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Best Sty Poems

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


Premium Member A Sty-Eye-Lised Impression
Citron yellow-
                  prussian blue
brings day and night 
...

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Categories: sty, art, places,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: sty, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bully, Blow Hard and Old Geezer
Bully, the bull dog thought he was tough
He barked until his owner had enough
Bully went to the pound
A disgruntled old hound
He had a name change...now...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sty, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ferrets, Racoons, and Skunks, Oh My
I wanted a pet, but one more unique
than a bird or a dog or a cat.
So I went onto Craig’s List so I could seek
a...

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Categories: sty, animal,
Form: Quatrain
Mouse-Pig
I have a fat and furry friend
All pink and spotty black.
I grew him from some Camembert-
The smelly little Rat!

He is my very Mouse-Pig
For that’s his...

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Categories: sty, funny, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Oink Vey - Limerick
There was a dumb pig from Kauai
Who had a huge stye in his eye
While using a hatchet 
He started to scratch it
Now the swine has...

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Categories: sty, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Visiting Dr Seuss
A furry little caterpillar
Crawled onto my knee
He turned into a butterfly
And landed in a tree

Beside him was a humming bird 
Sucking pollen from a rose
When...

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Categories: sty, granddaughter, nursery rhyme, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mighty River
Power begins a trickle,
     Becomes a river,
          From the giver,
  ...

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Categories: sty, inspirational, lovegod, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More Sad Truth: of Pigs and Pearls
This was written with regard to Jan's poem about the sad truth she discovered yesterday.  An attitude adjustment is desperately needed for anyone who...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sty, poets, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visting Dr Seuss Collaboration
"A furry little caterpillar
Crawled onto my knee
He turned into a butterfly
And landed in a tree

Beside him was a humming bird 
Sucking pollen from a rose
When...

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Categories: sty, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sty, allusion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Should I Not Be Found Alive
Sty all your bodied waters
And libelous pretensions.
Hang leather headed juries
Beside some tethered eddies.

Drown me down
In new baptismal rivers.
Spread eagle me upon
Some granite black outcroppings.

And let...

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Categories: sty, assonance, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stubborn Pig
The day my life went so crazy
Was when I laid eyes on Daisy
She was an old sow
Who mooed like a cow
And drove all farmhands crazy

We...

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Categories: sty, animal, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member We the Eagles
To fellow young Eagles,
At poetry soup,

Such a confound,
The pull down,
Once an Eagle gets off the ground,
Flying I guess prohibited,
Once exhibited,

Good advice to fly,
Remove sty from...

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Categories: sty, allegory, lovelove, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Judge Mental People
Judge Mental People


throwing rocks at crippled dogs
torturing non-classroom frogs
wallowing in self made bogs
pure jealously – non-feral hogs
consuming nothing but the same
the daily slop, a little...

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Categories: sty, hate, judgement, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things