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Best Ticky Poems

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


Suburban Summer
, 
riddles N' rainbows paintbrush the day
summer's heaviness invades
rain circumvents geraniums 
ant's N' azaleas dance through sidewalks 
where tiny green grass creep 'neath weeds 
to...

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Categories: ticky, community, emotions, family, june,
Form: Alliteration



Wet Blurting
Wet Blurting

80 year Ole Francisco, yes he  said,
 off the blinking top of his head,
A bowel fix here today!
Ya know cheese blocks you up...

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Categories: ticky, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laugh - Fives
Moshe, Larry, Curly,
Howls, cries, nyuks;
Three silly comic stars:
Smile, clown -- Cluck!

Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle,
Moron grins, happy chins;
Crazy nutty comic kooks:
Funny jokes -- egads zooks! ...

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Categories: ticky, fun, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
In the Long Ago & Used To Be
What do you see when you look at his face
Weather beaten & etched by hard work’s steady pace?
You see a broken down drunken old fool
I...

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Categories: ticky, cowboy-western, history, nostalgia, people,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Music of the Clock
Ticky, Ticky, Ticky Toc
Ticky,  Toc
I lay here in bed
Listening to that grinding music of the clock

Ticky, Ticky, Ticky Toc
Ticky,  Toc
 Oh, please let...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ticky, sleep, time,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Knackered Nonsense
(to be read out loud)


I'll eat the nibble naggle nooky nickel
	nipple nappy mum mum mum
I'll chew your gooble gobble giggle gaggle
	gimpy grampa's gum gum gum.

I'll...

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Categories: ticky, humor, imagination, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is Your Temperature
What is your temperature?
The doctor asked
During an ordinary visit.
I left the examining room
And walked through 
My palace
Skin and hair
Nails and tissue,
75 years of growth.
Ivy wild...

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Categories: ticky, blessing, courage, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Eutrophication of Golden Pond
February 28th, 1968 marked the date
Boyce Brandon Harris 
(my octogenarian widower father) 
purchased a small tract of land
Pooh would Winnie
  
constituting shadowed sliver 
once...

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Well Runs Dry
Couched in the
     concept of a well,
     (which supplied the water
     for faded...

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
All In the Name of Progress 1st Addition
The wrecking ball long since
     demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
     a once rural residence,
...

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
We Do
We sit
staring at the Sun
wishing you were here
wishing we were anywhere 
anywhere but here

We want
for the taste of human desire
salty
sweet and creamy
with the spirit of...

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Categories: ticky, angst, growing up, sorrow,
Form: I do not know?
Sweet Earth
How many more springs will be granted.
Springs where seeds and flowers are planted.
How long will the filthy rain sustain the vigor
Of tender shoots so green...

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Categories: ticky, earth, earth day, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Bread Is From Earth
Deep warm-blooded
Dark brown 
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.

Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
or even a local family-safe 
multiculturally resilient...

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Categories: ticky, community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Singy Songy Sue
Ticky Bicky Boo
Licky Mickey Moo
I'm in love with you
Little Tsuki Tsu.

Chicky Dicky Doo
Ricky Nicky Nu
Close your lips with glue
Kiss a kangaroo.

Tricky Picky Poo
Quicky Hicky Hoo
I'll...

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Categories: ticky, animal, crazy, farm, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Walking Down the Streets of Another Levittown Today
At one time my neighborhood was new mass-produced little boxes made of ticky-tacky – all looking just the same*
Beautiful affordable, true suburban models, in mid-twentieth...

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ticky, america, color, culture, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs