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Best Paw Poems

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


Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paw, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Fiddler's Cat
An ebon sky, darkness to light
Diamond stars, mosaic night
Bright lunar sphere of brilliant white
Floodlights a scene of will and might.
The Fiddler’s Cat, sips warm Bordeaux
Fiddle...

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Categories: paw, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Creature In the Night
Where cold stars exist in the dark,
serene winds whisper to trees
and scarce human ears can listen,
lone songs wail in the distance
in frozen moon's silver spotlight,
a...

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Categories: paw, animal, howl, moon, mystery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fool of Infiniti and Queen of Fate
Fool of Infiniti

A wanton bird pecks at the stars
A Jester peers through crystal bars
This prison of love with rainbow hue
Illusion parts to lets you through

On...

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Categories: paw, dark, fantasy, feelings, horse,
Form: Lay
Premium Member The Teetotaler
In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in...

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Categories: paw, memory,
Form: Terzanelle



Premium Member Looney Tune
Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth 
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While  Hobbits hold their breath

Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with...

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Categories: paw, angst, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member How Do You Do
Well, my father was a farmer, just chickens and cows
When it came to raisin' 'em, he really knew how
To milk those bovines for all they...

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Categories: paw, farm, father, jewish, religion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin Lane
The mean old housecat has bulgy eyes
when she looks at us in our fish bowl
Oh, how much we've come to despise
that big mouth of hers,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paw, cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: paw, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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Categories: paw, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flower Girls
A is for Annie Apple Blossom she buds in the Spring. 
B is Betty Baby Breath she's such a dainty thing.

C is for Miss Candy...

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Categories: paw, daughter, easter, little sister,
Form: Couplet
The Mirror of Time
I hold three magic rocks, in my hand. Rolling them over and over and over. Leaving this 
reality behind, far behind I stepped into the...

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Categories: paw, family, imagination, nostalgiaday, mom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tree Troll Twister
A three-toed tree troll
tried to trap a leaping leprechaun
with a black claw bear paw trap.
But he stubbed toe three in the trap in the tree,
Snip...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paw, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Timeless Cave
Timeless Cave

Hidden deep out of time on a limestone cliff
its entrance for the ages concealed
paw prints of cave bears on soft clay ground
and smoke-stained walls...

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Categories: paw, art, time,
Form: Free verse
The Old Dog
At a point where the old road meets the hill
and runs down the other side
There's an old tin shed that's standing, still
and a grave where...

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Categories: paw, animal, death, dog, emotions,
Form: Ballad

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