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

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  11. by
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  12. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  13. I Borrowed Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  14. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  15. From Cloud Nine... to you by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  16. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  17. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  18. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  19. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  20. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  21. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  22. holy unhaiku by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  23. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  24. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  25. Friends of Words I Once Penned - Explicit
     by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  26. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  27. Jagged Dreams by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  28. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  29. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  30. Of What's Left In The Measure by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  31. Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher) by Bruce W Niedt
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  32. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  33. Set Apart by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  34. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  35. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  36. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  37. she lifts sunglasses by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  38. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  39. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  40. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  41. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  42. Growing Roots by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  43. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  44. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  45. because i have no spine, because she sleeps so deeply by Elliot Thaler
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  46. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  47. In The Wake Of An Albatross by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  48. Eternal by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  49. Medicated to the One I Love by David R Spellman
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  50. If Lakes Were Eyes by Kathleen Wilson
    (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. Unraveled Strands by Max Bouillet
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)
  6. Gems Of Armageddon by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)

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  7. by
    (Brilliant, 20 Votes)

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

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  20. by
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  21. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  22. Reminiscence by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  23. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  24. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  25. Killing Time As A Cartographer by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  26. A Horse Tied to a Tree by Glenn Currier
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  27. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  28. by
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  38. a language of coins by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  39. trouble in youngsville by Gabriel Ricard
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  40. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  41. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  42. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  43. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  44. So The Soothe Unfurled by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  45. Pattern by Jane E Pearce
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  46. Clothes (line) Encounter by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  47. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  48. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  49. Imagine Me in Cassie's Red Suede Boots by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  50. If Lakes Were Eyes 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. Grain of Sand by Alejandra Dotb
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  5. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  6. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  7. Iron Mountain by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  8. Regression to the Mean by Elle O'Connor
    (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. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)

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  13. by
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  14. Jenni by Jim Benz
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  15. Bare Feet, Borrowed by Lori Johnson
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  16. holy unhaiku by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  17. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  18. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  19. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  20. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  21. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  22. Poet in the Summer Forest by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  23. Fairy in White Lilies by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  24. Loneliness, my Arizona by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  25. by
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  26. Clothes (line) Encounter by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  27. When I Look at You by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  28. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  29. Full House by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  30. Aurora Marialis by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  31. Lessons From the Highchair by Arthur D Freeman
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  32. she lifts sunglasses by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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  33. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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

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  37. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  38. my found floret by Chris Romano
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  39. Climatic Dream Analysis by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  40. If Lakes Were Eyes by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  41. Control by Maureen Glaude
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  42. In The Wake Of An Albatross by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)

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  43. by
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  44. Closing Time by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  45. The Rose by Rula Shin
    (Brilliant, 13 Votes)
  46. the bone whittler by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)

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  47. by
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)

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  48. by
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  49. The View from the Back of the Bus by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 12 Votes)
  50. Saint Mountain Rocks by Elizabeth Jill
    (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. specter by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 22 Votes)
  5. Oceans run deep by Anne Engelen
    (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. How to write poetry by Bridger Madison
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  10. dear poet by Christian Ragunton
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  11. s h a n n o t s by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  12. The Dust of Stars by JD Clay
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  13. All I Ever Wanted to Be by Rusty C Arquette
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  14. iron knees by Elizabeth Jill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  15. Postcards to Edinburgh by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 19 Votes)
  16. Peculiar Fire by Ken Harnisch
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  17. Half Moon Watching by Michelle Angelini
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)

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  18. by
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  19. In My Own Defence I Blame My Hotel by Anne Engelen
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  20. Into The Light by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  21. Isolation by Alison McKenzie
    (Brilliant, 18 Votes)
  22. Home Finds Us by Rula Shin
    (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)

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  25. by
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  26. On Borrowed Time by Chris Sorrenti
    (Brilliant, 17 Votes)
  27. From A Simple Pen by Maria Howard
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  28. bridging suspended by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  29. Going Sleeveless by Rhiannon Jones
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  30. Dissolve by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  31. Kaleidoscope by Barbara Penryn
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  32. Definitely not the seashore by Bonnie J Adams
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  33. Reminiscence by Therese Boling
    (Brilliant, 16 Votes)
  34. Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher) by Bruce W Niedt
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  35. To My Earth by Kathleen Wilson
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  36. halloween sacrifice by Mara Meade
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  37. Searching Indigo Shade by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  38. In Our White Days by Gregory O'Neill
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  39. Stardust by Aaron Blair
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  40. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  41. My Tadpole Society Kukai Entry (Color) by Maureen Glaude
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  42. divide and rue by Laura Doom
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  43. My First Cigarrette by Christina Bruno
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)

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  44. by
    (Brilliant, 15 Votes)
  45. Within - Without by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  46. Order of Things (word-order palindrome) by Sallie Mattison Young
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  47. Loneliness, my Arizona by Julie Adams
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  48. why I don’t write by Leslie Ann Eisenberg
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  49. goldengate by S.K. Kenworthy
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)
  50. Clothes (line) Encounter by Kristina Woodhill
    (Brilliant, 14 Votes)

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