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Best Cigarette Poems

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


Premium Member The Cigarette
Empty pack - no cigarettes,
but another pack has one.
Should she smoke it now?
Cigarette stained fingers
stroked the tube.

She teased her mouth with it,
unlit, but lighter reachable,
calming...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cigarette, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cigarette, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Pretty Poet
Where Have All The Pretty Poets Gone? 

A real poet are you, charismatic over everything you serve
Showcasing, a rainbow that folds the perfect worldwide perspective
I'm...

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Categories: cigarette, angel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
You Are, I Am
open your doors
close all the windows
sleeping's such a bore
suffocate it with pillows

psh, i'm not hellbent
shut your mouth
it's called character development
WOOPS. broke routine again
and the poem's...

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Categories: cigarette, absence, beautiful, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crack Like Fissures
To The Brink For The Ink    Crack Like Fissures 


Another page scarred with ink.   Upon her page, I see red...

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Categories: cigarette, angst, beauty, dedication,
Form: I do not know?



I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3
"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I...

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Categories: cigarette, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
Premium Member 101 Poets
101  POETS

I want to thank 101 poets, when words have no limit.
All 101 spots full of flowing imagery and spirit.
Nathan Dilts my #1~writing for...

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Categories: cigarette, celebration, community, dedication, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaves of the Dead
Leaves of the Dead

Les feuilles mortes 



They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my...

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Categories: cigarette, french, imagery, music, paris,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: cigarette, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Chopped Iii - Humor
i narrate me own story in a fake english accent. the bloody typewriter is 
broken, it can't capitalize. i'm out of coins for the heater. i can...

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Categories: cigarette, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Genie In a Gin Bottle
Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace...

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Categories: cigarette, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
My Addiction To Your Love Was Worse Than Any Substance Because Nobody Told Me Love's Homicidal
 x You,
the one who hurts me.
 x You,
the one who chains me.
 x You,
the one who controls me like a puppet.
 x You,
the one...

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Categories: cigarette, abuse, addiction, girlfriend, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Red Rose of the Moulin Rouge
I awaken; the darkened skies my alarm clock
I reek of whiskey, scotch and pastis
Tumbling out of bed, I reach for a cigarette
The dusk harkens as...

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Categories: cigarette, rose,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Kids: Funny, Poor, and Sweet-F
We loved the lollipops, cracker jacks, and Holloway candy sticks.               ...

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Categories: cigarette, beauty, candy, child, kid,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Loosening the Air Bag
Slipping into my silver-gray SUV
Nicknamed  " Sly Buster Cruiser”
I speed off down the rocky, off-highway road.
Twisting and reeling like my wired mind,
windows down, sunroof...

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Categories: cigarette, adventure,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs