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Best Variant Poems

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


Premium Member The Whispers of Diamonds and Moonstone
The whispers of diamonds and moonstone,
Starlight’s infusion of butterfly wings.
Flutter of lady’s eyelashes in Spring.
Lullaby murmuring - Jane’s not alone.

Sweet puff of air, rustle of...

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Categories: variant, imagery, love,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member A Lament For Humanity
Where to go, when your heart is torn in two?
When the sky is dark and very far from blue...
When fear runs all nations totally blind.
By...

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Categories: variant, corruption, dark, history, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Written When Most Are Proud Cyborgs
In pleasantries, orchestrated on our screens,
We live the lives of many men and women,
As if sex could be! We grow, composed of well-cooked pablum
Eaten between...

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Categories: variant, philosophy, political, science fiction,
Form: Verse
Archy
Oligarchy - From the Greek, olígos, meaning few,
	hence, those guys over there, with their 
	hands in their garments; They say they'll
	tell everyone what needs to...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variant, introspection, people, society, world,
Form: List
Premium Member Covid Update
(This poem is political satire; 
don't read if you think you may 
be offended. No truth in any of it, 
considered by many to be...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variant, humorous, perspective, political, social,
Form: Prose



If Shoelaces Sang Little Rich Town Blues
Not in tea leaves, in shoelaces tie existence--their harsh and meshing material
bound, tethered, undone with a gentle pull. 
 
The bunny ears
and clumsy fingers bouncing...

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© Collin Lam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variant, home, old, lost, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is a Dedicated Verse- This Is the Story of Poetess Jan Allison--
This is the Story of Poetess Jan Allison--

This is a dedicated verse,
About a woman whose a poetess;
She said her name is Jan; 
And…
Jan is gracious,...

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Categories: variant, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Only Star For Me
all my deepest thoughts, all my inward reflections 
                ...

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Categories: variant, star, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn, O Autumn
Autumn, O Autumn, I have always loved you.
Please forgive me if I've not told you so.
From childhood, you have been most special.
Back then, you signaled...

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Categories: variant, autumn,
Form: Personification
Our Ship of Life
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side 
randomly dictating its capricious ways 
lacking logic the tossing grips us...

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Categories: variant, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Life is a Song
"Life is a song," I find it intriguing,
how often the roads we journey upon 
allude to lyrics like variant moods of songs.
Some days I endeavor...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variant, life, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once In a Blue Moon
Once in a blue moon, in the circuit of the cryptic sky appears the transcendental fusion,
when the acquiescence of the sky emerges to display two...

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Categories: variant, assonance, beautiful, beauty, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
I.

Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
He or she, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding...

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Categories: variant, adventure, beauty, earth, earth
Form: Ode
A Love's Dialogue
Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away...

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Categories: variant, allusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Pizza - Listing Makes - a Robust Treat
PIZZA- LISTING MAKES - A ROBUST TREAT

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Categories: variant, desire, dream, feelings, food,
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs