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Best Wooden Spoon Poems

Below are the all-time best Wooden Spoon poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wooden spoon poems written by PoetrySoup members


My Black Wooden Spoon
With none in my infant's mouth, I was born
Even though a big silver spoon I craved
Of an affluence, I was left quite forlorn
Hence, contentment without...

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Categories: wooden spoon, courage, desire, metaphor, storm,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Seeds of Wisdom
A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from...

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Categories: wooden spoon, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Creamy Chicken Soup -
     When it's soup season on Poetry Soup
     Ingredients are in large selection
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Categories: wooden spoon, food, humor, together,
Form: Narrative
Saucy
When we stirred the pot
Mum pulled out the wooden spoon...

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Categories: wooden spoon, conflict, mom, sister, word
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Wisdom Tree
Wisdom Tree

A solitary man
Makes his way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life he knows further and further behind
He wishes to be alone
Away from...

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Categories: wooden spoon, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sentenced
They place my vowel
Under barren landscape

Sipping from cracked porcelain cup
Of an alienated heartbeat

Devilish grins
Slapping Karma’s bottom,
A quarterback’s misguided win

Liar’s prophetic retinas glaze
With metric, disciplinary ruler

They...

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Categories: wooden spoon, judgement, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member First Visit With Nikko
I stand at Nikko's door, for I'm now in the Philippines.
She greets me. Oh, how young she looks, like someone in her teens!

"You're just the...

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Categories: wooden spoon, friendship
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Coooking Green Beans
Cook the green beans
As you always do
When ready drain the water
Add a little oil then heat up 
For a minute can add garlic
Crack and egg...

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Categories: wooden spoon, food,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pancakes
Grab a wooden spoon, and choose a mixing bowl
A breakfast that is piping hot is worth its weight in gold!
You can make them by the...

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Categories: wooden spoon, food, fun, funny,
Form: Didactic
Social Conscious
Social conscious, the brain behind the hand,
it’s wooden spoon ready  to smack the non-conforming adult /s/,child/ren.
Driven by western views of political correctness,
it dictates how...

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Categories: wooden spoon, confusion, education, mystery, people,
Form: Free verse
Warm Sunday Morn
Flames race up the fireback
As sparks burst beneath the latest logs
The largest is well past seasoned
It will not last long in this late Winter third...

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Categories: wooden spoon, life, fish,
Form: Bio
Toothjacked
when i was a silly kid ,
'round the age of 17;
i pulled a trick on gran'ma,
it was really kind'a mean!

while gran'ma was a' snoozin',
like a...

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Categories: wooden spoon, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
Party Time
To a birthday party I was invited, 
as an 11 year old I should have been excited.
I really didn't want to go,
the people there I...

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Categories: wooden spoon, childhood, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Santas Surprise
I... thought Santa was cool,
Until he came into the house.
The old fart was pissed an swearing,
And what we saw, even killed my mouse.

He fell through...

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Categories: wooden spoon, funny, dad, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moon Spoon
I'd like to speak romantically of spooning and mooning but, alas,
My childhood inspired a thought much more vivid and, well, crass.
As a rule-breaker I oft...

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Categories: wooden spoon, childhood, funny, moon, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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