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Top 200 Poems

The following is a list by criterea of what our members consider the best poetry on the site. The ranking is based upon the overall score and number of votes cast per poem. Trolling, or voting low to knock people off the list, is tracked and is cause for member termination.

Most Creative:
  1. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  2. The Sea Odette by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  3. Chalk Marks on a Dead Soul by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  4. A Tenet In Periphery by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  5. Gems Of Armageddon by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  6. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  7. The Dust of Stars by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  8. To Catch a Thief (Prose) by Graeme Fielden
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  9. Hanging Rope by Charles E Minshall
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  10. iron knees by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)

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  11. by
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  12. I Borrowed Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  13. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  14. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  15. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  16. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  17. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  18. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  19. From Cloud Nine... to you by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  20. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  21. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  22. holy unhaiku by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  23. Jagged Dreams by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  24. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  25. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  26. Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher) by Bruce W Niedt
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  27. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  28. because i have no spine, because she sleeps so deeply by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  29. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  30. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  31. Friends of Words I Once Penned - Explicit
     by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  32. Of What's Left In The Measure by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  33. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  34. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  35. Set Apart by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  36. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  38. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  39. she lifts sunglasses by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  40. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  41. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  42. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  43. Growing Roots by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  44. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  45. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  46. If Lakes Were Eyes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  47. In The Wake Of An Albatross by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  48. Eternal by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  49. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  50. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
 Best Form:

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  1. by
    (Brilliant, 34 Votes)
  2. not watching the breast-feeding woman in the cafe at seven a.m. by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 27 Votes)
  3. "We were boys, really." by W. Mahlon Purdin
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  4. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  5. Gems Of Armageddon by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  6. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)

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  7. by
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)

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  8. by
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  9. All I Ever Wanted to Be by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  10. How to write poetry by Bridger Madison
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  11. iron knees by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  12. The Dust of Stars by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  13. s h a n n o t s by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  14. dear poet by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  15. To Catch a Thief (Prose) by Graeme Fielden
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  16. In My Own Defence I Blame My Hotel by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)

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  17. by
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  18. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  19. Multiple Choice by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  20. A King's Ransom by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)

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  21. by
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  22. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  23. by
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  24. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  25. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  26. Reminiscence by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  27. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  28. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  29. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  30. Killing Time As A Cartographer by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  31. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  32. Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher) by Bruce W Niedt
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  33. To My Earth by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  34. divide and rue by Laura Doom
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  35. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  36. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  38. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  39. So The Soothe Unfurled by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  40. trouble in youngsville by Gabriel Ricard
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  41. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  42. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  43. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  44. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  45. Clothes (line) Encounter by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  46. a language of coins by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  47. Pattern by Jane E Pearce
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  48. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  49. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  50. Climatic Dream Analysis by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
 

Most Vivid Imagery:

  1. specter by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  2. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)

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  3. by
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  4. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  5. Grain of Sand by Alejandra Dotb
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  6. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  7. Regression to the Mean by Elle O'Connor
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  8. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  9. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  10. Eve by Indigo Tempesta
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)

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  11. by
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  12. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  13. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  14. by
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  15. Bare Feet, Borrowed by Lori Johnson
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  16. Jenni by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  17. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  18. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  19. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  20. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  21. holy unhaiku by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  22. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  23. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  24. Clothes (line) Encounter by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  25. Aurora Marialis by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  26. she lifts sunglasses by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  27. Full House by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  28. Lessons From the Highchair by Arthur D Freeman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  29. my found floret by Chris Romano
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  30. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  31. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  32. Loneliness, my Arizona by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  33. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  34. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  35. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  36. IT TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER NEW YEARS by Charles E Minshall
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  38. If Lakes Were Eyes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  39. Closing Time by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  40. In The Wake Of An Albatross by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  41. Climatic Dream Analysis by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  42. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  43. Control by Maureen Glaude
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  44. The Rose by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  45. Amazing Grace by Karl Waldbauer
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  46. by
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)

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  47. by
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  48. The View from the Back of the Bus by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  49. Give Me Back Myself by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  50. the bone whittler by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  

Best Overall:

  1. not watching the breast-feeding woman in the cafe at seven a.m. by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 27 Votes)
  2. - Folding Teeshirts - by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 24 Votes)
  3. "We were boys, really." by W. Mahlon Purdin
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  4. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  5. specter by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  6. Please continue with yourself... by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 21 Votes)
  7. A Tenet In Periphery by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  8. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  9. iron knees by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  10. The Dust of Stars by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  11. Postcards to Edinburgh by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  12. dear poet by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  13. All I Ever Wanted to Be by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  14. Peculiar Fire by Ken Harnisch
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  15. How to write poetry by Bridger Madison
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  16. s h a n n o t s by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  17. Half Moon Watching by Michelle Angelini
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  18. In My Own Defence I Blame My Hotel by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)

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  19. by
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  20. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  21. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  22. A King's Ransom by Lori Blair
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  23. I Borrowed Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  24. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  25. On Borrowed Time by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)

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  26. by
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  27. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  28. Going Sleeveless by Rhiannon Jones
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  29. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  30. bridging suspended by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  31. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  32. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  33. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  34. Reminiscence by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  35. My First Cigarrette by Christina Bruno
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  36. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  38. Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher) by Bruce W Niedt
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  39. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  40. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  41. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  42. because i have no spine, because she sleeps so deeply by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  43. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  44. My Tadpole Society Kukai Entry (Color) by Maureen Glaude
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  45. divide and rue by Laura Doom
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  46. To My Earth by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  47. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  48. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  49. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  50. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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