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Best Stocking Poems

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


Premium Member Train of Thought
Am I dreaming 
or have I dreamt myself awake
I can’t seem to discern 
between real and fake
What’s right 
What’s wrong
which direction 
should I take
Am I...

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Categories: stocking, allusion, anxiety, child, imagery,
Form: Free verse



The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house, 
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...

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Categories: stocking, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Magic of Christmas
Sparkling snowflakes were falling around
Making a thick blanket on the ground

The lights on the Christmas trees
Twinkling brightly in the breeze

Carol singers sang a Christmas song
People...

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Categories: stocking, christmas,
Form: Couplet
The Christmas Gift
Another Christmas season has arrived, at last
  and like so many others from Yuletides past,
    I'm glad some things have remained...

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Categories: stocking, christmas, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Wrapper's Night Before Christmas
(a rhyme revision in stanza 9 in case the sponsor already read this.)

'Twas the night before Christmas. My shopping was done.
But gifts needed wrapping, and...

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Categories: stocking, christmas,
Form: Rhyme



Antisocial
People wonder why I’m so antisocial hardly talk or hang with anybody
They wonder why I stay to myself and just do me
They wonder why I’m...

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Categories: stocking, depression, god, me, women,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Howl Beyond Reason
“Being crazy isn't enough.” ? Dr. Seuss

Jabberwocky's growl
Jabberwocky howl
howl at little girls
howl at the moon
moon with your pants down
moon over Manhattan
Manhattan nights
Manhattan Knights
Knights in White...

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Categories: stocking, analogy, crazy, word play,
Form: Blitz
You'D Better Not Pout
Kicking Santa is not nice to do.
Chuck Norris has replaced him, 'tis true.
You'd better not pout,
or a swollen snout,
and a stocking of whoop-ass for you!



12/21/14
Contest:...

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Categories: stocking, christmas, funny, silly,
Form: Limerick
I'Ll Be Home For Christmas
I'll be home for Christmas 

home is where you are 

It's where fluttering flakes

fall like stars on my face 

It's where the scarlet bird sings...

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Categories: stocking, christmas, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Likes To Knit Her Noodles
Her chopsticks are at the ready.
Her hands are good and steady.
She likes to knit her noodles!
The task has just begun...

She starts off with a mango...

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Categories: stocking, food, funny, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Say Hell No To the Vaccine
Their Plans are being implemented as Trump says, "Operation Warp Speed."
Say Good Bye to the Country We All Cherished. The Coin shortage is the planned...

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Categories: stocking, betrayal, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Humbug Melts Away
Here we go again,
I’ll have to count to ten,
It’s Christmas time once more,
Christmas songs ‘n every store.

It’s bound to cost a mint
It’s gunna make me...

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Categories: stocking, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remember the Day
 
Remember the day
mom, when I was born
it was in a Canadian snow storm
Remember the day
you held me to your heart
and whispered that you loved...

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Categories: stocking, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Fashioned Christmas
The snow fell gently on a quiet street
Neighbors walked in without knocking
There was a feeling of joy in the air
As each child hung up their...

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Categories: stocking, childhood, happiness, life, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Christmas Memories
We were poor, but my brother and I didn’t know it.
Before Christmas my dad would take us to find just the right scraggly 
fir tree..a...

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Categories: stocking, childhood, holidaychristmas, christmas,
Form: Narrative

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