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Best Totters Poems

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


Color Me a Father
A child with a crayon can color an imaginary world,
With dolls of mommies, daddies, boys and girls,
Full of horses, cowboys, cars and trains,
Can scratch them...

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Categories: totters, childhood, family, father, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: totters, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
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Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad...

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Categories: totters, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Beautiful Creation
Life can be such a fragile thing.
There is nothing that is for sure
When you think its figured out
Circumstance has no certain cure

It changes in a...

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Categories: totters, inspirational, introspection, life
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bitter Journey Home
Chewing garlic in the evening
	helps a sore throat.
Garlic will not kill a rat.
The sun kills,
	shining against the eye;
it is both enemy and friend.

There is enmity...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totters, age, death, memory,
Form: Free verse



The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims...

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Categories: totters, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of Thought
Matthew 6:22
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23But if...

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Categories: totters, introspection, light, body, light,
Form: Rhyme
An Acrostic "slap of the Glove".......
Goodness knows the greed involved
Unwilling to admit, unable to proceed
Life on this fragile rock totters
For we have never fouled the nest like this
 
Oceanic trauma,...

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© Jim David  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totters, nature, political, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Depths
I

The depth of steep, hellish ascent
darkness abides, the peak obscene.
cliffhanger of sweat, the creature bent
attempting to climb, make a dent.
No wind brushes away the hair...

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Categories: totters, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Barbershop Quartet
Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so

Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he...

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Categories: totters, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Headlong Plunge
 Draped in the darkness of the night
In a weather so dull and blight
Sad thoughts like a deadly shooter
Come out to bombard her outright

Shaking off...

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Categories: totters, angst, betrayal, conflict, woman,
Form: Rubaiyat
A Form of Rule
The nervous chatter
The haunted stares
The muted prayers
Their motherland
Totters all about

Democracy gone bad
Democracy a tool
Of elites to amass..
Power with a guise
Of legitimate rule..

A sad twist of...

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Categories: totters, africa, humanity, meaningful, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Not Another Again
Again the sun will rise and the moon will shine,
Again the night will shudder,again the night will whine.
Again the darkness will beseech, the sky will...

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Categories: totters, abuse, emotions, evil, lust,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Family Reunion
When I was a kid, the family reunion was the highlight of the year.
Aunts, uncles and dozens of cousins came from far and near,
To meet...

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Categories: totters, cousin, old, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Nobody Likes a Know It All Part 2 of 4
Nobody Likes A Know-It-All

(Or ... I Know What I Know)


(Prov. 1: 29* / Prov. 1: 22-33 / John 15: 19 / Matt. 7: 3-6 /...

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Categories: totters, bible, christian, education, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs