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Best Canister Poems

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


Premium Member Kick the Can
Please,
  Feel free ...
    Kick me down the street
      Like a dented can - label ripped,...

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Categories: canister, abuse, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



You Belong To You
What have you done to us my child?
I tore my body to bring you here
He wetted his shirt with sweat to ink your books
23 years...

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Categories: canister, courage,
Form: Free verse
Auburn Haired Beauty
Crouching down, I'm foxhole bound,
crawling forward I seen it, its around.
I ducked my head, while covering one eye,
as soon as the enemies flare lit up...

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Categories: canister, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Euphoric Knighthood
I was climbing up a ladder on a day
with a cool breeze purring through the roof gutters.
The wind would dip and run inside the open...

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Categories: canister, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through the Ages What I Remember
Magazines and jewelry 
Nothing shows your age faster
I see a broach and think “That is from the 40’s or 50’s.”
Mink stoles were from the 30’s...

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Categories: canister, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



The Master Carpenter
I have spent much of my entire life it seems somehow

Cluttering shadows walls with window box residue inside these rooms....

Considering now the hands of times...

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Categories: canister, faith, hope, introspection, love
Form: I do not know?
The Master Carpenter
Having spent much of my entire life it seems somehow cluttering a shadows 
Walls with window box residue: inside these rooms considering now the hands...

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Categories: canister, baby, baptism, father, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Into a Dark Raging Storm, Tempest and Hail
Into A Dark Raging Storm, Tempest And Hail


Into a dark raging storm, tempest and hail
alas, sadly all was to be to no avail.
Twelve pounders broke...

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Categories: canister, conflict, history, prayer, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Furniture and Kitchen Utensils
Someone said I could probably write
About furniture and kitchen utensils
And still put a funny twist on my poem
So I'll try to live up to my...

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Categories: canister, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Then Hue Lure My Being
Fill my craving with your zesty rind
In the mist of my longing, come splashing
Ingest my inn with your piquant smiles

Will you rain like dew for...

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Categories: canister, happiness
Form: Verse
Getting Back On Track
Getting Back On Track

You can’t be tying a string around your finger
Every time you have to remember
Why it is you went into the kitchen,
Or what...

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Categories: canister, character, confusion, emotions, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Mom's Apple Pie
The sparkling goodness imprisons an autumn sun
And takes me back to the tender days when I was very young
When I'd help my Mama pluck them...

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Categories: canister, childhood, food, nostalgiame, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Cauldron Bubbles
The cauldron bubbles
With blackest of black
Boiling over the rim 
Thick and tar-like liquid
As putrid fumes fill the air
It gags you, chokes you
Making you wonder
What is...

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Categories: canister, hope, life
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday
I see, the froth of a breaking wave,
Wonder, if it is the icing on a cake,

I vision, a shooting star flash by,
How, I wish it...

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Categories: canister, birthday, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Plip Plop Plip Plop Pickle Playing Clock
Penny dropped circular clocks on carved out emblematic wisdom cones. Be careful if it rains coal dust as radioactive drones, mobile phones, and teapots too...

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Categories: canister, april, august, autumn, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs