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Best Tasmanian Poems

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


The Tasmanian Devil
The New Ocean House, back in sixty-eight,
Worked as a busboy, left that night late.
A very dark night, dark of the moon.
Might have been May, may...

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Categories: tasmanian, adventure, funny, history, night,
Form: Rhyme



A Tasmanian Angel
Typing away, their words had met,
Across a computer filled internet.
She was a Taz, he was a Scot,
She, beautifully bronzed, he, definitely not!
 
She had bought a...

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© Chris Gair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tasmanian, fun, funny love, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Life As Tasmanian Devil
Pups, imps, joeys, wiggling tailed marsupials, hunting in parties of five.
Deadly facial cancer has killed lots of us, it’s a wonder I am still alive.
I...

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Categories: tasmanian, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hypnotic Twister
turbulent dark wind...
tasmanian devil cloud...
rotating descends…



2-13-17...

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Categories: tasmanian, weather, wind,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Picture of Him
We stood silent
in the cold wind,  
snug in the wrapped warmth
of our grandmothers thick coat, 
my sister and I,
staring into the mystery
of a freshly...

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Categories: tasmanian, grandfather, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Negotiating
negotiating
with the tasmanian
she-devil



posted on September 21, 2018...

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Categories: tasmanian, conflict, word play,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul...

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Categories: tasmanian, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Narrative
The Freaky Monster Party
They had gathered at a spooky castle,
The moon was full and bright,
Located on the Scottish moor
The party started late at night.

The werewolf was there 
With...

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Categories: tasmanian, children, funny, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Holding Back the Tears
I really think I know you, even when I'm blue
    When were full of Tasmanian oysters and too much chardonnay
  ...

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Categories: tasmanian, people,
Form: Villanelle
Forgotten Tribes
Australia the lucky country but not for all,
It's time to tell a tale that's not so tall.
The country's past is dark and really no mystery,
Most...

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tasmanian, humanity, hurt, sad, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kookaburras
Kookaburras
are found in Australia,
they are not pretty birds
with a lovely call,
but racous enough
to mistake it 
for laughter, or even screams of amusement.


Kookaburras
love to ride kangaroos,
and...

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Categories: tasmanian, children, funny, nature, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falling of the Edge of the World
I travelled into my thoughts
To somewhere I've never been
The horrors that awaited me
Took me to our human extreme

I cried when I looked through
The windows of...

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Categories: tasmanian, angst, animals, history, hope,
Form: Quatrain
Mountain Ash
in a time long ago
i was just two leaves growing so slow
looking for a space
to grow at my pace
dreaming of the giant i would become
if...

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© Andy Ervin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tasmanian, appreciation, beauty, me, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Tasmania
Tasmania 

Wool of the sheep in Tasmania is full of soot a fire has 
destroyed the farms they belonged to. They have gone 
feral now...

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Categories: tasmanian, natural disasters, people, fire,
Form: Blank verse
Face Time
Come here Beautiful,
Allow me to take my time and admire your bodacious body 
Or better yet what I see in front of me
Is one of...

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Categories: tasmanian, black love, sexy,
Form: ABC

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