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Best Bread And Butter Poems

Below are the all-time best Bread And Butter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bread and butter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Getting What I Really Wanted
I wanted
peanut butter and jam
But settled
for bread and butter
I wanted a puppy
but got a hamster instead
I wanted you to live forever
Until I wished you were...

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Categories: bread and butter, abuse, bullying, desire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Old House
The old house, built in 1895, was the best of weathered antiques having hugged North Rogers Street from days of horses to days of horse-powered...

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Categories: bread and butter, home, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Poet Stamp 2011
This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise...

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Categories: bread and butter, happiness,
Form: Free verse
What Is Life
What is life?
Life is just eating, sleeping and making sex
to show your identity
that, you  have strength enough
to produce kid, to earn your bread and...

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Categories: bread and butter, feelings, humanity, meaningful, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Think Again
Think Again

I think of stuff all day
I think of stuff all night
Sometimes I think stupid
Sometimes I think bright
But I never think it wrong
Cos I am...

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Categories: bread and butter, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



O' Dear Mother
She feels thirsty
when we need water,
She feels hungry 
when we need bread and butter,
She feels happy
when we fly to our goal,
She stays nice
when we pursue...

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Categories: bread and butter, mother,
Form: Lyric
Friday Night Dinners
Friday Night Dinners

Waiting in line
Table for five
Peanuts on floor
Country songs blaring
Crazy loud voices
Time to dine
Bottle of beer
Bread and butter
Petite filet rare
Loaded baked potato
Extra sour cream
Crisp...

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© Miss Sassy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bread and butter, family, food,
Form: Free verse
Just a Little Bit of Sugar
From your two transparent blue oceans
Where the sky has sprinkled
Its two handfuls of dream
Wind is wild like school children
From that laughter into my dark corners
Can...

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Categories: bread and butter, desire, dream, moon, ocean,
Form: Lyric
A Yorkshire Tale
Yorkshire, 1914
I patch mended her copper saucepan,
Edged an axe, two cleavers and a knife.
I did all the jobs that were required.
By this comely young farmer’s...

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Categories: bread and butter, imagination, passion, romantic, world
Form: Rhyme
Giving Thanks On Thanksgiving Day
Let’s Give Thanks This Thanksgiving Day!.

During this time known as
 Thanksgiving Day.
Let’s all give thanks and pray.

A prayer of thanks for 
everything God has given.
He’s...

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Categories: bread and butter, america, appreciation, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Electricity Car-Show Me the Funny Part Two
I bought a used electric car, and not coz I’ve gone green
For there were better reasons for obtaining that machine.

I figured weekday mornings I could...

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Categories: bread and butter, humorous, car, green, cousin,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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Categories: bread and butter, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Puddings
Jam roly poly, treacle sponge
And sticky toffee pudding head the top of my list
But apple pie, rhubarb crumble
Or a decent cheesecake are hard to resist

Banana...

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Categories: bread and butter, food,
Form: List
Premium Member Pickles & Tickles Limericks
"Bread and Butter"

Fickle pickles soaked in barrels of brine,
Along with drowned rats in vinegar’s wine,
Public non the wiser,
I am your advisor,
Take Tetanus when on ...

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Categories: bread and butter, funny
Form: Limerick
The Masters
h when i was truth i fell
drew boy i grew up
still def still be a cre4ators tool
wipers for the pain tears drop
fear not, fret no...

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Categories: bread and butter, christian, courage, dad, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs