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Best Hoods Poems

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


Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: hoods, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member One Autumn Night
Our shadows are silhouetted against the fading orange sky.
A blanket of russet and brown leaves carpet the ground
Like tiny children we kick the wind blown...

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Categories: hoods, autumn, beauty, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala
 
"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"



 
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger...

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Categories: hoods, daughter, imagery, journey, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas
"Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas"

Engagement came at a cost
the written word read 
and worn like a purple robe 
to keep out the cold 
stave the...

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Categories: hoods, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Vagabond
The deep delved path winds in the wood,
chasing with ghost-breaths and leafy hoods,
arbor-brawn the winnowed path crooks along;
whispering with what future song?

To ill desire and...

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Categories: hoods, corruption, loneliness, loss, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Lost In the Backwods
Took a trip off the beaten path.
Nothing modern in site.
Knee deep in the woods and to scared to laugh.

Blew a tire.
Met some dude that said...

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Categories: hoods, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cruisin' the Drag
Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoods, car, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Days
Gone, now just a memory the warmth of summer,
winter's icy fingers now take a harsh grip turning
land to frozen waste. Blanketing it in snow as...

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Categories: hoods, snow, winter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Inner Beauties Promise
How many emotional tears have we so cried, us the unperfected,
The Barbie generational rejected, or Ken doll unrealistic Idol worship.
Cursed by society’s vision of ultimate...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoods, change, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pumpkin Patch
Shapely to coarse green stem, 
sitting alone; wanting to grin.
Patiently waiting for the take,
wanting Halloween to begin.

A few more weeks left to grow,
inviting; nestled in...

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Categories: hoods, autumn, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crack House
CRACK  HOUSE?

They come most ofen two at a time
Dressed all in black, with hoods
I call ‘em black knights
With hoods?    Fer crap,...

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Categories: hoods, society,
Form: Narrative
Rude Hood
Once there was a girl, little hood,

She was a fine mamma, looking good.

Hood decided to take a walk

Didn’t see the wolf watching her like a...

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Categories: hoods, funnybaby, baby,
Form: Burlesque
Why Vote?
why are our tax dollars being spent on crippled
and paralyzed drug hoods?
why are we supporting teenage girl having babies 
and not trying to do any...

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Categories: hoods, introspection, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Fairy In the Glen
She comes to me when e’er she will,
When starlight sprinkles my windowsill.
When the dew finds rest upon the grass
She taps upon my window glass.

I go...

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Categories: hoods, fantasy, love, me, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Turkey Dinner Turn Tail and Run
A wild gobbler strutted into the woods,
it did not see all the camouflage hoods, 
straight into a turkey shoot; 
trips over a gnarly root, 
with...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoods, thanksgiving,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things