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Best Spanners Poems

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


No Busybodies, No Romance Spanners
Hell’s bells knell if online love I accommodate
On Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
In moments driven by exhilaration to promote
A fad that’s all the rage online depending...

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Categories: spanners, poems,
Form: Free verse



Roasted Chickens, Rusted Spanners
Africa, why are you excited so much
with roasted chicken you get each year
coming to you from foreign poultry farms
Can they lay eggs that can hatch,...

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Categories: spanners, africa, satire,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Flies
In the Australian summer
you’ll always have some mates,
they will ride upon your back 
and then fly to your plates
at your picnic in the outdoors,
and there’ll...

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Categories: spanners, angst, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rod's Spanner
I have some favorite tools I use,
Whenever I ply my trade, 
From the hammer in my leather pouch, 
To the retractable cutting blade.

I also love...

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Categories: spanners, funny, work,
Form: Quatrain
Bob the Builder Lynn
“Bob The Builder Lynn”  (2 years old)

At our residence in the United States
screw drivers and pliers are always at stake,
if in need, you will...

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© Mya Thein  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanners, child, Grandson,
Form: Rhyme



The Rhyme Advancer With the Answers
Poetry Soup, The foundation where I’m planting my roots, 
Lassoed by a rope that’s never loose,
Always bringing me back,
I’m here, ready with no fear, high...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanners, angel, blessing, meaningful, self,
Form: Free verse
You May Think I'M Crazy - the Booty Poem-
You may think I'm crazy, or that it won't suit me
If I had one wish, id wish for a booty
No not a car trunk or...

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Categories: spanners, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Genie On the Loose
The genie is on the loose
                   ...

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Categories: spanners, cry, dark, horror, journey,
Form: Lyric
Small Minds, Average Minds, Great Minds
Small minds people’s frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront and behind...

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Categories: spanners, poems,
Form: Free verse
Apology To Eliot
Let us go to certain half-desserted restaurant
Where cheese is spread on the table like an elkmilksheet  
Steaks are burnt, curries are bland, puddings are...

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Categories: spanners, age, allegory, angst, crazy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Paintbrush of Turbulence
I confess it’s better everyday.
Since you have swung your heart my way.
Rock bottom seemed to have no floor.
Then dove into the bleak abyss.
Blinded till I...

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Categories: spanners, appreciation, art, beauty, hope,
Form: Verse
My Dear Friend Robert
So many many memories 
From a time so long ago 
But it never seems to get easier
And I really wanted you to know 

We did...

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Categories: spanners, best friend, loss, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Ejected, Evicted, Unprotected and Uninvited
Expectations unmet
In love that shone light
On hopes unfelt
Strode astride in flight

To Cupid’s abode
Where love smote
A heart that rode
A hurdle whose coat

Sought to suppress
An impression within...

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Categories: spanners, poems,
Form: Free verse
Dele(For Dele Giwa 19th Year Remembrance)
Lingering  will it be in our memories
As we memorise the memorable
Memoir of the memorial
Of  Dele Giwa

A letter engraved in a Bomb
Plucked away our...

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Categories: spanners, anniversary, death, inspirational, power,
Form: I do not know?
Crying After My Horse Bolted
Disaster knell, disaster bell, disaster cell
Fly into my matrimony faster
When in a short time spell
I choose to plunge my home into a cluster

Where nonsense and...

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Categories: spanners, poems,
Form: Free verse

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