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Best Verbose Poems

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


Premium Member Penning In Consummate Rhyme
Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse.
Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verbose, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Clouds Are the Personality of the Sky
Image: Cloud Fantasy, by Susan Lawrence

On spring's green carpet I repose, revitalizing the soul
passing slow minutes pondering the sky

The lake whispers a morning meditation
as memories...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verbose, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Writing Day
Today is a glorious writing day!
There's a pop, a sizzle, a sassy flow
Words are clamoring to come out and play

Golden bubbles of joy I can't...

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Categories: verbose, appreciation, happy, imagination, poetry,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...

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Categories: verbose, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member You Think Me Silly- a Rant
You think me silly and verbose
When love is on my mind…
Fickle fickle full of fluff
Love sick, crazy, blind

Deviant...defiant 
Sexually overcharged
Big picture oblivious
And from your life...

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Categories: verbose, identity, introspection,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Verbous and Obscure
simply blither
simply obscure
obscure lingo
obscure form
form of creation
form the phrase
phrase the question
phrase for the play
play on your knees
play in the yards
yards of meter
yards of counted
counted on...

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Categories: verbose, allusion,
Form: Blitz
Stained Love
Emotional me
is out from my verbose head
like a winter flower with
petals, so much like
hankies of a sleepless god,
to wave in such elegance
my charm over you,
again...

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Categories: verbose, lost love, love, sympathy
Form: Choka
Well Burnt Poetry
"Poetry is just the ash"

voices clearly purged though

 boldness of inky ash laden passages,

         echoing that which...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verbose, allegory, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin
"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the...

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Categories: verbose, courage, muse, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buzzards and Flamingos
When winter months become morose
And everything around is blue and froze
Gets disheartening even for the eskimos
Their morale starts to dwindle and decompose

They tread most lightly...

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Categories: verbose, fantasy, sun, travel, uplifting,
Form: Monorhyme
Writer's Block
Every word, sentence and paragraph has three main components.  Each one has a beginning, a middle, and an ending.  On All Poetry there...

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Categories: verbose, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Abc Poem For Fun Ii
An awful aardvark ate anchovies against all advice.
Besides belching beyond belief, he bit bitter banana boats.
Charlie Chimp cackled curiously, convinced
Delicious delectable desserts did damage.
 
Enormous...

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Categories: verbose, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Waves of Tranquility
~ The Universe Spins Round ~

   Joy and Light
     Shining Bright
   Waves of Tranquility
   ...

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Categories: verbose, moon, ocean, poets, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Little Green Lizard
Today I caught a little green lizard
He was the best one I have ever seen.
I caught him in my lizard-catching net,
He was poised, confident, polite...

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Categories: verbose, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Way of Words
The Way of Words

In late night hour, I do not sleep
my mind’s a haunt of words that weep
a wanton wish to just breathe air
on printed...

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Categories: verbose, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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