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Best Hornet Poems

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


Premium Member Literally a Sonnet About a Hornet
Oh buzz off you crazy crazy hornet
Trying to land here upon my buttock,
Here I am eating my crispy cornet
Lazing naked in my garden hammock.

Tried to...

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Categories: hornet, funny, pain,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Uncircumnavigated
"Uncircumnavigated"



Just Around the Corner ...



How did you write 
your way 
into my story?

A Wolf 
and
a Fox

Blitzkrieg. 
The rompers 
romp in…

This is unprecedented, unwanted,
Silence is Golden
I...

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Categories: hornet, adventure, romance, word play,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: hornet, humor,
Form: Free verse
Barefoot Boy, With a Fishing Pole.
A man I am and near my end.
I have other men to call me friend.

And women round me for the lust
And four leaf clover for...

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Categories: hornet, faith, inspirational, me, work,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Halloween Bee In My Bonnet Sonnet
It's Halloween, that spooky time of year, 
when scary monsters prowl the streets all night. 
The costumes sometimes give us such a fright - 
our...

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Categories: hornet, anger, halloween, humorous,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Toon Time
If I could be a cartoon character
Which one would I be
I thought about being Fred Flinstone
But he's too old-fashioned for me

And then there's maybe George...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hornet, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Listen To the Trees
Listen to the trees…
how dark their voices in the moonless night--
unnerving shades that only today were bright, green, sunny things;
and now their quivering leaves, remind...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hornet, adventure, allegory, allusion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Talking 'Bout Stingers
I guess I’m more accustomed to the modern sting these days;
the one that comes by e-mail or the phone.
They might hurt the pocket with the...

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Categories: hornet, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fool's Paradise
Upon a tattered pillow, day or night,
He sleeps through happy hours without a stir;
Tail wrapped around and paws tucked out of sight
Beneath a purring ball...

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Categories: hornet, corruption, humanity, life, society,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: hornet, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Sky Eye and the Hope Angels
“Blue Sky Eye and The Hope Angels”



It came to be 
that many forgot
the messages imparted 

prior to arrival
instructions were encoded 
inside all our vessels 

we...

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Categories: hornet, i am, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
The Dog and the Rabbit
The dog seen a rabbit and how he did chase
to catch that little critter and boy what a race

But one thing that rabbit knew as...

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Categories: hornet, animals, food, funny, dog,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Insects a To Z
A is for Ant, tiny but stout, they can lift fifty times their own weight,
B is for Bee, reaps nectar for honey; may opt to...

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Categories: hornet, kids, science,
Form: ABC
Anger's Betrayal
My vile tongue betrays me, rage defiles words.
A dragon’s flamed breath scorches far less.
From buried heartache, my ill soul’s duress 
festers in mourning, locked tight...

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Categories: hornet, anger, betrayal, grief, hate,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Heroic Pests
Batman had some guests who outdid their stay
By making a muddle with their foul play

Robin was first, yet his diet of late
Were larva and worms...

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Categories: hornet, funny, hero,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things