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

Last Line Prompt - Not For Contest

We met on a blind date oh so many years ago
You wanted to get to know me I said lets take it slow
But one thing...

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Categories: prompt, humorous, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Quote Prompt 5

"I have dug my way out the ground with palm and fist many times- my whole life has been one burial after another; I will...

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Categories: prompt, betrayal, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

A First Line Prompt

Red Lanterns 

Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
They swing in the breeze, they dance and then freeze,
Red glistening...

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Categories: prompt, beautiful, children, city, dream,
Form: Lyric

Picture Prompt - You'Re a Diamond

your brilliance is
            indestructible-

your resilience
         ...

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Categories: prompt, beautiful, inspiration,
Form: Verse

Triple Prompt- Hear the Calling

I Hear The Call Of The Wild

I hear the call of the wild.
Once again gear on my journey
Through the dark dense jungles.
Exploring the flora and...

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Categories: prompt, adventure, animal, family, freedom,
Form: Pastoral

A First Line Prompt - Not For Contest

Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
He feasted his eyes on her huge boobies on show
These were the fruits he most wanted to pluck
He was...

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Categories: prompt, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Waiting Room-A Last Line Prompt

I walked in and was hit by the familiar smell of fear and disinfectant 
then wrapped my sweater tighter from the cold and discomfort. 
I...

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Categories: prompt, culture, encouraging, friend, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Quote Prompt 1

Quote Prompt:
"How is it so easy for you to be kind to people?" he asked...
Milk and honey dripped from my lips and I answered,
"cause people...

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Categories: prompt, betrayal, discrimination, inspiration,
Form: Verse

Dogs Picture Prompt

Come on guys I really need to go.
My inside are about to blow,
This line is way too long,
No time to sing a song.
I am filled...

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Categories: prompt, giggle, song, time, uplifting,
Form: Limerick

Picture Prompt-Unveiling

immersed in bondage she's
    masqueraded by fear-
absorbed in blindness she's
    wrapped up in dismay-

no light to reveal her insight,
but...

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Categories: prompt, deep, humanity,
Form: Verse

2-8-2012 Prompt: Hat -Written For Nahaiwrimo

exotic plumage
adorning expensive hats—
chicks

© February 8, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

http://www.endangeredspecieshandbook.org/legislation_lacey.php...

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Categories: prompt, animals, death, history, life,
Form: Haiku

A Last Line Prompt

Rendezvous 

Shopping in the arcade their eyes met
For long they magnetically froze
White silver haired with bags in hand
They slowly moved forward with guarded steps
Their hands...

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Categories: prompt, happiness, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Quote Prompt 3

 "You must have known you were wrong when your fingers dipped inside me searching for honey that would not come for you."
-rupi kaur




 ...

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Categories: prompt, break up, loss,
Form: Verse

Quote Prompt 6-Life Is Spectacular

"SUDDENLY YOU'RE RIPPED INTO BEING ALIVE AND LIFE IS PAIN, AND SUFFERING AND LIFE IS HORROR...BUT MY GOD, YOU'RE ALIVE AND LIFE IS SPECTACULAR"


we don't...

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Categories: prompt, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Sunset

The sun slit his wrists
Murderess Moon just watches
I bet she did it...

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Categories: prompt, evil, goodbye, suicide, sunset,
Form: Haiku