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Best Barn Poems

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


Premium Member Kitten In the Barn
It’s always a good practice when living on a farm,
To have a family of cats living in the barn
They always keep the rats and mice...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barn, cat, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Will Shepard
The day Will Shepard shot my dog
His barn burned to the soil;
The flames licked at the Autumn sky,
The smoke as black as oil.
I dropped the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barn, animals, cowboy-western, death, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Organic Ecstasy
It had been a day full of miraculous detail.

Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.

Trees snapped and flowers curtsied 
before engaging in a...

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Categories: barn, nature, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queen Size Bed
“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
			 © London F. Buss

  A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
  down the rough dirt track.
  As it drew closer,
...

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Categories: barn, death, for her, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Barn's Story

Worn wood is on the barn
like wrinkles from a hard life
Many long years have passed
It served its purpose, now filled
Things people didn't want to let...

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Categories: barn, memory, time, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.

Once all...

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Categories: barn, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Life's Stories
His eyes are dark, but, there's still a spark. 
There are canyons in his face.
His lungs are gone and it won't be long,
'Till his heart...

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Categories: barn, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn's Dreams of a Country Road
Autumn's dream of a country road
Where houses are few and moving slowed.
Leaves are turning gold_ red_ burgundy.
Inside a warm home apples are candy.
In a barn...

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Categories: barn, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: barn, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Grey Wind
**Dedicated to those who preceded us and gave their blood, sweat and tears, so we can have the luxuries they could not**


The wind whispers, the...

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Categories: barn, father, grandparents, mother, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sepia Recollections
As I sit upon these old porch steps, that I have always known
A weathered stoop, with gray floorboards, that shake with every wind
These creaks and...

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Categories: barn, family, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Hero
I hear them say,                                          ...

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Categories: barn, food, snow, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't...

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Categories: barn, change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do You Do
Well, my father was a farmer, just chickens and cows
When it came to raisin' 'em, he really knew how
To milk those bovines for all they...

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Categories: barn, farm, father, jewish, religion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member My Brick and Piece of Lumber
Mighty proud was I
with me lumber in one hand
my brick me carried in the other
I placed the brick in the barn yard
tall side for gained...

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Categories: barn, funny, humanity, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs