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Best Tissue Poems

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


Premium Member An Empty Tissue Box
When pain hits hard, you might feel like your soul
is bleeding out, but there’s no blood to see.
Your body is the part that takes the...

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Categories: tissue, body, grief, pain,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: tissue, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Beautiful Mirror
-Escape of the mountain-

Do you care about my breast?
The new curve - countryside corset
The beauty of every summer dress 
Laying down, wearing out gravity 
Embracing...

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Categories: tissue, absence, allusion, cancer, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: tissue, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: tissue, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse



Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

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Categories: tissue, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Happy Birthday, Andrea
How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tissue, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Toilet Bowl Committee
Toilet Bowl Committee (aka: Uptown Hood)

A lavatory confinement
my$h!tdontstinkcomode.com
---
If you want to moderate this place, pick up the pace
From the mouth down to the @$$
Your so...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tissue, abuse, anger, angst, how
Form: Free verse
My Little Soldier Boy
Gary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.

You had just turned...

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Categories: tissue, child, death, remember, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Dreaming With Butterflies
FLUTTER BY                       ...

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Categories: tissue, butterfly, nature, nostalgia, seasons,
Form: Concrete
Crimson Rain
On a still...ancient horizon,
Massive dragon wings emerge,
To the atmospheric battlefield. 
Where two legendary beasts,
Clash for the love...of a dragoness.

A battle of mythic proportions,
Of two stonily...

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Categories: tissue, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teacher's Refining Fire
You were my least liked teacher,
                   ...

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Categories: tissue, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Teacher of Islam
Islam is non merciful
Islam is about repressive means
Islam has no heart
Over and over this chant shall start

For when we close our eyes
For when we judge...

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Categories: tissue, africa, allah, angst, bereavement,
Form: Verse
Premium Member We Are So Different
We are so different

I am smart, you are less so
I am a man, you are a woman
I am trump, you are poor
I am beautiful, you...

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Categories: tissue, arabic, child, forgiveness, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Poem
This will be the last stanza
The last stanza

The final syllable

I commemorate these wounds
to my Agnostic dreams

Because God kept telling me to believe in her

He kept...

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Categories: tissue, life, people, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs