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Best Socks Poems

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


Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

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Categories: socks, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse



It's Great To Be Alive
Wrinkles and gray hair
get me in a rage
and I say to myself,
“Why don't you act your age!"

My poor aching feet
remind me to wear sensible shoes
but...

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Categories: socks, age, life,
Form: Rhyme
Moving On
I'm not selling a house, i'm leaving my home.
Happy times together, months spent alone.
Morning sickness, baby loss, labour and birth
Planting my seeds in good strong...

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Categories: socks, child, emotions, family, garden,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Defying Predictability
With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Categories: socks, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On My Threadbare Love
My love is like a worker's gloves grown old.
His hands are leather, roughened now with age
and years of work in weather hot and cold,
yet through...

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Categories: socks, husband,
Form: Sonnet



What I Like
Don’t you know I like things sweet?
Sewage water and pickled feet
Noses that run like Kenyan jocks
And year old milk that’s kept in socks
Don’t you know...

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Categories: socks, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Loving
Loving is to through a pebble into the sea
and the ripple become a wave
to plant a seed
and it become a tree
to cook a meal
and it...

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Categories: socks, lovewords, giving, love, time,
Form: Couplet
Dare We
 ~Dare We~
Side by side in the full moonlight, looking up in wonder
Shoulders rubbing, breaths, mingling hands begin to wander
Daringly we looked together, would we...

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Categories: socks, funny, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Child
A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our...

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Categories: socks, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Dress Me Down
My shirts are tired of me.
'You're tiresome', they say,
'shouldn't you leave soon ?'
My socks take their orders 
from my shoes, 
or is it the other...

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Categories: socks, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enough Already, Ode To a Turkey
Oh how I love thee with your white and dark meat
Thou art the very best
But because of you, I can’t see my feet
My navel is...

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Categories: socks, funny, holidaylove, me,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: socks, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Phew What's That Smell
A smell permeates through the house
I’m convinced it must be house mouse

I hunt high and then I hunt low
But the source of the smell it...

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Categories: socks, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member His Old Pick-Up Truck
He begs me to come, but he's run out of luck
You won't catch me dead in that beat-up old truck!
It was painted blue...now the color...

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Categories: socks, dog, funny, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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Categories: socks, community,
Form: Verse

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