Get Your Premium Membership

Best Big C Poems

Below are the all-time best Big C poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of big c poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's Valentine
Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...

Read more of this work...
© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: big c, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interview with the Wind
“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius

“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr. 
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Life, To Me
Colors daubed for seasons' scenes
          I sift through life for what it means
   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now
I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Editing of Me
My words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction 

I wanted to resist...

Read more of this work...
Categories: big c, conflict, recovery from,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things