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Best Cranky Poems

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


Pikes Peak Cranky Critter Confab
Up in Colorado, in the forests of Pikes Peak
A cranky critters conference was held just this week
It was led by a mouse, 3 legs, whiskerless...

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Categories: cranky, animals, cowboy-western, funny, nature,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: cranky, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Mushroom Cloud
Fires at a blue pills lab threw up a cloud
Settling over the town like a great shroud
And this gigantic mushroom 
Created a baby boom
Because all...

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Categories: cranky, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Tramp
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"--- By William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a tramp, 
Far, far away from all human habitats
Away from all prying eyes
Following...

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Categories: cranky, happiness, journey, lonely, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Having Enough-Remembering Thanksgiving
I awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced...

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Categories: cranky, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stagecoach
I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
There were the usual horse collars, clocks and various sundries on display.
Havin' no need fer...

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Categories: cranky, cowboy-western, old, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
He Had a Holloweenie
Under his nose hung a big greenie.
The kids all thought he was a meanie.
He didn't have a hankie.
That's why he was so cranky.
Also, he had...

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Categories: cranky, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Dead Man and the Loud Hen
I shall delete my existence says the dead man
	No more do I breathe	
	No more shall I rant
	Although often I recant

I shall delete all my poems...

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Categories: cranky, children, hilarious, muse,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member It Was One of Those Mornings
It Was One Of Those Mornings


thought it was a good
morning that always went well
I got up to a 
very cranky hubby that
decided not talk or...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cranky, cancer, husband,
Form: Tanka
Write Now : Write Onnnnn !
The challenge was to write and write
Then write and write and write ,  all right !
So I wrote and wrote and wrote , as...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cranky, funnywords, write, sorry, write,
Form: Rhyme
You Said I Was Ugly
You Said I Was Ugly

You said I was ugly, and I don't really give a damn or care
Why did you pick me, don't you know...

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© Theresa Cw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cranky, anger, angst, character, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Limerick Collaboration-Join In-New Additions
If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.

Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad...

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Categories: cranky, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Muse Is a Fair-Weather Friend
When the temperature soars
   My Muse is cranky and cross
Whether in or out of doors
   Meter and rhyme are quite lost

My...

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Categories: cranky, america, muse, poetry, weather,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sick Old Bird: Collaboration
There once was a cranky old parrot
who had all the charms of a ferret.
She went to great ends
to get rid of friends
and now lives in...

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Categories: cranky, humor, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Don'T Poke the Bear
Inspirational beauty, comes to life every spring.
The baby birds in their nest, to their mothers still cling.
The hibernating bear, still asleep in his den.
Will soon...

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Categories: cranky, animal, humor, spring,
Form: Rhyme

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