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Best Boxing Day Poems

Below are the all-time best Boxing Day poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of boxing day poems written by PoetrySoup members


Boxing Day
Christmas day now over,
The turkeys now all dead.
While the bloated celebrators
Sleep their gorging off in bed.

No matter what it cost them.
(Though it cost the turkeys...

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Categories: christmas, boxing day,
Form: Rhyme



Boxing Day
Boxing Day

Christmas over,
Boxing day,
Snow replaced by rain,
Turkey eaten,
Presents opened,
Bones and wrapping remain.

Silent carols,
Muted bells,
The candles all burned out,
Bottle tops,
Nutshells
And gift tags lay round about.

Glittered cards,
Ribbons...

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Categories: christmas, boxing day,
Form: Rhyme
666 of Boxing Day
Around 29AD, a saviour claimed eternity as a light of future hope,
Recorded or foretold, accepted or rejected, he left a message that stretched,
Across the pages...

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Categories: betrayal, boxing day , conflict,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Eight
EIGHT


A deliberate surprise 
A shove from the back
while creating artwork 
in my second-grade class
Perhaps an ocean scene
A distant angry memory
of my eight-year-old 
consciousness


The broken waxy...

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Categories: boxing day, 2nd grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
My abiding memory of 2015 is of events that are so sad
With my father’s death, it’s the worst year I’ve ever had

It has been the...

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Categories: boxing day, christmas, giving, humorous, memory,
Form: Couplet



SALES - Day after Christmas contest
Awoke with a feeling of deflation
The razzamatazz is over pressie’s given
Then a thought arouses me with a smile
Whilst the men watch the sport on this...

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Categories: boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Praise the Lord dont --HATE--
Get him off get of me
Before Jesus give smack down
Let your fingers crumble and fall
Help distort there mind begin to separate
Please help me now
I down...

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Categories: boxing day, abuse, angel, anger, anti
Form: Verse
A Very Memorable Christmas Present
** A Very Memorable Christmas Present **

Someone made an err::
Boxing Day ‘ere’s 
Been the day of — not after.
What started as the greatest 
Christmas ever,...

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Categories: boxing day , christmas, dog,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Cat-and-Mouse Peek-a-boo
Cat-and-mouse
  Gloves held high
Can't see you
  Peek-a-boo

Gloves held high
  Block every punch
Can't get through
  Peek-a-boo

Drop your guard
  One split second
BAM...

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Categories: boxing day , crush, sports,
Form: Light Verse
AN ATHLETE'S POEM
It takes a lot of time to master such skill
There are lot of downtimes but I climb on my hill
There are days that my body...

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Categories: baseball, basketball, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Special Days
Special Days
Written: by Tom Wright
4/13/2006

It seems that for almost everything
We’ve set aside a special day.
We recognize others for their work 
And sometimes for their play;

There’s...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boxing day, day, humor, satire, new
Form: Rhyme
A Fighter's cry
Don't allow him to corner you, punch him hard on his face, kick him hard and make him cry, just one nice smack and the...

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Categories: anger, boxing day , death,
Form: I do not know?
Elegy 'n' Eulogy for Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Moral Vs Dream
Moral Vs Dream 

Family cry for Penny 
My dream cry for achievemnt 

Family cry for rid off from responsibility 
My responsibility cry for work 

Family...

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Categories: adventure, boxing day , courage,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member MY PARTING GIFTS
The time has come for me to say goodbye forever
I am not brilliant at expressing my emotions
But in the words of ‘Sealion Dion’ ….
‘I will...

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Categories: boxing day, humorous, husband, i love
Form: Free verse
CHRISTMAS ON MY COMPUTER
             CHRISTMAS ON MY COMPUTER
	
1.Attention on my computer!
An intruder detected.
It is not a...

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Categories: birthday, blessing, boxing day ,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Unopposed Oxymoron
Unopposed Oxymoron

This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission

Serious...

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Categories: boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Clouds
Pink Clouds

Great fluffy clouds of pink and light blue,
Came in to my dream, no words but I knew,
The angels had come to see me again,
Part...

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Categories: boxing day, adventure, me, me, boxing
Form: Rhyme
I knew it was Christmas
I knew it was coming up to Christmas when Mom started to stress
About the lack of money and if she could get us all a...

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Categories: boxing day, childhood, christmas, funny, boxing
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member HUNTING THE WREN ON ST STEPHEN'S DAY
folk dance in the streets
trying to find a ‘fake’ wren  -
old Manx tradition  

I’ve lived here for many years but have never witnessed...

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Categories: bird, boxing day ,
Form: Senryu
Obituary of a moth



                        ...

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Categories: boxing day , death of
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member tin box
A collector of tin boxes in all shape and disarray.
the older the better but the new welcome too.

It started with a house full of buttons...

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Categories: boxing day , confidence,
Form: Free verse
New Years Resolution
My New Year’s resolutions
I made on a cold Boxing Day
Didn’t provide all the solutions
They all slowly faded away.
I’d go to the gym to lose weight
I...

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© David Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boxing day, new year, new years
Form: Rhyme
life is short
Life is short
A day has passed
An hour is gone
A minute is consumed
A second still counts
Months have been washed away by rain

A heartbeat is still beating
Slowly...

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Categories: boxing day, abortion, age, books, boxing
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

So this is Fremont, California
Circa nineteen sixty-nine,
Nice and bit of a tight-knit
Neighborhood, that is fine.

I am a honey tanned Hawaiian
In a nearly all white community,
With...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anti bullying, boxing day ,
Form: Narrative