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Best Backhoe Poems


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 just play.

My backhoe, chipper, and snow-blow......

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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 machine
Departed from the scen......

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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
......

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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.  I glanced back and saw a backhoe that I’d passed at the wo......

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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 eventual escape and some summer plans
No......

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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
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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 trough lap dogs some cynicis......

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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 psyche,
V......

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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 by my only allies
the hobo armies of doom
resulted in a sweet to......

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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 me gall bladder,
 gone forsook,
at the university...
......

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Categories: backhoe, adventure, me, me,
Form: Ballad
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
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
......

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Categories: backhoe, art
Form:
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 said just get a backhoe to dig a bloody trench,
And swing a door ......

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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
  they had laid you upon

I remember
  the laughter
  and the joy th......

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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 a......

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Categories: backhoe, muse,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things