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Meter Poems - Poems about Meter
Meter Poems - Examples of all types of poems about meter to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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I intersect the tiles on flat a hall
I intersect the tiles on flat a hall, Their roughened silver boundaries trespassed, Long-stolen their reflections on the wall That once had stripes of borrowed sunlight cast. At intervals denoted by the hour, More herds stamp dimmed and silence luster...
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Scott Kass
Categories:
meter,
depression, hope, how i
Form:
Rhyme
I Should Not Stop For Death
I would not stop for Death—Impatience— Spurred my footsteps on— His carriage lingered at the gate— But I had long since gone— -- The daisies whispered at my heels— The wind implored me stay— Yet Time unbuttoned from my grasp— And swept the...
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James Mclain
Categories:
meter,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
A Limerick on Limericks
A sentence or two, nothing more. Five rhymes, and then back out the door. A meter that’s strained, Some topic profaned: Ah me! What’s a limerick for? ...
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Jerrold Prothero
Categories:
meter,
funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Limerick
Pumpkin Meter
Peter, Peter Pumpkin eater, I wish I never heard of meter....
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David Crandall
Categories:
meter,
humor, nursery rhyme, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A letter to BS Meter
Lots of books, lots and lots of books ISBN numbers and the special book-calling in style Once after reaching puberty, how to see Maria Shriver is among these, (almost a right-angle question). After liquor, a loud unspoken indecisive moment...
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Tamanna Ferdous
Categories:
meter,
child,
Form:
Free verse
A Different Meter
A very novice poet am I, a fledgling, just learning how to fly. My thoughts may climb as I flap my wings but my anchored feet to this earth still clings. I hope in time these wings won't...
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Nancy Kaufman
Categories:
meter,
poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Would You Like To Meter
Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their stresses; even-numbered syllables are muted....
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John Watt
Categories:
meter,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Cadence
Cadence Nature dances in the cadence of grace In hypnotic snows descending Or raindrops steady patter In symphonies of metered tides That match the rhythmic heartbeat Drawing spindrift of the heart into fusion. Grace never slumbers in hibernation, Nor does the pulse of...
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Sam Kauffman
Categories:
meter,
dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Meter Maid
I truly apologize to any reader. I've run out of change for my poetry meter. Please send me some quarters or a quartette. The meter maid has not been by yet.....
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©
Nancy Kaufman
Categories:
meter,
poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Try Just One More Time
Life is a journey It is not a hundred meter dash It is a marathon of curves and twists That unfolds in stages Every phase serves a purpose In the university of life No matter how brilliant you are You...
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Augustine Ogoegbunam Eseke
Categories:
meter,
allusion, character, confidence, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Ruled By Meter, Ruled By Rhyme
Ruled by Meter, Ruled by Rhyme (A Poet of “What’s Next”) I love both metered verse and rhyme, the discipline they bring that guides the output of my muse (their voices help heart sing without restraint). They elevate mere...
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Roof Missing
Categories:
meter,
love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Were Your
He said, I don't know why you're acting like this. Yoou trow the cornbread on thr table and it fell to the floor. I got up and left. you hit me with the Hoe, on purpose again I left. When...
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Allan Terry
Categories:
meter,
art, film, love, marriage,
Form:
Ballade
The Parking Meter Thief
A street meter thief, Peter Jeter Would saw off the head of one meter, Take it home in his sack, Keep the coins, bring it back, Which was pointless by that time, of course, having completely...
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John Watt
Categories:
meter,
giggle, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Meter Minding
Poets count on fingies To get the meter right. Scribes of prosy thingies, In randomness delight....
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Anthony Beck
Categories:
meter,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
2 Meter Apart
YOU are on the hospital bed, struggling for your last breath but this time I too lost my faith because can't stay beside you as I promised...
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Ronisha Chauhan
Categories:
meter,
anxiety, growing up, memory,
Form:
Free verse
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