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Best Windup Poems

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


Premium Member Dragonfly
 Dragonfly, shiny
Windup toy, in flight, you dance
Among the cattails....

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Categories: windup, animal, appreciation, beautiful, earth,
Form: Haiku



Suicide and Scars
Looking high up in the sky 
I stand still in my balcony 
Thinking and about to cry 
Filthy thoughts are all that fathom me 

I...

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Categories: windup, 10th grade, anxiety, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Megan's Hit - the Baseball Sonnet
MEGANS HIT - the Baseball Sonnet
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windup, baseball, childhood, children, family,
Form: Sonnet
Crack of the Bat
Bat, ball, and glove, a sacred rite of spring
Timeless afternoons of joy shared by all
Everyone gets a chance to give a swing
To meet the challenge:...

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Categories: windup, baseball, sports, spring,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Megan's Hit
MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windup, adventure, baseball, child, childhood,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Megan's Hit
MEGANS HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windup, baseball, girl, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Megan's Hit
MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windup, baseball, child, children, girl,
Form: Sonnet
The Soldier Guard At the Tomb
I was silently watching the two Mary’s sigh and cry, 
When the earthquake hit and I just wanted to cover, 
The ground nearly parted and...

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Categories: windup, easter, faith, happiness, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Riding On the Coattails of a Pebble
The universe revolves around patterns and numbers.
Like an insomniac knowing not the meaning of the word slumber.
To say it's a big place would be a...

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Categories: windup, imagination, introspection, philosophy, universe,
Form: Prose Poetry
Weebles Wobble
Weebles wobble
   but they do fall down.

Once without windup whimsy weebles wobble writhing in wistful wiggly wattles,
they bubble, bobble, boggle, bottle and boondoggle...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windup, children, word play,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member My Hero
It was slightly overcast, that day in April.  The crowd was cheering.  They always 
cheered for him.  He was over age, over...

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Categories: windup, sportsme, old, me, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Unborn Song
The robin's egg rolled far away from haven tree.
A wee devil's hole in its side.
I took a one eyed peak...nothing left inside.

What to do with...

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Categories: windup, bird,
Form: Didactic
Mens Mentality
(feelings)

They say Beauty is skin deep. They lied.
Then why are they the first to whine.
They say they like girl's with small boobs.they lied.
Then why do...

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Categories: windup, community, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Mistakes
(fact)

The one thing I miss I wish I knew we're they were
I made a big mistake for those were my treasures indeed.
It's hard not having...

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Categories: windup, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Waking


“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background...

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Categories: windup, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things