Best Carton Poems
Below are the all-time best Carton poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of carton poems written by PoetrySoup members
Heart Song On a Milk Carton. (Reposted)Wont you find me here?
Drifting in an expanse of swirling storm
Outstreched fingers graze debris...
recklessly...
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Categories:
carton, introspection, loss, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
My Country 'Tis of TheeYou, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...
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Categories:
carton, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Window PainThree states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a...
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Categories:
carton, addiction, anger, anxiety, child
Form:
Haibun
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ...
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...
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Categories:
carton, america, history, math, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated ChefThough I ain't a cordon bleu chef as the title might imply,
I can still whip up gourmet fare in the blink of an eye!
And to...
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Categories:
carton, food, funny, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet ToothWhen I look at you
I lose control
I know I shouldn't
But I can't say no
Just a taste of sweetness
Upon my lips
Its belly fat and expanding hips
One...
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Categories:
carton, addiction, funny, humor, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Dewberry Cobbler"Caleb, go fetch me some dewberries from the fence row," Momma says,
as I polish off my Saturday morning breakfast. "I'll make us a cobbler."...
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Categories:
carton, growing up,
Form:
Haibun
Unconditional Love ConditionsIn times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why
What matters most seems to be toilet paper
Loops and loops of the stuff and...
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Categories:
carton, community,
Form:
Free verse
The Third GenderThe crazy befouling animalistic urges
Life beyond character
Carton of sulphuric acid
A calm third gender walks out
A person called Chex
Female, Male and Chex
Chex are vemonous
A creature or...
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Categories:
carton, science fictiongender,
Form:
I do not know?
My Mother-In-LawMy Mother-In-Law has passed
so she is no longer here.
Mixed feelings I have
but a little less...
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Categories:
carton, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Pieces of Eternity (Seasons Finale)Maybe it’s unacceptable
Live a life capable of a true fable
True friends never end
But take you back to where it all began
But...
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Categories:
carton, death, family, friendship, lost
Form:
Free verse
Life Lesson: Tale of Two Cities - When Villains Prove HeroesA barrister tottering through alleys of London,
Alcohol-shamed when espied;
Slinking home at four in the morning,
To a pillow of tears never dried.
Sidney...
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Categories:
carton, addiction, confusion, hero, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
Slip of the TongueI was a city born and city bred young fellow,
whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar.
Oh yes I had seen grass, but out...
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Categories:
carton, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
TomboySworn to secrecy, she told me it had been a long time..
as we sat swinging in a hammock in the late day sun.
'What., are you...
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Categories:
carton, 8th grade, adventure, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Who Stole My Piece of ChickenI fried up a platter of chicken,
And served it fer supper last night.
The family ate all but one piece,
Which I saved for my snack tonight.
When...
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Categories:
carton, food, funnyme,
Form:
Rhyme