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Best Yanking Poems

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


Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: yanking, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Fairy Ring and Dragon
Dragon found a Fairy Ring and quickly jumped inside! Heaven Forbid!
Dancing round and round, he suddenly disappeared. Yes! He surely did!
As he disappeared I knew...

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Categories: yanking, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Marion's Return
As Marion trod the old familiar path
leading to the river of her childhood,
she viewed the willow tree across the river
and recalled with clarity
the event that...

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Categories: yanking, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dichotomy
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were...

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Categories: yanking, analogy, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keep An Open Mind
Poems are just about everywhere
If you keep an open mind
So many things can prompt a verse
Just seek and ye shall find

Sometimes everyday happenings
Inspire you to...

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Categories: yanking, future,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Poisonous Parrot
oh there is this voice in my head that echoes
sometimes whispering venomous, poison insults
and at times screaming negativity... grasping my heart
twisting my spirit to tatters...

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Categories: yanking, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member But For Now
It’s surreal,
that in-between where, 
life stares down death.

One minute you’re facing eternity; 
the next the realization that 
you’re not in control.

In that reality,
life seems insignificant,
like...

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Categories: yanking, allusion, conflict, death, health,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Maybe
Making him your one and only
After his unfilled promises.
Yanking out those treasures of love
Brought out from closet cornices,
Even though he's your turtle dove....

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Categories: yanking, betrayal, love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Twister
I was only five years old when I witnessed my first tornado.  It chewed through parts of Dallas, Texas, then made its way northeast...

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Categories: yanking, storm, weather,
Form: Free verse
Possessed By Animalistic Lust
Possessed by animalistic lust
In a realm of fantasies
Sexualized beauties hands creep across their lover's skull
Every breath stolen from seductive rose lips
Bowing down in devotion, engaging...

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Categories: yanking, lust, sexy,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Witch of Winter
Judging our tensile strength

As she furiously reams 

Nibbling away at our armor

Undeterred by wishes or dreams

Alternately pushing and pulling

Rending our world with her blast

Yanking us...

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Categories: yanking, january,
Form: Acrostic
Mt. Pinatubo
Three o’clock in the afternoon: 
the sun should have been 
scorching the asphalts 
and the shingles on roofs, but 

spurts of red electric spark
ran across...

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Categories: yanking, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 30
The Columbia is a smooth beast that has introduced us to a semi tropic clime
that produces a bewildering humidity even for November
and a panoply of...

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Categories: yanking, adventure,
Form: Epic
The Sound of Distant Ankle Bells
The Sound of Distant Ankle Bells


Memories of those delicate tinkling bells,
casually fastened around calloused feet,

take hold of my waking moments,

and fling my thoughts back to...

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Categories: yanking, child, childhood, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
Darkest Day
In loving memory of Silly

The ominous clouds brew, icy darkness looms,
Evil cackle flashes sparks of its menacing fangs,
Sinking them deep into my soft yellow downy,
Yanking...

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Categories: yanking, bird, dark, death,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs