Best Drawstring Poems


Things With Strings

...THINGS WITH STRINGS

Spider's web, strings of stars,
a weaver's loom, and old guitars.
Balls of yarn, and DNA,
string bikini, and crochet.

Cats cradle, spools of thread,
Tails on kites, and ......

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drawstring, celebration, fun, humor, joy,
Form: List

A Struggling Poet

...they're not speaking to me now, the Muses; 
they're being stubborn, 
witholding information, like beetle-browed accomplices - 
their mouths pulled tight as drawstring purses. 
they sit on their t......

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Categories: drawstring, angst, on writing and
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Silly Sack

...You’ve got to have a certain knack
when opening your Silly Sack;
the beasts within will soon attack
with no hold barred, no turning back.

Now these are not the monstrous sort,
it’s just that t......

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drawstring, children, nonsense, silly,
Form: Quatrain

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Making a Difference

...making a difference
                        
 
Our children should be treasured
To be loved ,cuddled and happy
Not beaten , abused or raped,
becoming someone else's pleasures.

They should ne......

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Categories: drawstring, abuse, children, devotion, kids,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member This Year's Champion, Collaboration With Patricia Creswell

...It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, li......

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Categories: drawstring, childhood, confidence, games, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member This Years Champion

...This Year’s Champion

It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my......

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Categories: drawstring, childhood,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Marbles

...I remember shooting marbles during recess time.
There were puries, tiny worlds of milky blindedness.
Big heavy steelies, bearings from salvaged, derelict machines,
Hematite cores of some new known......

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Categories: drawstring, age, childhood, conflict, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member A Life of Leaves

...My friend and I were talking about the weather and how it relates to his business. He said, "This time of year, my life is all about leaves".  I said, "That would make a great poem title".  He inform......

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Categories: drawstring, america, autumn, business, friendship,
Form: Narrative

Illest of Reasons

...Four joints excercising their right
to tense up
Oh how the Pancreas aides in 
such a drawstring.

Conscience kidnapped for a spell
while these fierce, 
No, cowardly beings
earn their way into......

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Categories: drawstring, confusion, health, people
Form: Free verse

The Jacket

...It still hangs there,
		     there on the back of my door.

“Wa d’y lev ut thur?” I can hear you say 
in that Chatterley-esque accent of yours,
rippling through me.

“It’s so I can smell you” ......

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Categories: drawstring, lost love, love, love
Form: Personification

Burlap and Satin

...Burlap and satin went to the dance
It was held at the old Fisher Barn
Burlap wore a fine Gunny sack
Adorned with a drawstring of yarn

Satin sported a shimmery weave
Trimmed with buttons of gol......

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© Kitty Lou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drawstring, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Merciful One

...I am but one sinner, but the greatest of them all...

The worlds biggest ocean could never hold my sins and if you tied the world up into a
drawstring bag, it would make no difference; my sins wou......

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Categories: drawstring, devotion, faith, forgiveness, happiness,
Form: Bio

Premium Member Silly Sack

...You’ve got to have a certain knack
when opening your Silly Sack
for the beasts within
will attack to win
with no hold barred, no turning back.

Now these are not the monstrous sort,
it’s just ......

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drawstring, children, nonsense, silly,
Form: Limerick

Venetian Blinds...

...Levels horizontally fixed
angles of light are tightly fit
geometrically spaced slats
fragmenting our perception flat

Narrowed slits squinted view
awkward sight for most in lewd
unaware of dra......

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Categories: drawstring, life, people, social,
Form: Free verse

Spellbinder

...........jiggle clumsily; post halter-
behind braids- busy in evacuation of the cool pool water,
like a carefree bull in the field.
Her eyes sharp and cruel, unyielding to the faulter.
Fixating on......

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Categories: drawstring, angel, black love,
Form: Rhyme
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