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


The Butterfly
Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...

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Categories: vetted, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse



Divine Beauty
I stand like an inverted portrait on your wall
Bollixed Like a lost wallet in a mall
I remained Glued to you all day and night
Like a...

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Categories: vetted, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Same Persona

Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade

Dark keystroke mood, 
shallow indigo indifference shown
Another...

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Categories: vetted, humorous, imagery, psychological, satire,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Good Home Wanted
Are there any nice ladies out there
Who'll take on a nice guy like me
I'm fully trained good with children
And flea free.

Loves dining walks in the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vetted, desire, hilarious, howl, humor,
Form: Free verse
Pushy Parenting
You create them
You give birth to them
You nurture them
You raise them
All the while seeking to rearrange them
For you insist on always owning them

Kids are forever
Children...

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Categories: vetted, abuse, betrayal, children, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet

Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry...

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Categories: vetted, fun, humor, parody, political,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Mister Quick Fix
They call me Mr. Quick Fix.
I’m everywhere, in every school.
Over 400,000 of me in classrooms across the country. 
Yet there’s minimal data on my effectiveness.
For...

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Categories: vetted, education,
Form: Free verse
Ad Absurdum
This vetted and fully fettered minute 
 has been supplied by Time-Ex
 - Even before you know it, it's gone

This beautiful garden escape,
 sponsored by...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vetted, business, confusion, irony,
Form: List
In a Darkened Room
In a darkened room
Where movement is
But heard or felt
Contact incidental
Sounds without shape
See only with our minds

In a darkened room
All are the same
Bodies without bias
Opinions vetted
Ideas...

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Categories: vetted, culture, discrimination, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Refugees Identity
A real dilemma faces us, don't think it's going away
refugees, "not vetted ones", will soon be here to stay
They're coming to America, Obamas plan is...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vetted, america, conflict, patriotic, political,
Form: Rhyme
Terrible Trump Or Trump the Crook
Terrible Trump or Trump the Crook

Answers to questions asked were a contrast
Which we always would like to lambaste
Reasons for answers we presented in disguise
Knowing they...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vetted, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Public Policies V Supremacist Comb-Overs
Public policies are program designs 
with regenerative health and safety vetted practices,
rooted in evidence of positive outcomes
and usually supported by some form of systematic theory
about...

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Categories: vetted, anger, fear, political, power,
Form: Political Verse
Argh No More Medicare
ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!

A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing...

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Categories: vetted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Talk Therapy As Fulcrum To Leverage Psychological Ills
Oh...and hello
to you, some hours past, I
returned from counseling,
(hence this boy yent -
     albeit beastie boy 
    ...

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Categories: vetted, atheist, december, desire, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Here They Come
The welcome "Mat" is out again
Young Men of "Fighting Age"
Invited by our President
against Americas rage

How could he do this to our land?
he really has no...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vetted, america, conflict, patriotic, people,
Form: Rhyme

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