Best Tommy Poems
Below are the all-time best Tommy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tommy poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Loving SonThey always said, “Please bother us no more”
when Tommy sang, and Mom would stick her head
inside his room. “We need to shut your door!”
And once...
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Categories:
tommy, sad,
Form:
Villanelle
The Magic of ChristmasSparkling 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:
tommy, christmas,
Form:
Couplet
The DressIt was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now...
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Categories:
tommy, 12th grade, dance, high
Form:
Couplet
M-M-M First Kiss
Oh, how wonderfully innocent
and juvenile, 'twas for me.
You, scooting surreptitiously.
closer and closer to me.
Like a soft, gentle caterpillar,
slithering and smiling.
Making its way home in the
still...
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Categories:
tommy, car, first love, growth,
Form:
Free verse
You and I and I and YouYou, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy...
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Categories:
tommy, anger, beautiful, corruption, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
President For a Day-Dr President Lady, please launch the nuclear war button-
I'm packing up my girdle; I'm heading up state
Where society thinks only men should run...
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Categories:
tommy, appreciation, celebration, courage, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Soup Creek ForeverWe’ve had some run ins with the admin and Tommy Boy as well,
and the blunder from down under, who forever seemed to smell.
We’ve been chastised...
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Categories:
tommy, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
tommy, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
And Then a Flaming Pterodactyl Ate My HomeworkIt was our third-grade field trip to the Dinosaur Exhibit
We would be touring all the lands that dinosaurs inhibit
I remember the teacher saying “keep your...
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Categories:
tommy, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Narrative
The Camp of the Dead ChildrenEmily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die
Tommy of...
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Categories:
tommy, beauty, introspection, love, sad,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Hey Diddle Diddle, What's the Riddle?HEY DIDDLE, why the Cat and the fiddle
And the Cow that jumped over the moon?
Why they're all here in Nursery Rhyme land
At the wedding...
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Categories:
tommy, childrenwedding, old, dog, cat,
Form:
Light Verse
School's OutTrying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie...
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Categories:
tommy, kiss, snow,
Form:
Haibun
I'Ve Got a Bee In My Bonnet SonnetI never enter every contest on soup
Sometimes sponsors can be very hard to please
Achieving first place is not always a breeze
Some don’t like me...
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Categories:
tommy, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Sandlot World SeriesSome walked, others biked
As we gathered at the park
There was Jimmy, Peewee
Ricky, Billy and Mark
Neighborhood boys
From blocks around, they'd descend
For the Sandlot World Series
It was...
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Categories:
tommy, baseball, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas MourningAs December winds swirled the snow in drifts outside
Lisa covered Mama, held her hand as she cried
“It’s my last Christmas, I know...
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Categories:
tommy, christmas, holiday, mother, together,
Form:
Rhyme