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Gumboots Poems - Poems about Gumboots

Gumboots Poems - Examples of all types of poems about gumboots to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for gumboots.
Wear Your Odd Socks With Pride
...Wear your odd socks with pride, No need for them to, in your gumboots hide, Of funny looks, I don't give a darn, As I can spin a good yarn. Is it better to have odd socks, Or no socks? That ......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, absence, blessing, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Grook



July Winter Storm
...trees along the fence line strain stretched tight by the wind turning inside and out leaves in all directions buffeting and thrashing in the howling gale sheets of horizontal rain hammer th......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, weather, winter,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Billy Carts and Marbles
...Billy Carts and Marbles Yes, we all played marbles when we were just kids, Had a big ‘Tom Bowler’ and a bag full of migs. Held onto your marble with fingers and thumb No fudging allowed, and yo......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Evenings In Springtime : Nov 2021
...Babies cry, sleep, change nappies, feed. Toddlers drink water from cups. Younger brothers, younger sister, older brother, older sister, small town, large country. One lane roads, one lane bridges, u......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Green Thumbs and Climate Change
...Our ability to fight climate change, May well depend on the number of green thumbs, We vote for, to lead the charge. This may lead to thumb printing all candidates, For all positions to check ......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, analogy, baptism, confidence, destiny,
Form: Burlesque



Bateson's Dam
...The universal worm has got some competition now, since ‘Sandy’ took me out to Bateson’s dam. This don’t include the ‘whitchys’ we get in a broken bough, nor ‘scrubbies’ on the hooks we have to cra......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, fishing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walking Side By Side
...My little feet tripping walking begun To keep up with my mothers bigger ones And quietly years just roll alongside With walking running matching stride for stride I wonder when those little feet......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, growing up, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Catching Raindrops
...It poured for a fortnight The clouds floating like angels in the sky Streams of rivulets on a downward turn ’Twas our turn to solve a mystery,me at nine Of catching raindrops from an open sky. ......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, childhood, happiness, rain,
Form: Free verse
Learn To Read
...Playing once in the back yard, Sis kicked the cat really hard, Snowy over the back fence went, Red gumboots did have vent, "Sit and read," my sis said, 'c...a...t' says cat, I read, "The cat is......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, animal, cat, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
How To Recognise An Expert When You See One
...An expert is a strange bird, That is often, Rightly taken for the fool that they are. The true expert however, Has not been blinded by science, Does not carry a trumpet, Take out full page a......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, analogy, art, beautiful, best
Form: Imagism
Gumble Boot Problem
...Miss Five whimpered as she walked from the house, Her feet hurt and caused her to grouse. She made many stops \ and not a few small hops W......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, animal,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Naked To Nurture Naked, To Nurture
...Naked to Nurture. Naked, to Nurture. Why not naked into woods? We yank up gumboots. Enshroud our piggies in wicking and itching sockbags. Hoping to holdfast against the forfeiture o......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, art, philosophy, tree,
Form: Free verse
Not a Gumboot In Sight
...If you wander into your local school or preschool, What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots, And does it matter if you find none. If you think it no, Then fast forward to th......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, appreciation, baptism, blessing, character,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Walking Through Snow
...How boastful the way I rode a sled To flaunt my gumboots as drag pads fled, I walked through cold snow Fell off with pants low; Exposing my hairy legs instead. ......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, self, snow,
Form: Limerick
The Ballad of Stinking Mick
...The Ballad of Stinking Mick Now Mick hung close to a Butt verbose, And the cheese it ran like treacle, Some said it was on the bloody nose, That he lived, was thought unbelievable, For h......Read the rest...
Categories: gumboots, adventure,
Form: Ballad

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