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Best Water Tank Poems

Below are the all-time best Water Tank poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of water tank poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the...

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Categories: water tank, passion, universe,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Water Tower
The water tower stands above the town and can be seen for miles around.  It has a 
ladder leading up to the base of...

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Categories: water tank, childhood, faith, father, lifewords,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Windmill
It was once the pride of a prairie farmer not too many years ago.
Now, long abandoned it stands forlorn on a wind-blown plateau.
Its rusting blades...

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Categories: water tank, nostalgia, water, water,
Form: Rhyme
Hopkins Snakes
Hopkins snakes

Old Hopkins had a rope ladder,
To keep snakes out of the house,
Snake killing sticks under the rain water tank,
In the shower, where a snake...

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Categories: water tank, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dusty Boots
The Hill Country is dry and you can forget about California
Filled with dying live oak and mesquite
There’s a seven-year drought upon us
And momma says it’s...

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Categories: water tank, nature, strength,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Crazy Day
Ever find yourself getting
 up on the wrong side of 
 the bed, knowing your 
 going to have one of those 
 days!! Guess...

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Categories: water tank, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twenty Acres More Or Less
I was only twelve or thirteen when Dad bought
	The twenty acres alongside the highway
		On the east side of town in 1956,
That seemed so quiet then,...

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Categories: water tank, life, prejudice, , western,
Form: Free verse
Chateau Pl
Chateau Pl

A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed...

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Categories: water tank, class, food, jobs, satire,
Form: Prose
He Complained, She Survived
He complained that he had no hot water in his home because the water tank was broken.
She told him that her water came from a...

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Categories: water tank, loneliness, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Remember When
Remember when 
 summer days were long
 roller skating was cool
 collecting the sticker from your 5 cent gum
 while learning how to walk the...

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Categories: water tank, childhood,
Form: Light Verse
Bound To Escape
He was always in and out of work
It wasn't that he liked to shirk,
he didn't keep a job for long
because his attitude was wrong.

Then one...

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Categories: water tank, death, people, sad, social,
Form: Rhyme
Thar: the Deserted Land
All men have born desires 
    garland of the prettiest arm. 
    Want to meet in the loveliest Place...

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Categories: water tank, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Who Be That
He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work 
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.

Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like...

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Categories: water tank, clothes, corruption, environment, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Mr Stomach
Dear Mr. Stomach
I am writing to let you know you give me headache.
I have fed you in bulk,
But you never get full you are like...

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Categories: water tank, anger, body, depression, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
High Kicking Rasberries
The tale of the high kicking raspberries in two hundred lines of silt and steamed porridge oats.

Keynotes noted kissing keystones keep keystrokes kingly. But kingly...

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Categories: water tank, baby,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs