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Best Bucket Poems

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


She Collected Sea Shells, I Collected Sand - Repost
She collected sea shells, I collected sand

She collected sea shells,
I collected sand
She searched for the perfect one
I reached down my hand

I carried a bucket
A basket...

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Categories: bucket, beach, fun, love, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: bucket, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can You Spare a Teardrop
I cried for so long, so many nights,
and now no more tears can drop,
I'm all out, do you have some to spare,
cause you know once...

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Categories: bucket, cry, emotions, feelings, how
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pretty Flower In the Deep Woods
VINEYARDS of HAPPINESS          ---------------------      GARDEN of SORROW

There is no greater Happiness,-----------when-----------Pulling...

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Categories: bucket, beautiful, depression, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grandeur of Fall

Red, orange and yellow fill the valley
Like a bucket of paint, spilled on the trees
Water reflects autumn's grand finale
With colorful leaves, waving in the breeze

The...

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Categories: bucket, autumn, beauty,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Chocolate Fountain
Chocolate Fountain Abuse- for the lover 

How easily I forget I'm allergic to chocolate
I want to dip the exquisite kosher in a Spanish brandy
Sweet, sweet,...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bucket, abuse, addiction, america, betrayal,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member A Place Called Beautiful
There is a place called beautiful nestled deep in my mind's eye
Gingham curtains crisply pressed frame periwinkle summer sky
Brass kettle on the old gas stove...

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Categories: bucket, beautiful, family, grandmother, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Because
I was a fool.

I was a fool searching for reasons why.

Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles

As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven...

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Categories: bucket, dream, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carissa's Love
 I know what it feels like to be adored beyond compare.
To be loved unconditionally just for being myself.
To have that special one want to...

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Categories: bucket, dedication, devotion, granddaughter, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: bucket, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
A Beautiful Day
Bright eyes,
blue skies,
it's a beautiful day!

"Let's go, Mama!" her cheer,
down the tall slide, no fear.
Twisting, bumping, "this is fun"
one more bend then it's done.
from the...

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Categories: bucket, child, daughter, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whitewashing the Fence
I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bucket, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Clown At the Abyss
Italian restaurant; pasta and wine - red, like the eyes of a bat,
Screeching from a cave, dark as the eyes of a snowman,
Coal plucked from...

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Categories: bucket, allegory, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wake Up Oh Africa
With the heavy load you suffer
a substance not needed
yet drags you
cushioning your efforts
and deterring your pace, forgetting that
the Train is already moving
with passengers determined
for this...

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Categories: bucket, africa, dark,
Form: Epic
Premium Member God Gave You a Second Chance
God Gave You a Second Chance
 Not ready to leave this world with unfinished business determining the souls color; you’re on borrowed time! Prayers to...

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Categories: bucket, hope, husband, inspirational, wife,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs