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Best Unwashed Poems

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


Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: unwashed, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Bit of Humour To Kick Start the Week
FRED THE PERV.

Kinky Fred stole knickers off the line
One summer night his haul totalled nine
His spree ended in tears
Got an extra ten years
When Judge Sue...

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Categories: unwashed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Big Welcome To Soup Creek
If you're passing by Soup Creek our peace loving town
Do pay us a visit but wear a big smile not a frown
Our town is open...

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Categories: unwashed, america, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Wrinkled Shadow
Most of the days as I buy vegetables
the old woman would move around
close to me like the winter tree
The leaves mostly robbed by the time
tangled...

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Categories: unwashed, beauty, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Limburger Cheese Poetess
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Sometimes I feel like a hunk of Limburger cheese!
Poets pass my poetry as if it had the great aroma 
of unwashed toes and knees.
.
These poets...

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Categories: unwashed, friend, humorous, poetess,
Form: Couplet



Mary Magdalene
One summer eve in Galilee
I stood before my open door;
to me it seemed just one more night--
like all the others gone before.
Someone would come and,...

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Categories: unwashed, christian, devotion, easter, faith,
Form: Narrative
Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim
A homeless man on a park bench
wore a tattered shirt bearing a stench.
He munched leftovers from garbage cans
with deep tanned face and unwashed hands.
He slept...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unwashed, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
An Indian Boy
That Indian boy, unwashed, in rags, and black,
(India is, as in Art we say Nobel Laureate; in Might they call it ‘Nuclear State’)
Walked by the...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unwashed, political, boy,
Form: Free verse
Here Lies She
Just see
How fearlessly
Sunshine is seated
On the  gravestone

And the caring breeze
Whispering to the loneliness
So absolute
Beneath the tombstone

A paleolithic stone
A meaningless silence
Guarding utterly alone
The desiccating non-existence

Here...

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Categories: unwashed, death, grave, green, life,
Form: Free verse
Queen of My Heart Part 1
The queen of my heart lies here in state today, and my heart throbs,
Breaking like the darkness of any day, when she rose from her...

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Categories: unwashed, deathheart, thanksgiving, heart, may,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member He Was Just a Little Boy
I was born unto this world
A little boy called James
I was just like all the rest
Who in the playground played normal games

I knew my life...

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Categories: unwashed, childhood, hope, life, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Des Nuits D Amour
Des Nuits d'Amour
 

A fine tablecloth, Lenox china,
sterling dinner ware.
Tall, elegant candles in shiny
golden candelabras.
Un chantes, d' amour fill the 
starry night that I can...

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Categories: unwashed, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bio Modified-Solitary Scribbler
Solitary
Cloud watcher, tea drinker, dog walker, cat napper
I love summer twilight, dawn fog, and banana cream pie
I believe hype is trite, compliments are contagious, and...

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Categories: unwashed, life, philosophy,
Form: Bio
Birth of Rebellion
He was young, small, perhaps malnourished
Looking out from deep set eyes, rimmed with neglect
I could see, he wanted ...
To know why?
To know what? ... I...

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Categories: unwashed, child, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Any Christmas
'twas  the night before any Christmas...

And all over our any town,
Lonely seniors tried so hard to forget,
What life was like in a land long ago.
When...

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Categories: unwashed, age, angst, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things