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Best Trough Poems

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


The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: trough, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Devil Made Me Do It
It had been a long night, an hour drive just to be with my sister. One must stay in touch with family; it’s the right...

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Categories: trough, anger, feelings, relationship,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Jab
The Jab

I am somewhat disenchanted by what I’ve seen and read
Antivaxxers believe the lie that soon the vaccinated will be dead
That our leaders are out...

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Categories: trough, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oops - Please Join In the Collaboration
Sue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!

05~24~17

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: trough, baby, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Waves
I am getting tired of the tidal waves
That bring me to shore,
Spit me out and drag me in once more.
I am tired of the crest...

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Categories: trough, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hey, That's My Money
Well, I see that Congress is proposin' another trillion dollar spree!
Those inept buffoons must think money grows upon a tree!
The treasury is crankin' out bales...

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Categories: trough, funny, political, money,
Form: Rhyme
Big Red Bellied Black Snake
Dad had threatened for some time, to reclaim the land behind the shed,
where rubbish over many years, had stockpiled but now instead
of being easy to...

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Categories: trough, family, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paint Us As We Are
Thinking of you I’m painting of love
Ascribing endearing brushstrokes
Ambivalent of my reach to inform
As I adumbrate upon soul’s canvas

Come build this portrait with me
Emblazon those...

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Categories: trough, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Vampish Way
In a vampish way, the moon erupts from the sea 
pirouetting across white cap and trough valley
through an impassioned performance of love set free
	in a...

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Categories: trough, environment, god, moon, night,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Black Rain
~BLACK RAIN~

Another rainy stormy night,
nothing will ever feel the same.
Thunder makes me fear with fright,
Theirs no way to call your name.
To be alone is no...

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Categories: trough, betrayal, break up, dark,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from...

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Categories: trough, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive.
A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the...

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Categories: trough, memory,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Rumored Rumors
Round and round the rumors go
As rumors often do
And each one adds a juicy bit
Of gossip about you

Reputations crumble down
And evil ones rejoice,
but I am...

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Categories: trough, community,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
The summer sun was high. The heat was oppressive.
The whalebone corset dug into the body's tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane
of...

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Categories: trough, baby, children, horse, me,
Form: Sestina
This Silly Thing Called Love
Craze comes out of barrel of joy,
Joy, what makes you behave coy,
Coyness, a thing that would get a toy
From the soul, hands of a smart...

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Categories: trough, depression, inspirational, life, lost
Form: Didactic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things