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Best Crate Poems

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


Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crate, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: crate, love,
Form: Free verse
A Box of Truth
I bought a box of truth from a peddler down the street,
even though he told me its veracity might sting.
I handed him a stack of...

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Categories: crate, allegory,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Trick
(THE GHOST)

In the naked eye,
Pure death approaches!

Incredibly hollow, kick the bucket long ago
No, whiff nor smell when “THE GHOST” is around
Abuses the whiteness, in which...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crate, abuse, bullying, death, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Crumb On My Pie Chart
Abusive soul who tormented my heart
I didn’t wait for us to drift apart
     I found inner strength at last
  ...

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Categories: crate, funny, lost love, me,
Form: Limerick



Home Brew
There once was a friend of mine,
Who was famed for making wine.
Her visits were great,
As she brought a crate -
But I lost a week each...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crate, friendship
Form: Limerick
The Dragline
THE DRAGLINE  for Pete Brett 

One hundred foot boom 
 7-½-yard bucket 
The tracks are like 
 Ones on the tracks of a tank
They...

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Categories: crate, family, dance, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boxes and Crates
I have felt the rain
I have bared witness to such horrendous pain
I have died a few times over
I have hidden inside a smile

The fresh scent...

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Categories: crate, heart, introspection, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Le Chateau Indesirable
le château indésirable
(The undesirable Chateau )

I have no body
I am asleep
My head lies in a an old wooden box
My eyes are closed
The world is too...

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Categories: crate, sleep, sorrow,
Form: Light Verse
Word Hoard
They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it...

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Categories: crate, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Flippin' Infestation Alliteration
Similar sounds and letter alliteration are literally leaping and precipitously punctuating the 
perforated pages of my mired, muddled mind.. 
     Making...

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Categories: crate, funnyfun,
Form: Alliteration
Hideaway
I was a runner
fleeing from homespun horrors that
wrapped around my delicacy like a tourniquet

Only a child attempting to bestir
the warrior dormant within;
having no idea the...

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Categories: crate, abuse, beach, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Laughter Falls On Gods Ears:
When Laughter Falls on Gods Ears

Today I was reminded that “GOD still happens”
Despite it all “God still happens” No dogs barking –
On this still solemn...

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Categories: crate, america, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member On Growing Older Than I Am
On Growing Older Than I Am

Alas, this growing older than I am
drained me of the will to search for more
my life consumed incessantly with spam
I...

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Categories: crate, death, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Taking the Cats To the Vet
Cats don't like going to the vet,
In fact, they can get quite upset.
Somehow they just know,
When the crate makes a show,
They instantly begin to fret.

First...

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Categories: crate, anxiety, cat, travel,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs