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Best Bag Poems

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


Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: bag, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Goodbye
(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bag, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
A Need To Be Somewhere Else
I’m the one who needs to be somewhere else, 
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...

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Categories: bag, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: bag, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bag, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: bag, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bag, child,
Form: Haibun
Categories: bag, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Guardian Angel
Just a small girl, an innocent rose bud
lost in daydreams while she walked
home from school, for several blocks.

It was a fine, spring day in Berkeley
warm...

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Categories: bag, angel, child, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: bag, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Streetlife
I’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a...

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Categories: bag, environment, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bag, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flip Flop
This is my black Christmas
I have nothing left to lose
I’m a bare footed white walker with no shoes
It’s okay burly guy don’t cry
I’ve found my...

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Categories: bag, angst, appreciation, christmas, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Through a Child's Eyes
finding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches

What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...

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Categories: bag, child,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member T'Was the Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had...

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Categories: bag, christmas, humor,
Form: Narrative

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