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Best Lad Poems

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


Premium Member Dance To Love - Part 2- POTD - The Grand Finale - a Visual Art Poem Tribute
POTD 6th August 2019

The clock ticks down the passing day
Tedious seconds count down my existence
Time for my pills ~ Time to call the nurse
Time ~...

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Categories: lad, romantic, tribute,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Christmas Eve
CHRISTMAS EVE

He lay abed
That most tranquil of nights
Aghast at moon and stars
Dad had painted for his delight

In one charmed corner
A spider was swinging
From his thready...

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Categories: lad, anti bullying, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footprints To Follow
Father’s bare feet left footprints in the sand
Young son followed, each step carefully planned

Tim wanted so much to be like his Dad
Always emulating, quite a...

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Categories: lad, childhood, inspirational
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: lad, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Little Fir Tree's First Xmas
The little fir tree was feeling extremely sad
it was tiny compared to its mum and its dad
When people saw the tree they just walked away
and...

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Categories: lad, child, christmas, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bright Beautiful Red
Big ripe Mcintosh apples found lying on the ground
Release sweet juiciness when their finders take a bite.
Ibises of scarlet stand elsewhere in the world without...

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Categories: lad, color,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Sage of Glasgow
 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no...

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Categories: lad, friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member "sacred Season"
A dream

To hear the whippoorwills' sad urgent  call
I was very glad when I was a lad
But now twilight nearing new season's fall
My Essence of...

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Categories: lad, inspirational, lovegod, god, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Civility
Red hair protruding from the soldier’s cap
Bright sun and heat, his freckles clearly seen
How peacefully the lad appears to nap
Mae Caulfield moans while searching for...

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Categories: lad, loss, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Spoonerism Poetry: She's Too Titty
She’s too titty to be a preacher.
She can’t even bead a rook.
A rental deceptionist?  Maybe.
At my teeth she once look a took.

As a wean...

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Categories: lad, parody, word play,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Reflecting On Police Brutality
It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion  
through southern Spain, across...

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Categories: lad, violence, prejudice,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Vodge Diper
The day started badly as I had a bat flattery on my vodge diper

It was roaring with pain when I arrived at the par cark...

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Categories: lad, car, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Duck That Lost His Quack
The Duck That Lost His Quack


A Duck woke up late one day last week,
And all he could do was to squeak.
He looked everywhere and listened...

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Categories: lad, animal, cheer up, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member We Are So Different
We are so different

I am smart, you are less so
I am a man, you are a woman
I am trump, you are poor
I am beautiful, you...

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Categories: lad, arabic, child, forgiveness, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: lad, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs