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Best Firecracker Poems

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


Premium Member Firecracker Plant-The Sound of Color
Millions of magnificent miniature marvels,
shoulder to shoulder, sharing your showy shrub
as rich red rumblings rise from your racy petals.
Like sounds of cymbals you slice the...

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Categories: firecracker, color, firework, flower, red,
Form: Alliteration



Asteroid Gravity Graced
Asteroid


You were out of this world 
named for the Perseids
the meteor 
that exploded in two striking the blue 
between the sun and the moon 
the...

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Categories: firecracker, dog, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Inspirations
In a moment of understandable frustration with me,
My wife demanded to know what I really believed in.
I thought for a minute, tear glands filling,
"The essential...

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Categories: firecracker, father, inspiration, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lemon Drop Licks
Suspended like a lemon drop
 on the tongue of night
the moon melts 
on the clarinets keys

Haze, ever present,
 on this humid September eve,
blurs the edges...

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Categories: firecracker, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She
^she_

^she_  had a love/hate relationship with food
she only fed with her eyes,
i was a sparkless firecracker 
and spoke English like i hated it.

not the...

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Categories: firecracker, body,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dear Dale, So Loved
Dear Dale, so loved were you
that even now, thirty-nine years later,
you live inside the dreams
of your siblings. I suppose this to be true
since I, at...

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Categories: firecracker, brother,
Form: Free verse
Party Time
It was a party for the ages
Everyone and their friends were there
When half way through the festivities
A loud explosion burst in the air!

Cy Cosis yelled,...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: firecracker, parody, word play,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Outside the Bounds of Sister Cecilia
OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF SISTER CECILIA

the best firecracker 
otherworldly seven hues
hiss, cackle, kaboom

Yes, dear ones, I want to own a pen that produces perfect penmanship,...

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Categories: firecracker, poets, writing,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Emptying
Jails-asylums are bleeding out because of naivety.
Now the unhinged mad dogs are working out their kinks.
On the neckbones of society.

Nowhere is safe for your sons...

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Categories: firecracker, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Treats
Morning time...waking with sweets in my mouth
cinnamon carameltmarshmellowed out
breakfast cereal Sugar Dynamite
secret prize inside,bestows x-ray sight

Sugar shock,tooth rot,'60s psycotropic lollipops
an infinite selection @ Treat's Sweetshop
its...

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Categories: firecracker, imagination, candy, morning,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Autumn Oak Tree
Bright firecracker fanning in bloom

snuggle down its leaves makes me feel gloom.







Nov. 19, 2014    11.20pm
-a try of crystalline poem...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: firecracker, nature,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Fire-Crackers
Firecracker - a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise.

Firethe Southern sergeant shouts to...

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Categories: firecracker, death, war,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Love and the Chinese New Year
Dragon was hatched in the year of the Dragon, on the Chinese Zodiac.
But, then so was I. Yep folks, that makes me so very, amazingly...

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Categories: firecracker, adventure, fantasy, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Firecrackers
Freedom for Americans did not come silently.
It came like firecracker pops, with guns and canon blast!
Rebel shouts would shake the world, and a glorious past
Echoes...

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Categories: firecracker, america, patriotic,
Form: Acrostic
Dear Son
Too big for his britches, too small for his cap
Just the right size for mama's lap
He keeps me in stitches, the things he will say
"Oh...

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Categories: firecracker, love, my child, silly,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs