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Smart Poems | Examples of Smart Poetry

Smart Poems - Examples of all types of smart poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for smart.
Smart Boy
“B0B, what DID you do at NOON?” DAD asked him. MA'AM said, "REFER to the net for a hymn." “WOW! Can you sing? A good DEED” I tried to PEEP but couldn’t read. “No power! I played with SIS,"...Read the rest...
Categories: smart,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Smokey Filled Speak Easy
In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar, Were jazz and jive spill from ajar, We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars, And speak in verses, raw and without pause. The city breathes, a living, pulsing beat, Its heart...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Alphabet Soup a Riddle
Without further interruption a game, riddle. Abyssal void manifests a skeleton and a cloak, he has a sickle but is no reaper, plays cards instead. Dealt in a kraken with all sevens, four on the board but the dice are...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Crapping Out A Masterpiece, Part II
...Now some may think this trend depressing, there’s this idea our creators’ minds understand things on some deep level when they happen to craft the sublime. But I, as one more wayward writer, find the crapped-masterpiece comforting, since years of work...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, art, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Crapping Out A Masterpiece, Part I
It’s funny to look at creatives, painters, writers, musicians and such, look back across their bodies of work, and laugh at how much of it is luck, that things they put their whole soul into now languish deep in obscurity, while...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, art, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Soldier Of Christ
You must stand firm Not entangled to this life Strong in all form....Read the rest...
Categories: character, faith, smart, strength,
Form: Haiku
Intelligent
If you're rich with brains Want the wind to get the wind If it rains, it rains....Read the rest...
Categories: smart, character, mental health, motivation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Forest Creatures
They've no doctors to alleviate pain nor nutritionists to stem weight gain No carpenters to build them a domicile or dealers to sell them an automobile...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, inspirational, smart,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Uncharted
Could have wished, would have shown me earlier, If it weren't only for the tranquil color, Covering energy, wasted serene past finally dissipated, Uncomfortable in others' comfort, glossy sight surroundings, Reexamining this position wasn't all it was cut out...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, absence, addiction, adventure, art,
Form: Free verse
Carte Steak Carnival Carnival Carte Steak
Talos's teather Protected by having in an industry of lovers he proceeds to ply between two things i characters together heirs to assignment cohorts of work trouble through the details sort out the duties define there roles championing each cause might they labor thus in toil must they labor! When...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, adventure, celebration, fashion, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Ode to a Highway Star
Lock up your daughter, My wheels gonna slaughter, Heading along the road, Race ya, drive this load, Beat you all, speed patrol, Trailblazer, this my role, You'll never catch my page, I'm the star of this whole stage!...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, car, fate, smart,
Form: Rhyme
Little Red Riding Hood
She sewed all day and she sewed all night then gave her daughter a red cape, some bread and a brave warning, "Grandma needs you so remember, don't dilly dally in the forest Ruby....Read the rest...
Categories: funny, smart,
Form: Haibun
City Life
Talking to people Circles of fear Straight lines and queers The conscious mirror drops narrator's tears Never forgetting the bird with transparent wings Zombies walking in and out of their mouths Left me standing No bottom No escaping a loss soul...Read the rest...
Categories: heaven, people, raven, smart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ivan the Younger
There is a game we play but played by no one else The same game you can play If you play it by yourself. I had long ago wondered of what had me pondered for at home is an enigma and we...Read the rest...
Categories: smart, allusion, analogy, appreciation, boy,
Form: Chastushka
To my Daughter, Aubree
In the realm of words, where emotions flow, I craft this poem for my daughter to know, Some things I see in her as I watch her grow. Her intelligence, a mind so wise, She's smarter than she may...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, daughter, smart,
Form: Rhyme

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