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Best Totes Poems

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


Threadbare Clouds
Gray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got...

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Categories: totes, angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Speaking With Shakespeare
I ran into Shakespeare the other day.
Told him I too am writing a play.
He asked about the premise, which was a reeler.
I had no idea...

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Categories: totes, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Button Poem
Buttons for game pieces, buttons on totes,
Buttons on toys, shoes, sweaters and coats.

Buttons that open and buttons that close
On pockets and purses and edges of...

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Categories: totes, children, , cute,
Form: Couplet
What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: totes, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
My Man Cave Closet
In my man cave, is a closet
Which would spawn horrible critiques
Totes full of old computer parts
Some of which my be antiques

Various plumbing parts abound
But Lord...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totes, conflict, perspective, places, truth,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Devil's Banquet
Some years from now
the Devil throws a banquet – 
In hell, of course – where he alone 
unquestionably rules:

A banquet table plated for 
greedy fools:...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totes, allegory, betrayal, corruption, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxii Part1
If my rhymes rugged and clucking might be
As it would better fit to wretched hole
Above which are pointing all rocks to see,

I would express my...

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Categories: totes, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Just Down the Road a Piece
Just down the gravel road a piece is an old-time country store.
On its saggin' shelves are things you won't find much anymore.
Ladies in bright calico...

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Categories: totes, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unemployment - Day Five
It's my fifth day of unemployment
and I'm going a little bit crazy.
I'd expected to sit around and relax
and in general behave quite lazy.

Day one, I...

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Categories: totes, funny, on work and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Class Reunion
A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's...

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Categories: totes, change, high school, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member High School Reunion
The invitations were sent to alumni far and near,
To gather for the school reunion later in the year.
The ultimate occasion to turn on all the...

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Categories: totes, funnygraduation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kate's Place
"Well......Howdy, Cowboy!......So, where're ya' from?"

A whiskey thirst?? She'll bring you one
Dust off your hat, take off your spurs,
put down your gun,  and share a...

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Categories: totes, people,
Form: Rhyme
Can'T Buy Me Love
Lover; leave me a love note
When you are away I choke
Need not buy me shiny totes
Plus...I know your broke...

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Categories: totes, funny, girlfriend-boyfriendme,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member My Quirk
My Quirk


A thing that bothers me the most,
the quirk that nags at me each day,
my study desktop capped with stuff -
its cluttered surface on display.

Poetry...

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Categories: totes, angst, crazy, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Off Season Santa
Off Season Santa

Cajun Santa won’t ever be seen

Buying Christmas candy in New Orleans

He has a whole group of Elves back in the swamp

Making Cajun candy...

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© Mack Toler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totes, cheer up, christmas, easter,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things