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Best Cricket Poems

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


Premium Member The Cuddling Cricket
It’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...

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Categories: cricket, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Komorebi
i Trees

A kaleidoscope cathedral rustling,
hustling life-light into every thinning limb.
Earth-emblems embalming every rogue
marauding cell in resin. Violent poppies
dripping blood-petals on never-ending war.
Wood knots are eyes,...

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Categories: cricket, imagery, light, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Spider Songs
Blades of grass, wet under foot, insect eyes  
Dusk, offset by the cricket orchestra 
Muted and receding into the trees and bushes,
Tickled by the...

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Categories: cricket, animal, girl, metaphor, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imperceptible
Sol slowly sinks into the pitch of night,
while cricket chirps join bellowing bullfrogs.
The setting sun colors the edge of light
while woodpeckers drum on old hollow...

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Categories: cricket, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stargazer
Under 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity

A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric

In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...

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Categories: cricket, confusion, feelings, life, night,
Form: Prose Poetry



A Love Story
The girl is an ultra-modern scholar, 
Belongs with an upper-middle class family. 
Looking very nice, smart, gets angry suddenly. 
She reads M.A in English at...

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Categories: cricket, culture, deep, emotions, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woodland Path
Fae circles of mushrooms
Lanky yellow toadstools
Firm jelly tot larvae 
Feed from rich stagnant pools.
Fungal disks cling with wanton 
To the grey trunks of trees
Cricket strums...

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Categories: cricket, friendship, inspirational, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sundown In Paradise
My blessing basket is heavy with heaven's gifts,
Tomatoes the size of my fist, eggplants so cute,
And fresh heirloom beans bursting with pride.

The sun, orange on...

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Categories: cricket, faith, , cute,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Faeries
Bracken breached hawthorn hedgerows
hide teeny folk with tiny toes.
Sheer gossamer wings; shy butterflies
Dew-drops lit by dawning skies.

Sandy hair, blue raven locks
Auburn streaks on chestnut stalks
Valley...

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Categories: cricket, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
When the Sun Sets On Me
I wonder where I will be 
when the sun sets on me…
for if I were a flake of snow,
a dying breeze, or autumn leaf...
then I’d...

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Categories: cricket, creation, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Cricket's Song
Refrain of dreams, I gift to you. 
My hum lulls in rhythms deep;
Night chant lifts to heavenly heights
coupled with starry sky’s plume.
My faithful promise kept...

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Categories: cricket, music, nature, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald...

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Categories: cricket, dark, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Trying To Sleep
I am trying to sleep here; can someone let the world know?

Somewhere the pressure cooker whistles, 
Rises in the night air, the smell of pulao...

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Categories: cricket, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Mango Tree
By my red tiled house stands a mango tree
Beneath it I cherish my treasured memories
Where cows merrily roam and cattle graze
As morning sky scintillates in...

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Categories: cricket, memory, youth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Subtle Sounds
Listen to the subtle sounds
surrounding Mother Nature.
And you'll hear water chuckle
as it gurgles over rocks.

Hear the drone of hummingbirds
or the songs of humpback whales.
And the...

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Categories: cricket, beauty, feelings, inspirational, nature,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things