Best Cobs Poems
The Swan...Upon the lakes they do swim gliding so effortlessly
These species of graceful waterfowl the largest of anatidae family
In their beautiful pure white plumage with elegant long curved necks
Blunt......
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Categories:
cobs, beauty, bird, mystery,
Form:
Light Verse
The Joy of Food...
I should eat healthy, I really should! But life is too short for that. Food, food, food,
it chases away the blues, it brings comfort to the soul. So here is a list of the foods
th......
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Categories:
cobs, food, happy,
Form:
List
Cygnus Inter Nubibus...
“Cygnets usually begin leaving the habitat when they begin to turn their eventual adult coloring. Once the feathers and wings mature (approximately 8-10 months of age) the parents wi......
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Categories:
cobs, daughter, freedom, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen...A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
By Elton Camp
“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city. “We git tired of so much p......
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Categories:
cobs, humorous,
Form:
Prose
Unwoven Memories...I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial q......
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Categories:
cobs, culture, family, farm, happiness,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Stealing Peas...Stealing Peas
all summer, warm-hot and lazy,
the garden grew taller, so much taller
than me. wondered where it came from
all that green life.
I helped papa plant the seeds
my finger deep ......
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Categories:
cobs, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Go Jo, Our Neighborhood Nun...Sister Josephine, our neighborhood nun.
No longer fit for ministry;
although she’s quit the nunnery,
she sits at our day camp nursery.
Go Jo uses every amp of energy
so as to champion or othe......
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Categories:
cobs, children, fun, teacher,
Form:
Verse
Honoring You In Living Color...Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
.
Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
.
Yellow and ......
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Categories:
cobs, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Mother Natures Mastepiece...Mother Nature is an artist!
She really has no peers!
Her masterpiece is, Autumn!
Has been for years and years!
Just pause, and take a conscious look,
at Autumn's scenic view!
Blazing colors, ......
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Categories:
cobs, autumn, beauty, color, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Let's Plant the Field With Corn...By Carolyn V. Crawford AKA Rachel Dunkerque
Let's plant the field again with corn
Like the time in the years when first I was born
When the green of the field filled the early morn
Let's plant ......
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Categories:
cobs, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Tea Time In Leicester...“Ay up me duck” sed me dad to me mam,
“Ah'v gorr’us some cobs and some nice Walkers ham”;
“The market was manic” he continued to speak’,
“I popped up to Linekers' to get fruit for the week”;
He c......
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Categories:
cobs, home, parents,
Form:
Blank verse
The Corn Crib...I've passed this way many a day
and wondered as I strayed;
Who had opened, what had filled
the gap within the crib's dark bay.
The opening small in the wall
at once so spare yet alluring
wit......
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Categories:
cobs, childhood, history, introspection, nostalgia
Form:
Quatrain
A Greek Adonis...Okay my friends now let's just see
Do I have any weaknesses of my own?
Nope, after careful investigation
I find I'm just perfect to the bone
I'm a doggone stunning specimen
Of a *****sapien ......
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Categories:
cobs, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Bigger Better Bigger...More is so much more
More than creation could have to offer
The better we can do
If we meddle and then we tamper
Make it better it will be BIGGER
THERE beneath the muscle mass
The egg yolk re......
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Categories:
cobs, crazy, nature, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Cob and Pen...Elegant is the white swan
Joined for life swimming along
When cobs and pens breed again
Then cygnets swim with them
Date: 1/21/2020
Contest: When and Then
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas......
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Categories:
cobs, life,
Form:
Rhyme