the tiny city dwellers,
above the rest flying with the strongest propeller.

In day he disperses many tiny...

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Categories: teller, betrayal, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Strolling Through Evergreen Cemetery
I was strolling through Evergreen Cemetery the other day,
Glancing at epitaphs etched upon various stones along the way.
Some flowing verse was out of this world...

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Categories: teller, death, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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