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Best Boy Poems

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


Premium Member Boy Oh Boy and a Girl
I wish to claim
My boyness
My yesterday sillyness
Innocent shyness
My crinkled nose grininess
That hide and seekiness
Spin the bottle 
kind of geekiness 

Getting caught 
My hand in the...

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Categories: adventure, boy, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme



My Little Soldier Boy
Gary, you are my little soldier boy,
who died on Veteran's Day. ('83)
My sunny, golden-haired soldier boy,
that I still miss in every way.

You had just turned...

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Categories: child, death, remember, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Beautiful Brown Eyed Boy
He was skipping along, swinging his arms and laughing
At what I don't know.
His grandmother, lagging a few steps behind, was laughing at him I suppose.
And...

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Categories: black african american, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dream Boy
My favorite verse from THE soft rock song of my youth
Hit song of 1969 by the Carpenters:

(They Long To Be) Close To You
  ...

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Categories: boy, for him, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burger Boy
Burger boy hangs out
at the A&W
Spare change for burgers 
he sometimes has two

He chats up the girls
imagines he is cool
Making up tall tales 
but girls...

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Categories: childhood, devotion, loneliness, boy,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Avi, Oh Avi
Oh Avi, Avi
  Sometimes, with my eyes closed
    I see you dance
      A dervish, whirling, like...

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Categories: boy, dance, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Song, It Is For You
This song, it is for you
Because my heart is singing
All that I feel is true
The happiness you’re bringing

Because my heart is singing
The sun is burning...

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Categories: boy, boyfriend, joy, love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Slang Footles for Male Names: Part 3
Always Prepared

Ready 
Freddy

The Untamed

Feral
Ferril

What’s in Frankie’s Pockets?

Frankie’s
hankies

Patriotic Guy

Yankee
Frankie

Of the highest Quality

Fraser’s
razors

Small Eater

Grazer
Frazer

The Warlock

Pagan
Fagin

The Brilliant One

Star Glow
Fargo

Something’s About to Happen to Him

Herald
Gerald

Poet

The bard
Gerard

The Mimic

Parrot
Garret

Who Needs Pudding...

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Categories: boy,
Form: Footle
Rap God
Steps up to the mic and loses his cool
acts like a fool, way too cool for school
flunked out twice 
wasn't raised to be nice 
but...

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Categories: addiction, boy, confidence, rap,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Missing My Little Boys
My babies have all gone,
They've grown and left the nest,
Spreading out their wings to fly,
Upon life's thrilling quest.

The years flew by so quickly.
Babies turned into...

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Categories: boy, love, nostalgia, son,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Brody
Brody

I bought two new books for you today my sweet boy.
The Wizard of Oz and the Jungle book should bring joy.

I'm very proud of how...

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Categories: 2nd grade, books, boy,
Form: Couplet
Little Toy Soldiers
Little Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to  see age twenty four
None of them even  know what they're fighting for
Little...

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Categories: boy, goodbye, peace, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Show Me What Life Is
I move my hurtful head and stare forlorn
Over my non-existing boundary,
Where past is seen and future laughs decayed.
Here language is an unwelcome guest,
In stillness awkward,...

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Categories: abuse, boy, child, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things