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Best Jaws Poems

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


Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads came a bobbing in frantic relays.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The Harvester’s coming to furrow the...

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Categories: jaws, angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: jaws, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Knitted You a Scarf
t         e         t      ...

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Categories: jaws, french, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jaws, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: jaws, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member As Autumn Ends
Late autumn glides  with buoyant ease
Where songbirds  twit  a mellow note;
A hymn for cycle’s last reprise
That graces  rippled leaves afloat:
November ...

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Categories: jaws, autumn, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member - the Brown Fog -
There are times you have no choice
To infinite unity, the tide comes as determined
You are part of the earth, the sun, the moon, the wind...

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Categories: jaws, dark, drink, drug, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: jaws, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Night I Fell Like Rain
You had that future retro look:  two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the...

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Categories: jaws, destiny, water, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Belly of the Beast
Belly of the BEAST 

In the dark mountain shadow
A fiery breeze coming from the East
Warmness is ripping up the sky
Hearing the sound of the Dragon...

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Categories: jaws, death, imaginationsweet, sweet,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jaws, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin Lane
The mean old housecat has bulgy eyes
when she looks at us in our fish bowl
Oh, how much we've come to despise
that big mouth of hers,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jaws, cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Two
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Two)

Song over, Poe told demon band to leave
And then pointed to the now empty stage
Wretched souls, look as...

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Categories: jaws, conflict, courage, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Orphan
You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go..
and there, she trembles
in the dark space 'neath the blackthorn shrubs 

faint...

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Categories: jaws, child, fate, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Phew What's That Smell
A smell permeates through the house
I’m convinced it must be house mouse

I hunt high and then I hunt low
But the source of the smell it...

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Categories: jaws, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs