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Best Bantering Poems

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


The Shoe Store Bantering
She jiggled like pink jello into the store
with platinum blonde hair and red rouge on her face
the shoe clerk mumbled it must be 1950's day
watching...

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Categories: bantering, funny love, silly,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux

Jan,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantering, halloween, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Baksheesh
In for a penny, in for a pound
money makes the world go round.

“Baksheesh, pretty lady, Cleopatra eyes?”
foreign intrigue in a bantering guise.

“What do you want,...

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Categories: bantering, adventure, allegory, education, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member You Tease Me So Nicely
His interest awakens as a young woman
sauntered in the pub as he laid eyes on her bosom.
Enticing from the moment he saw her.
Her skin purrs...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantering, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mocking Dance of the Dead
Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Silent One 
"Do not be...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantering, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme



Bahay Kubo
BAHAY KUBO

Our Bahay Kubo
Is made of light materials of woods, nipa and bamboo
It is situated near the sand dunes of the sea
Its fence surrounding it...

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Categories: bantering, places
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Toothache
I wish that I had choked and died
On those chocolate candy bars.
I wish my mom had tanned my hide
About those tempting cookie jars.

I wish that...

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Categories: bantering, candy, childhood, humor, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Elegant Eagle and Watchful Wolf
My soul surrenders and soars like the elegant eagle
As my mind melds of the wolves wildly witted
Experiencing mother earth thru the eye of the needle
Frolicking...

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Categories: bantering, adventure, analogy, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day  with prayers of thanks and blessings

Hue of warmth and rich amber and scarlet crowns losing 

Ardent colors gleam beneath the trees as...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantering, autumn, blessing, family, food,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Truths
Can we speak
                      ...

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Categories: bantering, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snoopy and Snowman
Snoopy and Snowman

Snoopy challenged his huge friend, Snowman
Who has no legs, feet and two icicle hands
He gave him snowball and said, “Throw it!
If you can’t,...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantering, character, funny, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Rain Dance
The window panes shuddered
as he crawled back into his bed 
of disillusion; waiting for 
lightning to strike him 
 into some state 
of normalcy.
The sky...

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Categories: bantering, break up, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Between the Lines
In an otherwise
uneventuful
morning, between the
roles we locked 
eyes, bantering 
without 
mincing words, allowing 
futures, names, and
rebuttals to 
stem from our hearts 
unmuffled, and 
mingle.

A fearless...

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Categories: bantering, allegory, dance, language, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Like a Red Red Rose
She blushed as the rose, taken from her ebony hair,
moved gracefully, slowly, sensually sliding,
brushing her eyelids, cheeks, and ruby lips,

tickled her neck, teased her décolletage,...

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Categories: bantering, beauty, love, sensual,
Form: Verse
Connoisseuring Love
Connoissuering Love


A toast to love! Celebrating four decades of togetherness
I raised the crystal glass of plum wine sparkling with love
Swirling the wine years of unflagging...

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Categories: bantering, love, together, wine,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs