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Best Zigzag Poems

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


Premium Member Unsettled Sea
While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the...

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Categories: zigzag, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme



Crushed
Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying ...

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Categories: zigzag, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Has Sprung
All around our hedgerows and gardens
Buds are forming bringing brilliant
Colour into our lives where previously
Dreary winter darkness lurked.
Everywhere new life is forming
Fields are bouncing with...

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Categories: zigzag, daffodils, nature, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Loch Ness
The cooling evening breeze lifted and moved the laggard clouds
filtering the burnished moon through the sheer curtains  on  either side,
makes nature shiver.

Moon holds...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zigzag, imagery, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Writing On Snow
The sun on snow looks like glossy paper
Rolled out in endless sheets
With my skis I sketch and write in zigzag letters
Long and flowing are my...

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Categories: zigzag, creation, writing,
Form: Free verse



A Crooked House
We lived in a crooked house.
Built on a muddy mound of hope with the corpse of yesterday half buried beneath
Sad eyes and smiley faces. A...

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© Zed Zed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zigzag, childhood, home, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Thing In the Pool
I drown you in wine, the goddamn squatter 
who lives in me. Flow, Lethe, dark and deep!
But even through a drunken dreamless sleep,
like a nude...

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Categories: zigzag, death, fear, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Squirrels
Superbly agile and acrobatic creatures.
Quirky zigzag moves and mannerisms.
Unique techniques for stealing seeds and nuts.
Incredibly strong front incisors that keep growing.
Really smart, mischievous and very...

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Categories: zigzag, animal, humorous, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Walking With the Wind
I was an environmental scientist, working with large wind farm developers,
To harness wind and generate electricity, as a plum sun flees, to tell others.

I worked...

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Categories: zigzag, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ode To Vigan City
Take your halcyon moment, have your blissful jaunt
Explore the northern hills and rivers, their helix flaunts
From zigzag paths of the south, from verdant plains of...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zigzag, beauty, dedication, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Zoo From a To Z
Alligators, Aardvarks; Arctic fox and hare. Also Armadillos and Asses will be there!

Bobcats, Beavers, Boars; One Blue whale will do! Bovines and a Booby (maybe...

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Categories: zigzag,
Form: Abecedarian
While Close Dancing
On the dance-floor they did a zigzag
But he was an ol’ scallywag:
-	“If you feel something hard
-	Pay no regard …
It’s just my colostomy-bag”...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zigzag, dance, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Zany Z's
Zany Z’s

Zany zoo of zaftig zebras,
Zarnder manes, zebus with ziffs,
Zip through zawns, zigzag with zest
Wearing zories and a zoster
From too much zimstern, zabaglione and ziti-
Zucchini,...

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Categories: zigzag, animal, bird, crazy, food,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Black Oak Tree
A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any...

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Categories: zigzag, april, creation, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mountain of Madness
A mountain madness, Colorado Springs'
Pike's Peak, some twenty miles to summit's top,
with roads like winding snakes that coil like rings
and at the open edge, steep...

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Categories: zigzag, angst, journey, mountains,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things