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Best Cane Poems

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Premium Member White Cane
He walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man

With a white cane, in...

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Categories: cane, community, history, memory,
Form: Pantoum
Love's Like Sugar Cane
Love's Like Sugar Cane

Tender tendrils
of the same vine, 
we entwine
with hearts a fluttering, 
beating ecstatically as one, 
floating on wings
of iridescent butterflies, 
satisfyingly satiated by
love...

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Categories: cane, love, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
My Candy Cane Train
Dark Chocolate Rivers sinfully twist

...through marshmallow trees in May

Cotton candy webs clenched in my fist

Music-box songs lightly play 

Cupcake Merry-Go-Round safely sings

As I watch the...

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© Jane Bowen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cane, adventure, fantasy, children, imagination,
Form: Rhyme




Premium Member Trustworthy Cane
Trustworthy cane, beside me rests so near,
A steadfast friend, in every weather clear.
Through rain or shine, it lights my way,
A loyal guide, night and day.

In...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cane, age,
Form: Personification
Candy Cane Lane
Down On Candy Cane Lane

Several Elves Burst Into Flame

Rudolph Was Sad

But, Santa Was Mad

Knowing Spiked Eggnog Was To Blame.



Santa Put The Drink On A Shelf

Too...

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Categories: cane, funny, holiday,
Form: Limerick
Candy Cane Sticks
CANDY CANE STICKS

bent little crooks
red and white 
stripes
help us swallow
Christmascrass
hype 

succor sugar comforts
stuffed stocking taboo

peppermint sticks
disabling treats
bow to licking
lips

spry little hooks that
stoop to bingecringe
stick sickly...

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Categories: cane, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Candy Cane
Red and white stripes round
and round the long shepherd's crook
sweet and refreshing
the first one of the season
most certainly not the last....

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Categories: cane, food, holiday, seasons
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Candy Cane
stripe of red and white
a sweet twist of mint flavor
a cane for christmas...

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Categories: cane, appreciation, candy, christmas, sweet,
Form: Haiku
The Old Happy Candy Cane Maker and the Inquisitive Little Boy Senryu
happy stranger knows
little boy wants candy canes
he makes them right there...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cane, candy, boy,
Form: Senryu
From Cane To Carriage
two McWhirtles

My cane has gone missing,
Hoveround showed up
of whom I sing praise for
supporting my girth.

I rise to stand strong on
two legs that are weakened,
and feel...

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Categories: cane, 11th grade, humor,
Form: McWhirtle
Premium Member Broke My Cane
Going for a jog in the park today
Who am I kidding, what a silly thing to say
Walking is a chore
And furthermore
Broke my cane last week...

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Categories: cane, fun,
Form: Limerick
Cane Pole
I was just a kid back then
Just a skinny boy of ten
Walkin’ barefoot
With my ol’ cane pole

A covered bridge provided shade
As sounds the ripplin’ water...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cane, emotions, introspection, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
As Coffee Greets Suager Cane
Clucking in the barnyard awaits the dawn
With the smooth raucous of morning.
Sheep dogs rise, stretch and yawn
While expecting the morning meal.
The horses lazily doze in...

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Categories: cane, life, people, social, farm,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Raisin Cane
RAISIN CANE

There was a dried-up grape who became uncaring and overbearing
So one might say he became one brazen raisin
      ...

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Categories: cane, angst,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member For Pangie
Hey my brave poetry sis from across the pond,
We don’t comment too often but we have a,
Common bond,
Our Greek blood is what makes us fighters,
We...

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Categories: cane, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs