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Best Barnyard Poems

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


Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: barnyard, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Rooster
The Rooster

He strutted ‘cross the barnyard tall and proud,
away from all the bustle of the crowd;
the other roosters in the yard felt cowed,
to him they...

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Categories: barnyard, allegory, animal, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Ba Ba Bad Shepherd Boy
Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...

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Categories: barnyard, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Thanksgiving Turkey
They organized a church bazaar,
To raise money for the poor.
A booth for selling chances
Was set up, outside the door.

When I bought the raffle ticket, 
My...

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Categories: barnyard, animals, food, funny, seasons,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Alliteration For Poets
Alliteration always awesome
Ballad beyond barnyard basics
Crystalline calls careful consonants,

Diamante delivers deeply
Enthusiasm excites eager ears,
Fanciful frolicking faerie

Generously gives grateful glee
Hyping haiku to heavenly heights,
Imagery and imagination

Jubilantly...

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Categories: barnyard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member My Cousin Chaos
A cousin named Chaos have I (he’s not actually my cousin. He’s like my aunt’s stepson, but I guess I can still call him a...

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Categories: barnyard, writing,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Rooster Fred
Welcome to our barnyard, you can call me Fred.
My job is to get everyone out of bed.
Cheerful by nature, I’m proud to “cock-a-doodle-do.”
A beautiful crow...

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Categories: barnyard, animal, dance, farm, humor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Homeless
Oh, please, drop something in my cup, a bill or batch of change,
to see me smile when I look up...my fear with hope exchange.
A homeless...

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Categories: barnyard, for him, life, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Olfactory Humor
What is it 'bout farting
that makes people giggle?
It's simply aroma
that smells like a poop,
and you tell the grandkids
to call it a toot,
while silly Aunt Agnes
thinks...

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Categories: barnyard, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chicken Singing Turkey In the Straw
Buck buck buh-buck-buck
Buck buck buh-buck
Buck buck, buck buck, buck buck buck
Bucka buck bucka bucka buck
A'buck buck buck.

Buh-KAW k'buck buck
Buh-KAW k'buck
Buh-KAW k'buck buck
Buh-KAW k'buck
Buck buck buck...

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Categories: barnyard, animal, bird, farm, funny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stinky Or Sweet
Our memories can be aroma-based...
   at times not stoked by customary kind.
What some may find offensive, flee in haste,
   to others...

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Categories: barnyard, nostalgia, senses,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Cockadoodle Don'T
Hens and Roosters in the barnyard
living in symbiotic relationships
each searching for kernels of corn.
Taking turns with beaks they snip
scorned and pecked. What the heck?

How hard...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barnyard, conflict,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member More Sad Truth: of Pigs and Pearls
This was written with regard to Jan's poem about the sad truth she discovered yesterday.  An attitude adjustment is desperately needed for anyone who...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barnyard, poets, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind Is Blowing, and Something Smells
Yes, I know fetid air has been filtering in  
Everyone around chokes on the stench, 
sour gin disguised as sweet words 
from the mouth...

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Categories: barnyard, christian, courage, education, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Afoul of a Fowl
Time has come for getting tough
               For I have now had...

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Categories: barnyard, animal, child, humor, light,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things