Best Water Tank Poems
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 universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations
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Categories:
water tank, passion, universe,
Form:
Epic
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 the tank. This ladder has been climbed by countless
teenagers, for thrills and ......
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Categories:
water tank, childhood, faith, father, lifewords,
Form:
Narrative
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 slowly turn at the whim of every passing breeze.
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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 ate the mouse,
The fowls all lived......
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Categories:
water tank, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
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 going to get worse
Red ants on the tir......
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Categories:
water tank, nature, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Crazy Day
...Ever find yourself getting
up on the wrong side of
the bed, knowing your
going to have one of those
days!! Guess what!
everything went wrong,
first, the letters slipped
out of the ma......
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Categories:
water tank, funny,
Form:
Free verse
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, unimportant even.
A piece of ground where ho......
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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 shoes
Eating ......
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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 slough, which was five miles from her home.
He complained that his ca......
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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 dog with your coke a cola yo yo
remember when happy days w......
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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 day early in the spring
he started doing conjuring,
u......
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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
Where no hurdle no harm.
She was waiting to Mr right
Spider webs to trap ju......
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Categories:
water tank, death of a friend,
Form:
Elegy
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 is often not associated with ki......
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Categories:
water tank, baby,
Form:
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 vaseline
Put ugwu meta
And land ponm......
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Categories:
water tank, clothes, corruption, environment, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beauty
...The beauty
Of
Namatjira
White haired
Bark painter's
Of fish
Wandjina
Feathered man
Full sunset
Corroboree
Pintubi
Dancers
In watercourse
Colours
Of hills
And rangers
Near Henbury
Or......
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Categories:
water tank, art, courage, poetry,
Form:
Free verse