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Best That Way Inclined Poems

Below are the all-time best That Way Inclined poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of that way inclined poems written by PoetrySoup members


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: that way inclined, brother, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Dryad's Tale
One day while passing by a tree, I heard a sigh.
It seemed the oak could speak; I felt my knees go weak,
for like a siren’s...

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Categories: that way inclined, day, fantasy, me, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: that way inclined, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Categories: that way inclined, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: that way inclined, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: that way inclined, holiday
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Flip Flop
This is my black Christmas
I have nothing left to lose
I’m a bare footed white walker with no shoes
It’s okay burly guy don’t cry
I’ve found my...

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Categories: that way inclined, angst, appreciation, christmas, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Our Friendship For Jan Allison
You were eyes for the man I was - blind 
And always without strain you were kind 
Love from the heart with no edit of mind 
What a...

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Categories: that way inclined, friendship, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: that way inclined, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: that way inclined, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: that way inclined, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: that way inclined, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ba Ba Bad Shepherd Boy
Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...

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Categories: that way inclined, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Be It Only By Dreams
With the onset of advancing age, so I find,        
A man grows weary of all mundane talk; ...

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Categories: that way inclined, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Hawk
On this mountaintop I sit
In solitude reclined –

For such a heightened lift
Soul-weary did I climb
The world foresworn – a bit
(My aching heart inclined)

A flowing form...

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Categories: that way inclined, bird, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things