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Best Backhoe Poems

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


Premium Member Backhoe
backhoe
digging in the road
mantis

concrete dust in flight-
fog

cricket 
on a window sill
frog

backhoe engine stops
hunger quenched


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Categories: backhoe, insect, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member I Love My Tractor
My John Deere tractor is my favorite toy.
There’s nothing better that I enjoy.
I have many attachments I use every day,
That are used for more than...

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Categories: backhoe, nature, passion, work,
Form: Rhyme
Simile Whim
Once upon a whim,
As an excavating limb
of a tractor under-tucked
the feed it hoisted up,
It seemed as though it goes
Akin to an elephant’s nose.

When later the...

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Categories: backhoe, basketball, fun, simile,
Form: Rhyme
* Yes
Untie the knot, patriarch,
the broken kiss was
intimidating.

The backhoe picks up the
devil, it was within you
when you were casting stone
at the fear.

The pagan was covered
with leaves
raw...

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Being Followed
Walking down the street one dark night; I passed some road working equipment.  Down the road a bit, I felt I was being followed....

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Categories: backhoe, fantasy, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Personification



For My Deep Thinking Friend Who Is Coming To An End of Things
I came to see you at the remodeled hospital
there were bright tiles, statuary Marys, and assorted saints
"full code" was on the door.
We talked about your...

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Categories: backhoe, friend, friendship, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Two Feet In the Air
the two footed tackle
we would deem most likely to raise authority’s hackle
so better the elbow
to the back of the head like a blundering backhoe....

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, allusion,
Form: Clerihew
Poetic Schedule



Monday ... hit ‘em with a hard ballpoint slam
Shake the weekend ‘nish out of their veins
Tuesday ... hot comb straighten out the political wigs
Give the...

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Categories: backhoe, poets, slam, symbolism, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sans a Spade
A sizable portion of my life
I've passed, slobbering over
The antagonistic ashes
Of an untruth.

Years down the road,
By accident, I exposed;

Though this untruth,
Was deeply entombed in my...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backhoe, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Sperm Motility
nature's way of saying
I love what you do with your tongue
mom used to lick her hanky 
to clean my face I want to kill her
aided...

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Categories: backhoe, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Halliwells Hill
let the fetters fall where they will,
when they put me down there, 
 under the 6 foot hill,
or perhaps to hang there on the hook,
trim...

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, me, me,
Form: Ballad
Yes
Untie the knot, patriarch,
the broken kiss was
intimidating.

The backhoe picks up the
devil, it was within you
when you were casting stone
at the fear.

The pagan was covered
with leaves
raw...

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Categories: backhoe, art
Form: I do not know?
Francis H
Francis H.

Down in old Jimboomba is me old mate Francis H
And he wants to go to the Uni, just to hang around the place,
So I...

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, old, me, old,
Form: Ballad
Forgive Me, I Beg
I said goodbye today….
  saying for months
  what I’d been trying to say

Alone in the throng
  staring down at the hole
 ...

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Categories: backhoe, death,
Form: Rhyme
Black Widow
i express my love
rigor mortisly
ah the little
death

except mine for 
me for you is 
completely
deadly

i have a toe
tag with
more
then

John Doe
Dear John
or John Deere
which is actually 

the...

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Categories: backhoe, muse,
Form: I do not know?

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