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Best Knocker Poems

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Premium Member The Knocker Upper
by Robert (Bob) Moore ©

Tap Tap on the window on a cold and frosty morn
I try hard to ignore it, it’s still not even dawn
I...

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Categories: knocker, memory,
Form: Ballad



Craigie Manor
Within the Craigie Mile a manor house stands
Under sheeted rain and surrounded by shrouding fog
One night as Hell sang in the sky
A lady did run...

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Categories: knocker, dark, dream, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The House Down the Road
A tad over three blocks down Merion Lane
on the left is, an idyllic Cape Cod.
I must've passed it a thousand times
my own picturesque, perfect, postcard...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: knocker, dream, home, image, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunted House
THE HAUNTED HOUSE

The dark shadows flicker, hapless waves crash —
against the abyss a lover’s hopes dash.

Latter years, melancholic, dressed in black,
arrival of the vampire’s curse...

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Categories: knocker, dark, scary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member An Early Mornings Tale
One morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for...

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Categories: knocker, celebration, emotions, family,
Form: Narrative



Job Change
You know, I thought changing one’s job would be easy,
To start a new vocation would be breezy.
I got me local newspaper, looking for a job...

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Categories: knocker, funny, life, workme,
Form: Rhyme
The Moon Also Rises - the Midwatch
The Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch

Harry Mayer


The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.

“I’ll take...

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Categories: knocker, humor, military, sea,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Night Hawker
One lonely, chilly night, I awoke to faintly hear 
a rap, rap, rap coming from my front door knocker.
Too curious to ignore, I opened it...

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Categories: knocker, night, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Granddad's Homemade Bean Soup
GRANDDAD’S Homemade BEAN SOUP

Bean soup was served ‘cause Granddad was in town. 
     Yes, every grown up in the neighborhood. 
Was...

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Categories: knocker, family, food, loveboat, love,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Rainbow of Emotions
My search is over, found my rainbows end
entrance has gold door with silver knocker 
I turn the diamond crusted door handle
met with prism of colour...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: knocker, beautiful, emotions, friendship, future,
Form: Blank verse
Lessons Learned
My grandson asked if back when I was young
I had ever done anything naughty or wrong
I said shut the door put on listening ears
And Ill...

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Categories: knocker, childhood, life, me, woman,
Form: Couplet
' Knock - Knock Jokes ... ( Quirky, Yes )
Aahhhh, The Quirky/Idiosyncrasies of MoonBee


Knock, Knock …
Who’s There ?
     Icky …
Icky Who ?
… Never Mind, I’ll Come Back Later …


Knock, Knock...

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Categories: knocker, adventure, childhood, family, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rodeo and Juliet
On the spur of the moment forecast by eternal script in the stars

The Bard strummed his guitar and sung a ballade from heart’s lute 

Wild...

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Categories: knocker, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Turn Around
I’m hating myself for the person I’ve become 
I’m different to all And not just some 
I swear a chimp would succeed more than me...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: knocker, anxiety, depression, hope, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Widow
The Widow 

A widow came a knocking, 
A knocking on my door, 
A widow with her baggage 
And mourning black she wore.

Her fingers were a...

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Categories: knocker, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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