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Best Rex Poems

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


Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

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Categories: rex, books,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Position Impossible Ii - Collaboration With Jan Allison - Bawdy Warning
Aunt Ethel said to Uncle Fred,
Let’s attempt the starfish in bed,
Old Ethel insisted,
Till Fred’s back got twisted,
They best stick to sleeping instead!

Original poem by Jan...

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Categories: rex, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Following the Dinosaur Trail
babysitting Ricky
he shows me books on T-Rex. . .
ancient history

years later. . . watching
Jurassic Park on TV. . . 
my two kids and I

games played...

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Categories: rex, animals, Grandson,
Form: Haiku
They Don'T Bite Like They Used To
He sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap 
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap. 
I knew...

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Categories: rex, father, nostalgia, social, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kids Have Ears the Size of An Elephant and a Mouth To Match
I read Darryl Ashton’s poem Called Pinocchio Rex and this brought back 
memories of a childhood incident

When I grew up we had a smallholding –...

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Categories: rex, childhood, humorous, innocence, mum,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct, One Lives In My House (For Colin)
A contemporary creature,
this Tyrannosaurus Rex is not a carnivore.
He delights in gnashing peanut butter sandwiches
and his habitat is lush
with rocks and bugs and toys
And if...

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Categories: rex, family, love, mother
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jukebox
The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzie Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Aerosmith, The Eagles, War
Dolly Parton, Sandie...

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Categories: rex, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme
A Dog Named Sex
A Dog Named Sex


My pooch is not named Rover, Fluffy, Spot or Rex.
I wanted something different, so I named my puppy, Sex.

To renew my doggie’s...

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Categories: rex, animal, best friend,
Form: Light Verse
Hot Love In the Kitchen
Inspired By T Rex 'Hot Love'

Well she's his woman of gold 
She won't do as she's told 
A ha ha 
She's his woman of gold...

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Categories: rex, humorous,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Death of the Dinosaurs
The day the asteroid arrived the dinosaurs were playing,
With toys and bats and balls and things, some dancing jigs and swaying.
Young Betty Brontosaurus was renowned...

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Categories: rex, funny, history, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Wet But Wiser
palindromes

A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Teenager Rex brought a can of soda;
he shook it up hard and then pulled the tab.
But Rex was too...

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Categories: rex, adventure, funny, pets,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Hummingbird Cake
"The Hummingbird Cake"




The day started bright -

Bright Eggshell Blue
and ended in percussion
dark and cloudy stormed in
thunder pummelled drums
against a backdrop of 
bruised eggshell dijon yellow
sweating...

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Categories: rex, freedom, psychological, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dragon Walkie
I was out walking my dragon, when I came across a Dogasaurus Rex.
It really wasn’t so bad until; they got into a real life-pissing contest.
My...

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Categories: rex, adventure, fantasy, fire, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Little Boys
Mud puddles were made for little boys on warm summer days,
In search of tadpoles and frogs and other delightful items of play.
Grass snakes are fine...

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Categories: rex, adventure, childhood, family, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Somethingsaurus
Fossilized pieces past discovery’s brink
made some people
think, think, think,

of giant plant eaters in an artist’s sketch,
how their necks would
stretch, stretch, stretch.

Meat eaters hungry and looking...

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Categories: rex, 1st grade, children, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs