Best Unctuous Poems
Below are the all-time best Unctuous poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of unctuous poems written by PoetrySoup members
Churchyard At MidnightTwas darkness upon the quietly residing heath...
And deathly was the sullen red sandstone tower...
Standing gloomily inside the masons dry-stone walls
Amidst toppling granite slabs and the...
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Categories:
unctuous, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
AdmirationInto her eyes I enter, free of unctuous pretense, my daughter, so I can feel it all as she....
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Categories:
unctuous, childhood, daughter, love,
Form:
Free verse
Verity and VanityWritten: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the surface of the cultural tide,
Dissemination of erudition,...
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Categories:
unctuous, analogy, appreciation, character, vanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To BaconO thee I praise, and I sure ain’t fakin’
The fairest ether of carnal substance, our bacon!
That unctuous crunch so satisfying
I can already hear my fat...
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Categories:
unctuous, food, humor, love,
Form:
Couplet
Contemplations of An ExistentialistLife secretly offering fleeting moments of happiness… but the underlying sadness creeps through; the grief of human condition always seeps through from the unconscious. I...
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Categories:
unctuous, life, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Joyless JosephWordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
Essence easily evaporates,...
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Categories:
unctuous, crazy, creation, imagination, ,
Form:
Alliteration
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part NineteenThe Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Nineteen
“Not that I had not spied your tulip-lipped doting jasmine airs
Nor the way your wraith-like form take me...
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Categories:
unctuous, allegory,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Eyes Ever AfterTwo pair of Eyes, assigned as leads,
by the puissant heart! As per the role had needs.
The play comprised a script of emotion,
and the pair showed...
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Categories:
unctuous, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Doctor's Waiting RoomI arrived early for the appointment I had made many months ago,
And began the interminable wait to consult with the medico!
When I checked in, it...
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Categories:
unctuous, humorous, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
10-22-14: In the Cathedral of St Matthew the ApostleIn the beautiful, grand stillness
Of a place for the transcendent,
Like a lately-faded illness
Seems the ugliness of now,
And I dare not look behind...
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Categories:
unctuous, how i feel,
Form:
Lyric
Four Aces and a Black MoonThe bet had been bound ... and boldly called,
Right there on the cold castle grounds...
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Categories:
unctuous, adventure, conflict, games, moon,
Form:
Alliteration
A Glurmy Gleepcious GlorpI plurm and glorp with every breath
My existence defies and deifies death
I splurp and glomph amongst your days
Indistinguishable from mud and haze
I slig and slorg,...
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Categories:
unctuous, friendship, funny, imagination, on
Form:
ABC
The Words Came OutTHE WORDS CAME OUT ...
I am the mannequin metal hinges rusted articulations
The unfeeling solid dead wood that swirls with patterns
The unctuous rat flickering black eyed...
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Categories:
unctuous, anxiety, farewell, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
What I Did For ArtYou want to know its merits?
Very well, then. Daylight slants
deliciously across the boy's
inclined, thoughtful face.
His lace collar, crumpled,
houses valleys of...
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Categories:
unctuous, courage, culture, england, hero,
Form:
Free verse
Ropeburn GodzillaROPEBURN GODZILLA
i was looking for the brown bottle
she had imagined for me
even promised
leaf shadows
35 year old doughnuts
still
in the closet
i am reading this in a ...
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Categories:
unctuous, allegory
Form:
Dramatic Monologue