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Best Floater Poems

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


Floater
My eye produced a floater
And although it felt quite weird,
It wasn’t quite as dangerous
As I, at first, had feared.

The vitreous inside the eye
(A jelly-seeming goop)
Becomes,...

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Categories: floater, age, health,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Empty Saddle
They formed a posse and it was loaded

Three experienced  at tracking

And their guide

He was a one-legged kangaroo

No one dared to waltz with him

Even Matilda...

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Categories: floater, funny, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Float On
A big ‘floater’ lurked in the loo
He tried to remove this huge pooh
Poked it with a stick
It made him feel sick
So he fished it out...

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Categories: floater, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Sonnet 14, Part 1 of 3
1. Ripples in warm sunbeams dwell.
From a sandy cocoon I wake and stir.
A floater in the blue does knell,
A dot, a stain, a blackened blur.
Am...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floater, evil, fantasy, fear, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Lalon Sain


When mind doesn't know
Its own secrets – how can one
Swim the sea of life


He was born Hindu or Muslim – it is controversial. Even, he...

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Categories: floater, spiritual, tribute,
Form: Haibun



Lost Love
It was the furtive glances that drew me
I sat nonchalant about those who came
The crazy curves led me to the mighty
And purple sculpture of a...

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Categories: floater, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Laughing Devil Saddens Me On Happy a Occasion
Was having gala time with friends in Niece's marriage function 
Spirited friends thought of having bhang* for fun of rarity 
Greedy of mild floater effect,...

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Categories: floater, imagination, weddingme, marriage, fun,
Form: Sonnet
Five Elemental Monoku
I. BISMUTH  [83]
rainbow-sheened cubist castles -- silver-pink of hue 

II. IODINE  [53]
gunmetal grey crystals sublime -- and billow purple 

III GALLIUM  [31]
metallic...

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Categories: floater, nature, science,
Form: Monoku
Dabbling In Dreams
The cotton candy clouds melted in my mouth
as I flew over the menacing tiger who was crouched
with his mouth open catching all my loose teeth
I...

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Categories: floater, anxiety, dream, flying, water,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Stinky Pete Cooper - Poop
My neighbor, Pete, is very frustrated
For two weeks he has been constipated
Then, in Poetry Soup
I heard him yell, "Whoop Whoop!"
His laxative had been activated!

He eats...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floater, humor,
Form: Limerick
How To Win My Heart
I want a man just like Dad

So to find him let me start by saying 
He is one of a kind so it will be...

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Categories: floater, conflict, dad, humorous, imagery,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Merry Boater
There once was a boy named O'ger
Who was quite a merry boater

Some logs were astound
That are big and brown

But not when he found a floater!...

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Categories: floater, boat, boy, funny, river,
Form: Limerick
Splashpool Fun
Temperature climbing , beginning to soar,
Got to get cool, can't take any more.
Bought this pool for Fran, she can't swim,
She feels safe in the pool,...

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Categories: floater, cool, water, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is That
*Recently I had an eye retina issue with 1st experience of floaters and flashes in  my eye. If you haven't experienced it, on the...

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Categories: floater, angst, health,
Form: Monoku
Festival Cricket
Sitting placed by Square Leg
pint of bitter in hand;
drifting across from Peasholme
music from the band.
This match is like a chess game,
each batter settled in
run rate...

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Categories: floater, holiday, joy, september, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs