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Best Lam Poems

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


Dr Seuss Paranoia
Did you ever have the feeling there's a man in your can?
Or a ball down the hall with an eye to spy?
Sometimes I'm sure I...

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Categories: lam, confusion, fantasy, funny, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Average Age 19
Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are...

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Categories: lam, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What Am I
My beginnings were ever so humble
To this day I wear others' rags
I'm bungled, fumbled and tumbled
My owner usually brags
Diamonds all shapes and sizes
Multicolored rainbows and...

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Categories: lam, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member "toronto Classic"
For: Scavenger Hunt
In Honor of: ~Constance~Rambling Poet

Rambling around in a traffic jam,
Poetess naked and on the lam.
  Constance’s very neat trick,
  Behind a...

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Categories: lam, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Little Sandpiper
Little piper, little piper ...
   Oh how fast you skip away,
 As the morning tide crawls in to taste the beach -
Briny swishes...

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Categories: lam, animal, appreciation, beach, bird,
Form: Rhyme



There Is a Brighter Side
A sheepdog who was really quite confused
not sure how to herd or just what to do
first day on the job
surrounded by a mob
of sheep who...

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Categories: lam, confusion, dog, work,
Form: Limerick
Fruit Famine
Please do not take your 
pomegranates for granted,
especially if you have the
last one on the planet,
a smart person would
take some seeds out
and plant it,
but couldn't...

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Categories: lam, freedom, symbolism,
Form: Light Verse
Bare
''Bare''
Dead whilst alive,
Forgotten yet solidly visible,
Underestimated but still the best there is.............
The sound of disappointment!
I am searching for a boy long forgotten,
Left for the bushes,...

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Categories: lam, anxiety, art, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wen Hairy Met Tarry
(Revised with new homophone added in. Thanks for the catch, Becca!)

*Wants upon **uh thyme inn uh would, uh vary gneiss prints named Hairy
met inn the...

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Categories: lam, word play,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Joy of Spam
One day, a convict got away, and went out on the lam.
And on the sly, he did buy, his very own kitchen cam.
Wanting to glow,...

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Categories: lam, food, funny,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Possum of Possibilities
The Possum of Possibilities was invited by Grandpa Troll to visit our brood,
The Possum heard Carol had a dry spell and a terrible writer’s block,...

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Categories: lam, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Riverboat Gambler
He plied the Mississippi River on the paddle wheeler 'Dandy Dame'.
Gamblin' was his profession and three-card monte was his game.
He became very creative at palmin'...

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Categories: lam, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any...

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Categories: lam, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
Dark Castle
It was not a dark and stormy night
The night was not sultry nor moist
The sky's color didn't please the knight.

The Knight was a gentleman since...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lam, horse, humorous, night, nonsense,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Am a Veteran
I Am a Veteran
By Franklin Price
11/3/2015

I am a veteran growing old
Always went where I was told
Followed orders to the “T”
Volunteered that was just me

Basic training...

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Categories: lam, conflict, military, nostalgia, war,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things