Best Dunk Poems
Below are the all-time best Dunk poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dunk poems written by PoetrySoup members
Loosening the Air BagSlipping into my silver-gray SUV
Nicknamed " Sly Buster Cruiser”
I speed off down the rocky, off-highway road.
Twisting and reeling like my wired mind,
windows down, sunroof...
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Categories:
dunk, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Future Superstar
The world welcomes a newborn baby boy.
To the mother and father, he is a bundle of joy.
Right now of course, he is so...
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Categories:
dunk, baby, basketball, football, future,
Form:
Rhyme
I Remember WhenI suppose I'm revealin' my age as I compose this little ditty,
But as I compare costs today with yesteryear I exclaim, "What a pity!"
Gas cost...
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Categories:
dunk, humorous, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Rough Roads To RoamThe flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes...
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Categories:
dunk, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
Cheers -Please Join In the CollaborationI had an old auntie called Mable
Who could drink men under the table
She’d tell folks of her gout
Sup up six pints of stout -
then...
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Categories:
dunk, drink, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Contest BattlesCONTEST BATTLES
I am a child in weaving poetry,
trying and trying my arms of bravery.
Hundreds, I posted to jail your eyes
to cease a moment; raise your...
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Categories:
dunk, feelings, freedom, poetry, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Big EgoHe's got a big ego,
he keeps offending people,
he scoops the same scoop,
and round and round we loop,
until the bubble pops
and the world sees him flop,
reject...
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Categories:
dunk, hip hop, life, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
Facing the HurtTo ride the sea is a pleasure and a curse
as huddle of gulls, starfish dart from nowhere
enchanting frolic on breakers, they traverse
into buoyant laps with...
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Categories:
dunk, courage, fear, hurt,
Form:
Ottava rima
Pet Rocks Don'T SnorePet Rocks Don't Snore
Every ten years or so I rewrap my pet rock
In tin foil to keep it safe and secure
Then place it back in...
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Categories:
dunk, abuse, conflict, confusion, culture,
Form:
Free verse
It's Only Six Months 'Til ChristmasOnly six months 'til Christmas...
Yes, just six months to go-
I'd best start making lists,
Buying bottles for' ‘rellies' who like to get pissed
And scouring...
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Categories:
dunk, celebration, christmas, funny, humor,
Form:
Verse
Racking, Fracking, Frickers, DickersRacking, fracking, fricker dickers -
there it goes again stirring all my inner jitters;
my pc, tablet, phone and friends
blank screens locked immovable in place again
while...
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Categories:
dunk, allusion, analogy, internet,
Form:
Rhyme
A Reflected WomanI don’t have a blueprint,
just this smudged version
of what she would look like,
an impression in a shop windowpane,
just as the light catches her in...
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Categories:
dunk, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
MadeMADE
of sock puppets, dunk tanks and bumper cars.
socks with holes, holes for heads
all wet, stinky in fact
picture the bumper cars
bumping, bruising
each choosing their own way
headed...
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Categories:
dunk, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Free Throw ClerihewShaquille O'Neal
plays basketball with zeal
can dunk without leaving the ground
but his free throws hardly go down...
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Categories:
dunk, people,
Form:
Clerihew
To Tame a ShrewTO TAME A SHREW
Tunke Tunke Tunke
I dragged her along and into the trunk
Clunk clunk clunk,
I hear some screaming from the Tunke
I drove away, in...
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Categories:
dunk, abuse, bird, dream, horse,
Form:
Ekphrasis