Best Thumbs Poems
Below are the all-time best Thumbs poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of thumbs poems written by PoetrySoup members
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
thumbs, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
Catching Lightning BugsWhen I was a little girl, Granddad and I spent many summer evenings together sipping lemonade and swinging back and forth on his vintage metal...
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Categories:
thumbs, grandfather, insect, magic, night,
Form:
Haibun
And Nothing Else Matters-In An Upside Down WorldPerhaps in a row they sit on their chair.
At their small object they all like to stare.
In an upside down world, the room’s silence grows.
They...
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Categories:
thumbs, humorous, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhapsody In RedWhen morning breaks in shades of wine...
with claret skies to blush the dawn...
I will stretch and yawn, and...
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Categories:
thumbs, color, happy, nature, red,
Form:
Free verse
Little Boy LostPoor Little Boy Lost plays a game of peekaboo
Pretending everything in his world is well
Spoiled was his plan for organizing a coup
and now he hopes...
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Categories:
thumbs, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
The World Around UsAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...
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Categories:
thumbs, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Strongest DayYour strongest day is standing
just outside your door. Let it in.
Each day the sun comes home to you
it whispers with the wind
calling out your...
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Categories:
thumbs, adventure, character, courage, identity,
Form:
Free verse
" Ike and Jane "- Sequence 2The name's Ike.
Some a ya might a met me before,
in my very first write,
and knew me as the stalker with the walker.
"Retired Romance" was the...
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Categories:
thumbs, funny, love, wifeme, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Exit 7b1.
they say everything here is
somewhere in the middle of the road
where names get bleached and keys forget about their doors
and there is something we should...
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Categories:
thumbs, feelings, imagery, lost, urban,
Form:
Free verse
Clair De LuneI would practice each day without satisfaction,
longing to capture the moon's oratory.
DeBussy, God, help me, I should say that I'm sorry!
Though my fingers were nimble,...
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Categories:
thumbs, childhood, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Wing WalkerOld John's birthday was approaching, he'd be seventy two
And his family asked him nicely what he'd like to do
"Do you fancy a nice picnic...
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Categories:
thumbs, age, birthday, flying, funny,
Form:
Narrative
Babies UnbornI raise my voice and rage a fight
for little children trashed and thrown.
Sweet little coos and burps never heard,
the printed mittens never sewn.
These...
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Categories:
thumbs, childhood, children, children,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tree Named LouI have a tree named Lou, a great, spreading beech
the shape of a gigantic pear with the stem upside-down.
I named it Lou so it could...
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Categories:
thumbs, tree,
Form:
Free verse
SomewhereI’m inside the night
Twirling my thumbs
Watching moths
About my head
Beating soft wings
Against things.
I’m outside the day
Wiping sweat from
The back of my neck
Watching pterodactyls
Beating their...
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Categories:
thumbs, adventure
Form:
Free verse
Dolce Far NienteCradled by a hammock
with the sun shining in.
Coddled with Summer fun.
Ice cream’s dripping
from a whopping sugar cone.
It’s sweet to do nothing
but tongue the licks
and swing...
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Categories:
thumbs, vacation,
Form:
Free verse