Get Your Premium Membership

Best Crunches Poems


Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
...I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
   inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.

M......

Continue reading...
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crunches, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Gold Fever
...Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have been scrubbed clean
By pros......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Frozen
...Life is frozen, an endless winter night
My heart, deep inside, pumps slower now
My bones are brittle, as the cold encroaches
Locked in a sheath of frigid ice

Frost runs down the window panes
O......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, analogy, depression, sad, winter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Leaves In Season
...Luscious leaves brush against my face,
pulsing veins deep enough to trace
time with a wind gust embrace.

Maroon, copper, gold they dangle
glistening to sunset's angle
with zeal of wind chime's......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, autumn, child, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Muppets In the Soup - Join In
...Write a limerick of your own about a Muppet. 
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me, 
and I find it appropriate, I'll add it on. ;-)


Sesame Street's Count von Count is dress......

Continue reading...
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crunches, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor......

Continue reading...
© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crunches, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member - Cold Winter Blues -
...Cold blue sky and water are frozen hard as iron
Our noses get stuffy it needs a little need lube
Lovers curled up on a bench, lined with the finest fur
Drifting emotions with romantic snow crystal......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, beauty, snow, winter,
Form: Acrostic
A Cup of Tea
...A Cup Of Tea

A cup of tea is a gift unique
In every cup it stands supreme
In restaurants, hotels, bazaars and homes
It’s a great dose for relaxing bones
Historical demand from ancient times
Light an......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member mY cAT
... 

My cat crunches her chunky canned food,
My cat crawls and creeps, curious-   and shrewd;
My cat chatters and croons, so cheerful and charming,
My cat is clever and captivating, ca......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, cat, nursery rhyme,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Nightmare
...Curled in the fetal position, snug and warm in the bed under the fluffy down
comforter dreaming as day breaks.  Then suddenly a storm brews and explodes
through the large double-paned window li......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, imagination, weather,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Winter Walk
...Warm clothing in mystifying layers
Portrait painted by mist and light
Naked branches catch the sun
Ice crunches underfoot  
Noisy crows protest
Breath ghostly white  
Squirrels chatter
Head ho......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, life, nature
Form: Nonet
Caterpillar Dreams
...CATERPILLAR: 

Sweet, moist, musky earth pervades all of my senses 
In safe darkness, beneath this leaf, my cool canopy 
I have no wants as I slumber here in contentment 
I am humbly grateful, a......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, nature, dream, autumn, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It is to be
...Staring into the stratospheric abyss 
Cumulus clouds swiftly drift along.  
As I stand at a dusty precipice,  
The white-hot heat of the sun beating down,  
Microscopic gravel crunches beneat......

Continue reading...
© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crunches, dark, emotions, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Walk in the Woods
...Dear LORD, I contemplate Your greatness
I am in awe of Your majesty
The exquisite detail in all things
To live in Your powerful harmony

As I walk in the November woods
Where tree limbs have be......

Continue reading...
Categories: crunches, appreciation, autumn, prayer, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Krampus
...Beware the wrath of the Northern Polar boogie man, 
The Anti-Clause, a legendary beast of nightmarish voracity,
From folklore mythology, a dark creature of demonic prowess,
Lurks in the hidden sha......

Continue reading...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crunches, christmas, fantasy, holiday, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry