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Best Torsos Poems

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


The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: torsos, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Upon the Edges Shadows Fall
blank-faced the page calls
each pounded pore of rice waits 
brush tips dance on pointed toe 
or fall like curtains
stark poser of questioned light
much more is...

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Categories: torsos, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By the Stream Beside the Meadow
On a grassy bank beside a trickling stream
I view her ebony locks of which I've dreamed

Naked she is bathing in translucent crystal clear
As I long...

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Categories: torsos, love, naturebody, love,
Form: Couplet
Autumn Arrival
Now,
   as the rain falls in tiny droplets on the ground
   and the breeze is wafting scents of petrichor,
  ...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torsos, autumn, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ancient Cambodian Dancer -
In that meteoric moment
she exhibited eternal qualities of wonderfully wrought womanhood,
calm,disciplined and candid,
adorned with few distinctions from the rest behind her
the loving leadership was projected...

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Categories: torsos, angst, integrity,
Form: Didactic



Murder On My Mind
When a rough day is behind me
And all the tension is still there
When rage is flowing through my veins
And I'm tearing out my hair
 
When...

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Categories: torsos, dark, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More Than Dinner Was Served
Knock knock as she opens her front door
It's her beau whom now stands before
With a bouquet of flowers
All different colors
For his girl whom he loves...

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Categories: torsos, dance, flower, giggle, girlfriend,
Form: Limerick
The Forgotten Voices
The date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared 
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing...

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Categories: torsos, conflict, courage, depression, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Valentine Wedding
No one asked her to dance at their Prom that night
It beggars belief in me, what's wrong with these guys
Her beauty is all I see,...

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Categories: torsos, beautiful, beauty, love, music,
Form: Quatrain
Body Parts
Need a fender?  A replacement hood?
J.D. Body Parts won't do you any good.
See, here you'll find ankles and feet in aisle 3.
Torsos on aisle...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torsos, business, funny, history, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Wild Inside To a Boiling Outside
Our naughty crafts in sex workshop
are all placed under a constant rewind.
Your accurate curves and warm planes
covered in moisture like a soul’s Vaseline
is an awesome...

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Categories: torsos, love, romance, romantic, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Summer Sizzle
While lying there ‘neath summer stars on blanket in the yard;
just you and I, the Moon and Mars, with Cygnus keeping guard.

I gaze into your...

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Categories: torsos, love, lust, night, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Death Row
morning breaks like a crack shot through bone
the needs are frightening that i must possess
this hunger in my womb

head out to trenches
crawling on concrete blood
tanks...

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© Shaun Hull  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torsos, courage, death, war,
Form: Free verse
Winter - a Hard Place
A damp, dank odour pervades the saturated forest; pungent. acrid;
The stench an assault on the human senses:
Working subtly, slowly permeating every pore until it compromises...

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Categories: torsos, animal, appreciation, bird, dedication,
Form: Free verse
My Neighbourhood
The road to my backyard is long and straight
Evergreen trees abound and provide welcome shade
Home to myriad birds, butterflies and the bees
Last summer their branches...

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Categories: torsos, loss, nature, memory, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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