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Best Wheelbarrow Poems

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


The Red Wheelbarrow
The old red wheelbarrow is still standing there
right next to my Grandfather’s fixed rocking chair.
Though neither has moved in a good many years
their presence revives...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, death, grandparents, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Red Wheelbarrow
How I loved spending a week of the summer holidays with my grandparents. Gramps would come and pick me up in his old pick- up...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, childhood, garden, grandparents, memory,
Form: Haibun
The Babaji Wheelbarrow
It was a dry, dusty day when I saw the wheelbarrow, with long handles made of dark wood. 
The wheel is struggling as it carries...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, bereavement, children, conflict, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Red Wheelbarrow
The red wheelbarrow
with its cement smudges
and rusty scratches
dwarfs the white rabbit
nibbling young lettuce
covered in morning dew
next to the flowering
crepe myrtle....

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wheelbarrow, allusion, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
Felled Tree
Dear swollen-trunk maple, deemed 
diseased by the saw-happy tree guy, 
you who have stood silently, supposedly 
slipping your ailment through your roots 
to the neighboring...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, life, tree, space, tree,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Load
Even the smallest ants cast long shadows
While carrying the weight of a large chunk
Inching along with food that seems shallow
Even the smallest ants cast long...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, deep, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Lockdown Humour
TED

A cheating farmer called Teddy McClure
Thought that his wife knew but he wasn't sure
Oh boy she knew alright
Cos when he took a bite
Of his sandwich...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, humor,
Form: Limerick
Incredible Product Warnings
Incredible Product Warnings

By Elton Camp

Far from folly this hair dry warning is keeping
In telling snoozers, “Do not use while sleeping”

Thinking of putting a curl in...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wheelbarrow, funnymay,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembering Mrs Sully
Remembering Mrs. Sully always makes my face break out into smiling mode.
Her face was as craggy as a grave, there was an aluminum tooth on...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, character, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lazy Old River
There’s a lazy old river in the back of my mind
Our family would visit from time to time, 
Where the waters ran gently through countless...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, childhood, dad, family, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hold On To Your Hats
I started out the day
Pacing the floors
I couldn't believe it , 
Three week ends in a row

I fed the squirrels and birds
Then grabbed my purse...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, depression, life, nature, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cupid's Arrow
No hearts and flowers for me on Valentine's Day,
so Cupid, don't take aim with your arrows.
My heart will not allow love to sweep me away.

For...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wheelbarrow, emotions,
Form: Villanelle
Scarlet Portmanteau
Duke Luke by his bateau
Arrived at his chateau,
Had he travelled through large eau!

His mysterious rendez-vous 
with Henry Thoreau
Yielded him a scarlet portmanteau.

Entering his bureau,
he took...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, adventure, allegory, art, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Pass the Asylum
With a wheelbarrow full of manure 
For my strawberry patch,
Pushing past an asylum
I heard the gate latch,
An inmate emerged and said
What you got there?
I said...

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Categories: wheelbarrow, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs