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Best Prawn Poems

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


Lance the Dancer
There once was a guy whose name was Lance
And all this man loved to do was dance,
If you beat on a drum
Or just twiddle your...

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Categories: prawn, funny, happiness,
Form: Limerick



Big
8/27/18
"Big"



You're a puppy, I'm a big dog
You're a guppy, I'm a big cod
You're a tadpole, I'm a big frog,
You're a piglet, I'm a big hog
You're...

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Categories: prawn, fun, perspective, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where I Was In the Seventies
I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prawn, first love,
Form: Couplet
Mulga Mick
Mulga Mick

The ice was thick round Mulga Mick,
His thoughts were in disorder,
Shiela had gone off with another chick,
Got the “Raw Prawn” bloody sort of,

His car...

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Categories: prawn, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Kazakhstan On My Mind
(Transit Lounge, Dubai International Airport, circa 2007)


He answered
that he was from far Kazakhstan, 
“Exotic place,” he added,
which I know but could not pinpoint 
on my...

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Categories: prawn, travel,
Form: Blank verse



French Invasion: Whine and Cheese
Since the bloody Battle of Hastings
When 'Arold got killed by French Bill
We've seen an endless invasion of French
And I've just about had my fill

Don't we...

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Categories: prawn, french, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Australia As I Knew It
By Robert (Bob) Moore (©2015)

The gun shearer has gone now, like many other things
the shearing sheds are empty, and wools no longer king
gone now like...

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Categories: prawn, identity, memory, people, western,
Form: Rhyme
The Bloke Who Sells the Bait
Another long weekend’s upon us and we’re ready, set to go,
To get amongst the bream again, along the river Tambo.
Our adrenaline is rushing and we’re...

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Categories: prawn, fishing, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Killifish
I've got a dish of killifish
I wish to eat that silly fish
Baked, or fried in peanut oil
Roasted, dried, or let to boil.

Make me a star-gazy...

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Categories: prawn, animal, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Animal Stories
The ten fat mice
ate loads of rice,
with lots of spice
but then needed water with ice!

There was a snail
who lived in a green pail.
One day he...

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Categories: prawn, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shrove Tuesday
pancakes barbara with cream
a buckwheat galette
haddock,prawn savoury wraps
brandy crepe suzettes
dribbled with treacle
Flip,flip Hoo
Ray!...

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Categories: prawn, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Beneath the Sea
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/beneath-the-sea

Through the journey, life arrives
Underwater – start their lives
Stable neither hot nor cold
Soft tiny eggs there to behold

Of such a time, lay vulnerable
For many eggs...

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Categories: prawn, animal, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Valentine's Day
Our Valentine’s Day

      We are tied in a bond of fantastic friendship.
     We celebrated Valentine’s day,...

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Categories: prawn, valentines day,
Form: Villanelle
Across the Room
Across the room are more than she
More than us and more than we.

At table eight sits twisted fate
Once starry eyed now belittled hate
His meal tonight...

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Categories: prawn, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Rationalism of Nationalism
Have you ever tried balancing sideways on a silver spoon holding nine goldfish? Thought not. I suppose it could be considered quite a dangerous act....

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Categories: prawn, animal, anti bullying,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs