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Best Jug Poems

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


Premium Member Lavender Soap
Mother would tuck into each dresser drawer,
                  ...

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Categories: jug, family, happinesseaster,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Put - Revised
You say you want lots of rum? Put it in a big fat drum.
Cooking oils put in drums too. Soy or canola will do.

Put your...

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Categories: jug, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur - 
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such...

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Categories: jug, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Horse Life
In a horse life.We can play with a burlap feed
bag, an empty milk jug, or chew on the barn stall
door.Just to kill some time, or...

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Categories: jug, horse, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Futuristic Christmas- For Contest
Twenty fifth of December, three thousand and four
and already I'm down in the dumps
we're round at the neighbour's via tubes that save labour
propelled by some...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jug, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Country Livin'
Cans to kick, Sticks to whittle
Blow that jug, or saw that fiddle
Roll up your jeans,Go grab your pole
Wade right in, to the old fishin' hole
If...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jug, introspection, life, nature, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dewberry Cobbler
"Caleb, go fetch me some dewberries from the fence row," Momma says, 
as I polish off my Saturday morning breakfast. "I'll make us a cobbler."...

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Categories: jug, growing up,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Tonight I Went Out Swinging For the Very First Time
Tonight I went out Swinging for the very first time
Now the title has grabbed your attention – I hope you will read my rhyme!

Tonight I...

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Categories: jug, humorous, music, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Witch Hunt
There was an old lady, a frumpy old bag
who people called horrid, a witch and a hag
And 'though she was ugly and danced 'mid moonbeams
all...

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Categories: jug, community, humor, humorous, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Glenn Miller
~Glenn Miller~
(acrostic)


G-lenn Miller, his music is so wonderfully sublime,  enchanting.
L-istening to his "Moonlight Serenade" makes me think of love so tender.
E-ndless joy, in my...

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Categories: jug, beautiful, celebrity, music, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Brewing Sunsets In Teapots
I brew sunsets in teapots
I drink the dawn from a mug
and in my bicycle basket I have seduction in a jug
so now and then I...

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Categories: jug, celebration, freedom, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Words of Whiskey
McGee’s Tall Tale

I first saw McGee with his back facing me
sitting in the Pub with a pint
When Finn, asked him "Tell us a Tale"
So, he...

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Categories: jug, humorous, sea,
Form: Rhyme
A Fountain For Carmela
A Fountain for Carmela....
 
In the village of Santa Maria, high in the mountains lived a little girl named Carmela. It has 
always been the...

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Categories: jug, childrensweet, water, mother, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What!!
WHAT!!
I did mean it when I said I’d be home after nine
So don’t stare at me like I’m uncouth
4 AM is after nine
So technically I...

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Categories: jug, funnyme, home, home, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Vampire Monk, Part Iii
III.
But I had a much higher purpose now,
damned or not, I would serve the True God,
for thirty years I served with my brothers,
upon a humble...

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Categories: jug, change, dark, evil, faith,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things