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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: viable, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise. 

An...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: viable, life,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me
Would you still love me ... perchance I was half a man?
     My carnal, physical core torn from me like ragged...

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Categories: viable, analogy, love, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be Courageous Above All
Be Courageous Above All in everything
You do and become involved in since the 
Inverse of doing this is often anathema
To leaning forward and getting things
Done...

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Categories: viable, allegory, appreciation, courage, devotion,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Betrayal of Innocence-A Tattered Flag
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Skies enameled with black satin silk
          like a flag that represented yesterday
    ...

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Categories: viable, betrayal, innocence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Ring Trilogy - the Poems
You Know Who You Are! 

I know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to...

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Categories: viable, hurt, jealousy, recovery from,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Chrysalis
You were my mind's cocoon ...

Oh, at first I ran, multi-legged, from the intensity of your intent,
  the fear of a love, transforming ......

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Categories: viable, analogy, change, metaphor, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
At the Bus Depot
AT   THE   BUS   DEPOT

Faces and suitcases with little rumbling wheels.
The seat is hard and littered with yesterday’s paper.
How can...

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Categories: viable, allegory,
Form: Verse
The Illusionist
A Magician never divulges his secrets 
So how he managed to break my heart while already broken
I’ll never know
It was not viable, 
Then again, any...

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Categories: viable, imagination, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Messages


"Messages"

Messages are delivered to us 
in the strangest of places, we resist 
like we are the longest hung revolution,
the biggest most viable important incarnation,
the loudest...

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Categories: viable, muse, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Virus
Very few could predict
virus would spread so fast,
verily cast on world
vicious shadow of death.
Virtual war is fought, 
victory will come with
viable new normal.

May 5, 2021
Syllable...

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Categories: viable, death, fear, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Building Tension
Written: February 15, 2024
                 ______________________________________

I ultimately rule over these...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: viable, analogy, anger, mystery, time,
Form: Rhyme
Woods and Trees
In late Spring when heros scream

A source of sophistication from faint misery
Inside the thwart hidden silence of the pivotal solace of my mind
With mind blowing...

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Categories: viable, adventure, angst, animals, art,
Form: Free verse
Christian Believer Hypocrisy
Christian Believer Hypocrisy

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis
Use of her religious belief is a mistake most gravest.
While denying same-sex marriage, she is cherry picking the bible
When she...

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Categories: viable, christian, faith, hate, judgement,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Mists 2
Dawn flings a face
All darkness flees;
Birth of new day

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That Old Man once thought:
"Poetry is not viable..."
Who can eat poems

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In our twilight years
Even time is suspended;
Marionettes...

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Categories: viable, blessing,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs