Best Yard Poems
Below are the all-time best Yard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of yard poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
yard, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
A girl named SuePOTW 1 Oct 2018
Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...
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Categories:
yard, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Library of Trust and HopeThe Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope
(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)
She was all but...
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Categories:
yard, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form:
Light Verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
yard, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Redneck SantaT'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...
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Categories:
yard, christmas, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter's AntidoteO Winter, why this desolation? Trees, once verdant now stand bare
Flowers, long in hibernation; clouds that frown with ominous stare,
Bleak winds chill the rain-soaked bones...
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Categories:
yard, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Four SistersSpring stirs her eager young
Giving life, renewed to those
Who stand about and doze
She whispers hope of things begun
Beneath winter's cold repose.
Summer, smiling golden rays
With ample...
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Categories:
yard, nature, seasons,
Form:
Personification
Time MachineRide with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...
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Categories:
yard, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form:
Couplet
Intrusion in the Fray:response to Tom
Forgive intrusion in the fray
I'm making comments today
Tom's limericks, three
were cute as can be
But of Kim and Jack, I must say.....
We all know how well...
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Categories:
yard, poetry,
Form:
Limerick
Season Of September
Sunlight falls in breezy dapples
across your lichened stone,
solace now I seek in chapel’s
old yard while we’re alone.
It brings my heart back, being here -
love; that...
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Categories:
yard, appreciation, autumn, grave, grief,
Form:
Lyric
Welcome Spring
clouds like sheep
grazing in the blue
scatter on the breeze
How marvelous was the first week of March in my state. The temperatures exceeded my hopeful expectations....
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Categories:
yard, spring,
Form:
Haibun
SURVIVAL IN THE MIDST OF IGNORANCE
My prayers are not asking you to
save me from my enemy.
My children have turned their backs.
They praise dance with many
Adversaries-
When...
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Categories:
yard, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form:
Classicism
Before the Rain is GoneShe kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.
Inside her was a garden
that was...
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Categories:
yard, fantasy, imagination, naturerain, blue,
Form:
Rhyme
The UnicornThe Unicorn
Once upon a time…
an incredible event occurred that was so sublime.
On a warm summer night many years ago,
awakened by the rhythmic tempo
of hoof beats...
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Categories:
yard, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Florida Keys PleaseNo litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...
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Categories:
yard, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient Shadows Awaken into God's LightAncient Shadows Awaken into God’s Light
Underneath the deep seabed the stirring sands of time have passed on.
Ancient shadows continue to haunt all of us from...
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Categories:
yard, dark, dream, evil, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Grey Wind**Dedicated to those who preceded us and gave their blood, sweat and tears, so we can have the luxuries they could not**
The wind whispers, the...
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Categories:
yard, father, grandparents, mother, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The RoosterThe Rooster
He strutted ‘cross the barnyard tall and proud,
away from all the bustle of the crowd;
the other roosters in the yard felt cowed,
to him they...
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Categories:
yard, allegory, animal, humorous,
Form:
Personification
One Life
There have been those who said, ...
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Categories:
yard, food, green, home, jobs,
Form:
Narrative
Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...
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Categories:
yard, family, house, life,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
yard, food, snow, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
PROMISE OF HOPE--EDITED
Streaks of anguish like drooping trees
Entrap pale hours across nightscape ,
Then crushing low upon my feet
Each leaf's motion reflects one bid
In neutral shades...
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Categories:
yard, blessing, devotion,
Form:
Blank verse
Seasons of a Fruitful Tree
I love my little corner of the yard
when nearby Lilac Bush perfumes the air.
The human dwellers treat me with regard.
They sit behind their house and...
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Categories:
yard, tree,
Form:
Personification
My Brick and Piece of LumberMighty proud was I
with me lumber in one hand
my brick me carried in the other
I placed the brick in the barn yard
tall side for gained...
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Categories:
yard, funny, humanity, humorous, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
A Passing ShadowBehind our house, below the deck
with its pleasing benches and sylvan view,
the back yard we have descends steeply
to a little stream called Chimacum Creek.
It is...
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Categories:
yard, pets,
Form:
Free verse