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Best Cuckoo Poems

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


Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
  ...

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Categories: cuckoo, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape



Premium Member - the Soup Cuckoo -
Jealousy is not the fear of losing
but the feeling that our position is threatened
As wet sand between your toes, unwanted

Sometimes jealousy turns into obsession
There are...

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Categories: cuckoo, angst, feelings, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twisted Goose Goes Cuckoo For Haiku
For P.D's "Going Haiku Crazy" Contest

 
How Many?

going to St. Ives
met folks on that smelly bus
more than I could count

Just Sleep Walking?

Wee Willy Winky
caught outside...

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Categories: cuckoo, funnyold, old,
Form: Haiku
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: cuckoo, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: cuckoo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Roses Are Red Collab-26
These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous.  If you would like to add one of your own...

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Categories: cuckoo, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick
Sossled
Sossled
I wandered as lonely as a dog,
Me pantaloons were full of frogs
Slurping suds while on the grog,
Dog paddling with the ducks,

I thought I knew her...

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Categories: cuckoo, adventure,
Form: Ballade
My Love Is Real
A pre-lit Christmas tree sparkles the entrance 

Monet, Van Gough, and Wassily Kandinsky prints 

adorn the walls of her sitting room

a dozen painted roses sit...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cuckoo, love,
Form: Free verse
Whisper Sweet Nothings
Nothing is like riding this tornado,
wild and twisting, away that we go.
Oh, it is so magical, this adventure,
whipping around, an enchanted blur,
we are more than...

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Categories: cuckoo, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buckden
“Daisy Hill”
a garden to please
distant,  yet ever near
         in splendid hue.
Yet here now
the chill of winter’s
wrath,...

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Categories: cuckoo, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux

Jan,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cuckoo, halloween, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Spontaneity
Even as a child, how I used to enjoy
A simple stroll through the woods 
When innocent instincts ruled my heart
And ran after every call from...

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Categories: cuckoo, beauty, childhood, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandfather S Clock
~ Grandfather's Clock ~
 
My old grandfather had a clock
It wasn’t a grandfather clock
A clock it was that went tick tock
It sent me mad grandfather’s...

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Categories: cuckoo, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Enough With the Chitter Already
As if it’s not enough that I must share
this little stump of wood with you, my friend,
I have to HEAR you! How much must I...

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Categories: cuckoo, animalsbird, bird,
Form: Personification
The Itch
I've a growing b-tch 
of a persistent itch
plaguing a part down under
in a well-hidden spot
sweaty and hot
tearing my sanity asunder

I long for a table
legs sturdy...

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Categories: cuckoo, funny
Form: Rhyme

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