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Best Buzzer Poems

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


Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: buzzer, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



The Visit
Go ahead, you freaking coward, I thought. You drove all this way, with your new 6" GPS. Now you’re a bowl of jello who can't...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buzzer, best friend, death, first
Form: Narrative
Just Plain Wrong
people stood behind the glass 
staring at him with gnashing teeth 
intent upon his death.
He saw red, angry eyes absent of all
Thought except vengeance,
Yet, in...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buzzer, angst
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Hockey Gold
Going out on a limb! :)


Yee haw, woo hoo and holy crap
We beat the U.S. by crickey
It's Canada's game so it's only right
Forever ingrained in...

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Categories: buzzer, emotions, sports,
Form: Quatrain
It's Not Over Until It's Over
it's not over until it's over until God has His say
and it's not what it looks like until God has His way

when you look at...

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Categories: buzzer, angst, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Basketball
Behind the scenes
Always wanting to win
Scoring
Kangaroo hops
Exciting buzzer beater
Tough sport
Basic dribbling
Always exciting
Last chance to win
Losing streaks....

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Categories: buzzer, basketball, career, friendship, high
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice
“The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice”



In the land of the dirty politician
Steely resolve was borne bidding
farewell to thinly veiled conceit and division
that particular brand of...

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Categories: buzzer, courage, freedom, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse
Not To Overthink
The light evening meal
Served under moon and stars,
Flickering candlelights whilst
Writing our memoirs.

Classical music; 
Beauty to my ears,
Gazing up to Venus, Mars,
Thinking biospheres. 

Accidentally tapping me...

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Categories: buzzer, food, friendship love, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Pecos Bill
we bury the past like but not with dread
wounded hearts triaged and on the mend
we bandage the cuts, scratches and mars
slowly they heal with just...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buzzer, imagination, introspection
Form: Couplet
Carp Fishing In Winter
Why do I do it, It’s hard to explain
This obsession that’s driving me slowly insane
The dark hours seem endless, the boredom intense
You would think at...

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Categories: buzzer, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eddie Claimed To Be a Cowboy - With Video Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-KFwPNkS6U 


Eddie was a braggart,
At least we thought as much.
His lower lip was loaded, 
A three finger dip of snuff…
My mind said, “I think not.”

And...

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Categories: buzzer, cowboy-western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Children's Christmas
UUUUF…the mailman taps on the door,
Plop, Plop as the cards drop on the floor
roooooommm runs the vacuum cleaner
Oh, there’s mighty ringing of the buzzer
	
Come buddies,...

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Categories: buzzer, children, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Basketball of Poetry
Ball moving around
Aiming at the basket so round
Shots made, near or far
Keeper of the ball, holding a jar
Endless thoughts of poetry
Throwing the ball in words...

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Categories: buzzer, emotions, feelings, friendship, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Greenbach
A 16 year old apprentice 
Fresh to working underground
Miners telling tragic stories
Of bodies never found .
Greenbach was a huge man 
Working only in his boots...

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Categories: buzzer, funny,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Coffee Time At Memorial
COFFEE TIME AT MEMORIAL

Memory-of on lips and gums.
Colgate’s sweetness still coating the tongue, 
I am awash with morning coffee

Just swallowing, that basic act,
No easy task...

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Categories: buzzer, sick, , memorial,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs