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Best Tucked Poems

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


Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
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Categories: tucked, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: tucked, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nana's Hands
Through the years they worked their spells
     From drawers and cupboards, taking things
       That through...

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Categories: tucked, appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgive My Silence
Dear December, 
Forgive my silence, 
I’m still bleeding from 
         the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes 
from...

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Categories: tucked, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
I Slipped On a Tear Drop
I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tucked, death, sister, suicide,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tucked, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tucked, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: tucked, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: tucked, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Nook and a Storybook
Oh, give me a nook and a storybook
there at my mother’s knee.
Or tucked in bed, a pillow at my head
as father reads to me.

To hear...

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Categories: tucked, books, cute, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Frozen-A Collaboration With Shane Cooper
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.

The howling wind that claws at life, 
The forest shrouded in endless white.

Skeletal ice hangs...

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Categories: tucked, autumn, halloween, winter,
Form: Couplet
Crushed
Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying ...

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Categories: tucked, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today's Dreams - Tomorrow's Find
If life were but a simple chart
laid out for us to follow,
the lovely dreams that fill each heart,
would never see tomorrow.

Oh, hidden dreams so tucked...

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Categories: tucked, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gray Mournings
Lace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve
Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse
Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve
At times when it seems...

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Categories: tucked, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member THE LONG GOODBYE

They sit in silence at the table
Eating their evening meal
He gently wipes the food from her face
This life they now live still feels so surreal

She...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tucked, age, change, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs