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Best Woke Poems

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


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: woke, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



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: woke, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Quarantine of the Soul
-Quarantine of the Soul-


Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost 
Dark
You open...

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Categories: woke, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One April Day
One April day when spring was in the air,
I stepped outside so I might relish it.
I came upon a cherry tree so fair,
beneath its limbs...

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Categories: woke, april,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ungrateful Child
I woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.

I remember...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woke, anger, death, death of
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank
In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were...

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Categories: woke, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme
Nightmares and Razor Blades
I stare at my ceiling,
I start to wonder, why am I not healing?
Then it dawns on me,
The nightmare clip starts to roll.
I shake and shiver...

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Categories: woke, addiction, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
She Collected Sea Shells, I Collected Sand - Repost
She collected sea shells, I collected sand

She collected sea shells,
I collected sand
She searched for the perfect one
I reached down my hand

I carried a bucket
A basket...

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Categories: woke, beach, fun, love, sea,
Form: Rhyme
In Lieu of the Rodeo
Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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Categories: woke, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

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Categories: woke, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Escape
Escape
Introducing: Carl Fraser & Poet Destroyer

Oh Paint me a far away horizon
Across a tranquil azure sea,
Where sits a peaceful deserted island
Where no one lives but...

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Categories: woke, allusion, blessing, dream, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Man
Old man


he lived over there
in a house of dreams
		                ...

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Categories: woke, art, beautiful, child, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woke, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Transmutation
"we woke up early one morn, ego shorn
it felt as though we were in form reborn
nodes within stirred, boundaries blurred
our head and heart, with love...

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Categories: woke, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member A Drunk Drivers Guilt
I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our...

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Categories: woke, car, death, drink, family,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things