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Best Back Yard Poems

Below are the all-time best Back Yard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of back yard poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: back yard, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back yard, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
A Passing Shadow
Behind our house, below the deck
with its pleasing benches and sylvan view,
the back yard we have descends steeply
to a little stream called Chimacum Creek.

It is...

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Categories: back yard, pets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member About Me - P.D.
"TELL YOU ABOUT ME "
   
Born a full blown Libra to a scale of blind justice
My hair & eyes are brown as can...

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Categories: back yard, life, lovecare, me, care,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back yard, community,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Collage For Dale
Here you are, only twelve, at our kitchen table.
Such a carrot top you were! Strangers used to think
you were our red-head mother’s natural son.

And here’s...

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Categories: back yard, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dead Animals Are Everywhere
"Oh, honey," he cried on the phone,
"It's terrible being alone.
I'm feeling the blues,
and I have some strange news. . . "
He went on and on...

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Categories: back yard, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Taste of My Varied Genres
A Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along...

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Categories: back yard, poetry, , cute, ,
Form: Epic
A Dogs Life
I've been shoved out in the back yard,
A bit ruff, don't you agree?
It's not that I've disgraced myself,
No,It's because SHE caught a flea!
Don't know what...

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Categories: back yard, funny, pets
Form: Personification
I Am Nothing But the Color Red
My veins bleed of Crimson defeat-
The way they flow with such ease and comfort
      brings me to my remorseful knees…
I...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back yard, angst, anxiety, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gone Fishing
The snow so deep… That it was over our heads… Was a melting by the hour!
Give it a day, or two at most… and with...

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Categories: back yard, adventure, funny, happy, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Our Grandmother's Blessings
So many trials seem to be filled up with so much fear
So many ask, “Oh Dear Lord, what am I doing here”?

So many questions that...

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Categories: back yard, dedication, devotion, faith, family,
Form: Couplet
Little Black Girl
LITTLE BLACK GIRL
                      ...

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Categories: back yard, inspirational, girl, god, girl,
Form: I do not know?
Her Special Sandbox
Before her Auntie died she built her a big sandbox,
I remember her sitting there with long curly brown locks.
The sun in her face with an...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back yard, childhood, fun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Strangest Birthday Present I Ever Received
I was brought up on a smallholding when I was a lass
We needed something to help us cut the vast expanse of grass
I wanted a...

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Categories: back yard, humorous, pets, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs