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Cans Poems - Poems about Cans

Watering Cans
Watering Cans The latest water restrictions will add an extra sadness to the before the present time sad watering cans here and there. ...

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Categories: cans, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three hundred cans of soup
In three hundred, I pulled without fear, From my dentition, a grin quite sincere Clichés serve as my balm, In the chaos, my psalms Yet to some; I might seem quite unclear, With words throbbing back in my head, I ponder the things that I've said Did commentation run dry, As I reached for the sky? Or am I just tangled in dread? The gallery,...

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Categories: cans, poetry, poets, riddle,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Mad Iventions You'd Never Dream Of Part 2
Somehow, I don't think they sold many. I actually bought a tin But didn't read the label When I got home I put my glasses on And threw it in the bin What a S... Idea Whatever were they thinking of? I can just Imagine Someone having a eureka moment! I fear Yes! We'll sell millions Could you think of a worse name? I wonder what other...

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Categories: cans, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dented cans
How I see cans getting dented -angry customers over price increases...

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Categories: cans, fun,
Form: Monoku
Where the Cans Are
Alone and hungry left leg aches like a broken peg in the mugginess of its left slipper. Not a good day for fixing anything but the sealed and over salted, the quickly warmed and spooned that can be mixed into a taste-less medley with other sundry comestibles. The pantry, (a recessed place with shelf-space), is a dimly lit store for long kept canned products, a once...

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Categories: cans, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Dime a Dozen
(A guy told me today with total confidence that for women, men are a dime a dozen. That has never been my experience which inspired me to pen this piece.) I could have collected empty soda cans from the side of the road and cashed them in They were worth five cents apiece back then I only needed...

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Categories: cans, angst, boyfriend, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Candy 'Cans'
Halloween night, there are only candy 'cans' -- no can'ts ~ Back at home, kids treat their parents to a 'Sugar Dance'...

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Categories: cans, dance, halloween, sweet,
Form: Couplet
Sloganin Dell Whicha Way
They mixed black paint in the Cobb and concrete mixture. The other batch contained a mixture of white paint and Shallac. When the mixed the mixture I wasn't thrilled, not knowing this was done to make me excited. After the mix had cured, they used handsaws to cut blocks of stone to create the wall. I marveled at the creation. I gasped with amazment looking At the beautiful...

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Categories: cans, business, color, dance, drink,
Form: Ballad
Painting the Trash Cans
Senior year, student government I couldn’t do anything right When told to paint the trash cans Our class colors, blue and white I added my own touch to the job Always doing too much Scrawled my name on all the bins Hoping to gain more fame Some thought I was uncool, to Expose myself to the whole school All I was supposed to do Was to...

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Categories: cans, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shopping Carts and Garbage Cans
May I tell you something interesting for a moment? My favorite hobby is knocking over garbage cans with a shopping cart. Don't think it's weird, people do it all the time, so it's natural. There are so many life lessons I learn when I use a shopping cart like keeping my anger under control, pigeons...

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Categories: cans, hilarious, humor, humorous, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dented Cans
DENTED CANS Took a bag of trash To the curb inside the bag Garbage, dented cans 1/11/18 Original contest Dented Cans For Contest: 'A STUNNER JANUARY 2018' Contest Info Sponsored by: Line Gauthier...

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Categories: cans, analogy, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
Dented Cans
DENTED CANS At first pristine in form and colour bright They glittered in the clear warm air of youth With dreams and goals attainable in our sight Then framed in words unstrained by filtered truth To have, to do, to be, without a question With faith that what’s imagined may gain life Those holy grails of dreams beyond suggestion Before opposing forces entered...

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Categories: cans, dream, life, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Dented Cans
I remember those Dented tin cans The string communication Of my childhood. We lived in first story houses, Telling their fourth or fifth As we stood on the other side Of a world without the grey. Eyes screwed shut, We shouted excitement into Our fathermade walkie talkies Chicken noodle Clam Chowder We were always running wild Chasing what we already had Our adventure and That’s gone You said Life ends...

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Categories: cans, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethical Dilemma of the Dented Cans
Walking, walking, walking, walking, Slower and slower and slower, And s-l-o-w-e-r, And s-s-l-l-o-o-w-e-r still. Barely moving... Eyes shut tight... Footsteps weaving... Intestines heaving... Racked by Hunger and Thirst, Thirst and Hunger, Hunger and Thirst: Woe is He and He is Woe; He'll die of Starvation, Unless his throat cracks first... ...Lost in a desert of endless sand, So many poets choose to end Such a tale without taking a...

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Categories: cans, confusion, death, emotions, hero,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Grandma's Tin Cans
As lamplight flicks on the side table Grandma tends a pan of lukewarm water, And moves into the room toward the bed Wishing my fever would cool down sooner . Her hand clutches old tin cans, quite dented And pours out ginger oil, raspberry in a bowl With vaporous mix of weed as fire reddens... The brew, the potion simmers on...

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Categories: cans, health, sick,
Form: Light Verse

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