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Best Matchbox Poems

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


Premium Member The Cuddling Cricket
It’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...

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Categories: matchbox, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form: Light Verse



My Fallen Fay
Twas’ by a waterfall quite late,
Beneath the stars, full moon awake,
I saw my tiny love, my Fay,
Upon a mossy bank, she lay;

At first glance, I...

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Categories: matchbox, adventure, hope, imagination, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Little Red Corvette
Sugar drops and colored gumballs,
An open skyline, an open convertible, and a white ragtop!
Black Perrelis, red caps, and spoked mag-frames,
Pacific Coast Highway, and her stairway...

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© Thomas Hsi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbox, adventure, car, for him,
Form: Free verse
Contrary Telescope
Time can be counted in milliseconds
Pay attention
To the cracks in the pavement
Where the sand grains no longer held their cement

The proverbial elephant
Resides in a matchbox...

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Categories: matchbox, time
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touch-Monday
My
eyes are 
sorely touched
with the harsh flash
of puce and pink-red
exhaust fumes leak lazy 
from the line of matchbox cars
clogging humanities sewers
lungs gasp   at...

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Categories: matchbox, angst, life
Form: Verse



The Valley
Dawn develops with snowflakes
It also commences with sunny glow
The peak stands with green bushes with some small fleece like folks.
Fleece folks with Liliputs owners grazing...

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Categories: matchbox, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Runaway Train
RUNAWAY TRAIN

A runaway train a life full of pain
Running avoiding the hurt
Getting away with lies, dancing in the rain
Treating everyone like dirt
Call me insane 
I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbox, abuse, adventure, childhood, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Phobia's
Phobias
	A Bluto is not that Disney dog
	It was when a mewling 
	that I would scream 
	Should they wet my body
	And then apply cream
	
	Ablutophobia – fear...

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© Ian Howard  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbox, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Alan Titmarsh
Dear Alan Titmarsh, how are you.

I do hope you and everyone else, enjoyed themselves at the do.

If you are ever in Ruddington,could you please give...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbox, funnychristmas, me, tree, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baby Bug Or My Pet Race Roach
Well, I've been in jail since Juvember,
And I've pulled thru Maynever,
And now it's past September,
And I wonder if I'll ever,
Get out of here,

Yea, this place...

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Categories: matchbox, funny, imagination, petsrace,
Form: Rhyme
Incy Wincy Caterpillar Nr
Incy Wincy caterpillar, what are you doing there?
You’re not supposed to crawl up, you know it isn’t fair.

If you go to sleep up there, and...

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Categories: matchbox, kids,
Form: Couplet
Free Fire
A thought came
Dressed as soldier
Telling me;
“Never buy matchbox
Trap shooting stars
To light the a charcoal stove
Forever free fire for you.
No tax, no smoke
Go now.”...

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Categories: matchbox, fire, satire,
Form: Imagism
The Little Mouse I Met
Late one August evening, in the cold and wet,
I looked outside the window and a little mouse I met,
She was sitting in the tree tops...

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Categories: matchbox, children, imagination, me, tree,
Form: Light Verse
Throwing the Last Stone
the episode took place near the sewer
the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground
his white clothes dipping in red
a rowdy mob encircled him
like vultures awaiting...

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Categories: matchbox, funeral,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The-Hour-Glass
Please, save me!!
Solitude is speaking, oh so lonely...

We have plenty of gain 
In our pockets, overflowing with light
You are like an airplane,
Landing safely from a...

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Categories: matchbox, betrayal, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs