Best Useful Poems
Below are the all-time best Useful poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of useful poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
useful, bird, hope, love,
Form:
Shape
The Shadow of MeIt was a long time ago, in another age
Where the shifting of the wind
Knew where I began
A place so far away,
Somewhere distant, in childhood...
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Categories:
useful, age, love, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
CourageCourage is understanding
and confronting reality...
Cowardliness wounds us with its lies,
...
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Categories:
useful, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Collateral DamageMara- Collateral damage
Hi, my name is Mara, I'm six years old, I have brown hair and brown eyes. People say I'm pretty like my mom,...
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Categories:
useful, character, courage, freedom, girl,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Brokenhis baby daughter
tossed aside like a rag doll
dad wanted a son
my mother told him
that I was ‘the next best thing’
at least she loved me!
always second...
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Categories:
useful, feelings, growing up, me,
Form:
Senryu
RegretI was the object of your affection,
Useful for a time;
Lost in the ritual of loving
The man I thought you were.
How much of me did I...
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Categories:
useful, loss, me, me,
Form:
Free verse
The World Around UsAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...
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Categories:
useful, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Minds Lost Are Minds FoundI’m losing my mind in a hurry!
Maybe, maybe, losing the mind is letting it find itself
or maybe, i'm just crazy
I keep running with anticipation,...
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Categories:
useful, confusion, health, imagination, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Soliloquy of a Puppetmaster 2020Now is the summer of our discontent
Made glorious opportunity for change
And all the clouds that lower on our land
In the bosom of the media rearranged
While...
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Categories:
useful, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Salt of the EarthEveryone will be salted with fire. “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among...
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Categories:
useful, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Randomlings 1-34Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...
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Categories:
useful, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form:
Verse
Actions Speak Louder Than WordsActions Speak Louder Than Words
Actions versus words
Actions speak louder
Louder is figurative
Louder is expressive
Figurative language is effective
Figurative does not truly speak
Effective is deeply important
Effective is walking...
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Categories:
useful, student, teacher, words,
Form:
List
The Potter and the ClayThe clay goes round and round, on the Potters wheel
With gentle touches, and pressures he creates what he feels
One is a bowl for eating soup,...
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Categories:
useful, change, character, conflict, god,
Form:
Narrative
The Excelling Value of AlgebraThe Excelling Value of Algebra
By Elton Camp
Of everything that I’ve studied on earth,
Algebra proved to have the most worth.
From it don’t be led astray.
Later, you...
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Categories:
useful, funny
Form:
Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and...
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Categories:
useful, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form:
Free verse