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Best Lorries Poems

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


Time Changes, Lorries Don'T
Here I am to tell you a story
of an old and broken lorry
and it's friend, the old garage,
they were both heroes once.

Back by decades it...

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Categories: lorries, children, friendship, funny, history,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lorries, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Building Tension
That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to...

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Categories: lorries, angst, fear, lost, night,
Form: Free verse
My Honky Tonk Angel
I have dreamed so many dreams of life in Texas
Of cowboys and of the history I'd find there
So many hours I have been driving 
but...

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Categories: lorries, romantic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Childhood Games
The icy snow sparkles in the midday sun
as we glide down on cardboard toboggans.
Scarves wrapped thrice around our necks,
overcoats buttoned to the top.
We feel no...

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© Ken Duddle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lorries, childhood, children, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?



My First Pony
Miss Garner, Miss Garner. I HATE your Gymkhana,
I loathe every second it's run.
I dread all those horses and obstacle courses,
and everyone else having fun.

Now Mummy...

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Categories: lorries, children, sports,
Form: Verse
Blind Views
I stare at the world through slats in the blind
Which are partly obscuring the dazzle at times
There's nothing particular to spot there today
As even the...

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Categories: lorries, life, poems,
Form: Rhyme
A Walk Across the Forth Bridge
Thursday morning
Day aff
Time to have a think...

Down the M9
To Edinburgh
And walk across the Forth Bridge.


In the car
It's not very far
Only 26 miles,

Last day of sun
A'fore...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lorries, life,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting For What - Haibun Contest
They wait, waiting to break the law of any country, they rush in their thousands to gain access to the tunnel**.  Why, what do...

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Categories: lorries, sad,
Form: Haibun
A Mouse
A mouse!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

No one lived inside the large house.
Well, no one apart from a...

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Categories: lorries, animal, family, happy, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hunger Pangs
The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature 

Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name

Kanja...

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Categories: lorries, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Scarred Streets
the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings

there's a window in my...

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Categories: lorries, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Urban Morning Sound
hear others out there, just beyond my wall-wrapped sharing space
  they break on through, sneaking inside my head
  far above, front-nosed pilots point...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lorries, day, Lullaby, morning, sound,
Form: Verse
The Rag and Bone Man
I remember when I was a little girl
And the Rag and Bone man came round
On his cart pulled by a horse
All manner of things could...

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Categories: lorries, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Railway Crossing
The Van-Boy got out to open the gate still in his head last night’s date
He did not notice the green signal light a train was...

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Categories: lorries, funny, people, satire, work,
Form: Rhyme

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