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Best Crow Poems

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


Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: crow, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: crow, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: crow, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sadly Musing Life and Love
I sit alone as evening claims the day,
with common crow my only confidant.
I watch the sun sink slowly in the bay
while musing life and love...

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Categories: crow, lonely, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The Older I Get
I once heard the whisper of falling snow,
saw a spark in the eye of a coal-black crow,
felt the power and awe of a swift river's...

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Categories: crow, allegory, angst, health
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crow, analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Remarks of a Prig
I'm hearing rumors that are easy to believe
but none of them give me reason to grieve
You've been telling people their poetry sucks
Words from your mouth...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crow, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Frozen-A Collaboration With Shane Cooper
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.

The howling wind that claws at life, 
The forest shrouded in endless white.

Skeletal ice hangs...

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Categories: crow, autumn, halloween, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member How Do You Like Them Apples
Coming from Texas, I knew he’d be loud
And soon I discovered that two is a crowd
Is that the privy? he asked of my house
When he...

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Categories: crow, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape of Dark - A Murder of Crows
murders rise on nights like these
                   crows...

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Categories: crow, angst, animal, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagination
A muddy toad 'ribbits,'  
before leaping away -
to which I ponder,
if fairy tales were true,
who's 'Prince Charming.' would you be?

I smile,
in the quiet pond's reflection.
I can see...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crow, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Bedtime Story
Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun...

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Categories: crow, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form: Couplet
Scarecrow
Blackened Crow circle
  frightened   hardly
     -plucking nightly
the fruits of her harvest

pitchforked hollow eyes watch
   behind the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crow, solitude,
Form: Personification
We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them...

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Categories: crow, slavery, society, truth, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Promise of the Pomegranates
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
where a heart is free and the sky is wide
where time is slow like a rivers flow
and the crow...

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Categories: crow, hope, nature, seasons, symbolism,
Form: Lyric

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