Best Hankie Poems
Below are the all-time best Hankie poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hankie poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Dream of Hankie BirdsI Dream of Hankie Birds
In New Orleans there is a park
called Audubon. In dreams I go
there, see the hankie birds--a show
of snow-white feathers that is...
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Categories:
hankie, bird,
Form:
Rhyme
Gray MourningsLace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve
Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse
Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve
At times when it seems...
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Categories:
hankie, grief,
Form:
Sonnet
He Had a HolloweenieUnder his nose hung a big greenie.
The kids all thought he was a meanie.
He didn't have a hankie.
That's why he was so cranky.
Also, he had...
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Categories:
hankie, halloween,
Form:
Limerick
Child MotherLying on my back,
the warm sun blanketing,
I watched the cloud stacks drift,
breezily blown across the bluest skies,
imagining, dreaming . . .
Dangling from my lips,
sweet honeysuckle...
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Categories:
hankie, baby, childhood, dream, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
hankie, age, analogy, anxiety, culture,
Form:
Personification
MeaslesWritten by Gail DeBole
Pink polka-dotted skin stretching body-wide.
Bulges interrupting other-wise peaceful areas.
Spots of lotion and cherry-flavored tongue
Comforting misery.
Across the room, stacked in safety;
Precious dollies...
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Categories:
hankie, childhood, health,
Form:
Imagism
The Fowlsome BustardErstime, ere bards nor Wondering Joyceters
did glybb their gobs with glanjous tongue,
Sir Slip The Most (a Figleafmoistner)
was undangled…and his sling unslung.
‘Twas on...
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Categories:
hankie, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Roses Are Not Always RedSEXY REXY wanted
JUST JOEY because she
loved his IRISH EYES.
Joey was not up to
HANKIE PANKIE because
he was THE CONSTANT
GARDENER. So,he asked
DAVID AUSTIN to forget
his roses...
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Categories:
hankie, allegory, flower, garden,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Jacks
Ah had a aulder bruther whin ah wis wee,
ah wis five then an' he -wis nine yea see.
A tendid tae follow him aboot,
bit bein' aulder...
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Categories:
hankie, dedication, me, day, me,
Form:
Quatrain
NecktieWhat's your necktie dangling for?
Too stiff, too thin to be a scarf,
a bib or an apron;
too smooth to be a hankie,
too short to be a...
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Categories:
hankie, funny
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The Posh TartThe posh Tart.
She, an old fashioned girl, when walking past me
dropped her handkerchief, gallantly I picked it up.
and hand it to her, it was...
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Categories:
hankie, parody, passion, philosophy, red,
Form:
Blank verse
One Plus One Is Two, Joining Hearts Like Me and YouMixing two things will create
Something new that's really great
Yellow and blue will make green
And an outside pretty scene
Purple comes from red and blue
Growing violets==rare and...
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Categories:
hankie, beauty, love, marriage, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
hankie, funny, people, social,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Far Away Went Countess AlmavivaMuscle-bound goons. The kind that rape the world. Self-satisfied, in no hurry to devote their remarkable faculties to understanding another’s mind. Such wise men. Stares...
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Categories:
hankie, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Cracked IcebergChubby cream grubby against white ice
Hungry somewhat clumsy polar bear heist
Hopefully loping over...
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Categories:
hankie, animal, cute, earth, funny,
Form:
Burlesque