Get Your Premium Membership

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


Premium Member I Dream of Hankie Birds
I 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gray Mournings
Lace 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, grief,
Form: Sonnet
He Had a Holloweenie
Under 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Child Mother
Lying 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, baby, childhood, dream, mother,
Form: Free verse
Dangling Contemplation
What's a necktie 
dangling for?

     Too stiff, too thin 
     to be scarf, a bib 
 ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, age, analogy, anxiety, culture,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Measles
Written 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, childhood, health,
Form: Imagism
The Fowlsome Bustard
Erstime, 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...

Read more of this work...
© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hankie, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Roses Are Not Always Red
SEXY 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...

Read more of this work...
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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, dedication, me, day, me,
Form: Quatrain
Necktie
What'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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, funny
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Posh Tart
The 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, parody, passion, philosophy, red,
Form: Blank verse
One Plus One Is Two, Joining Hearts Like Me and You
Mixing 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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, beauty, love, marriage, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Dangling Contemplation
what's a necktie dangling for?
    too stiff, too thin to be a scarf,
        a bib,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, funny, people, social,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Far Away Went Countess Almaviva
Muscle-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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, poems,
Form: Free verse
Cracked Iceberg
Chubby cream grubby against white ice
      Hungry somewhat clumsy polar bear heist
      Hopefully loping over...

Read more of this work...
Categories: hankie, animal, cute, earth, funny,
Form: Burlesque

Book: Reflection on the Important Things