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Best Stumpy Poems

Below are the all-time best Stumpy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stumpy poems written by PoetrySoup members


Stumpy
I fell in love with a tree stump
It’s five foot two and lovingly plump
Wood is my life 
My wonderful wife
I clean the splinters in me...

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Categories: stumpy, funny
Form: Limerick



Stumpy
There was a tree where I grew up
  That I spent many happy hours on.
  The swinging tire, the branches high
  Ever...

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Categories: stumpy, childhood, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member High Noon Stumpy
There was an old cowboy named Stumpy 
Who's laugh sounded just like a donkey
He smelled like a skunk
High noon he'd get drunk
And then with the...

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Categories: stumpy, western,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dachshund
Some folks call me a sausage dog
I think they couldn’t be meaner
It’s not my fault I’m long and short
And look like a misshapen wiener

I’ve got...

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Categories: stumpy, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Contact
I could be strolling on a river bank,
or sitting in a managed park.
I could be walking on a saltbush plain,
or where soil is parched and...

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Categories: stumpy, bereavement, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Memoirs of An Old Man, the Laughing Version
‘I rant until i tattle.’
An old man said to me.
With boulders brass in battle
For Country, Queen and sea.

Lest not aghast a fattie,
Good heavens or abode.
We...

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Categories: stumpy, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Limerick Crochetes Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi Lord of the Lollypoppians
Limerick crochetés: Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi, Lord of the Lollypoppians
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stumpy, satire,
Form: Limerick
The Long Way Home
trotting across my back field
there’s a storm brewing-in
it’s misty friend is climbing 
through the cold, prickly wires

Delicately drenched, 
as wet as 
a dog’s kiss,
there’s a-storm...

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Categories: stumpy, art, devotion, friendship, happiness,
Form: Ballad
The Picnic
The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.

Until one day, a raunchy...

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Categories: stumpy, adventure, celebration, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration
Dobermans' Can Write - Can'T Talk
"What we've got here is a very serious language barrier, not mine!
Let me introduce myself, I'm Tricky, a Doberman Pinscher and a thoroughbred.
My Dad Mick,...

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Categories: stumpy, pets,
Form: Personification
Gnawing Resentment
He gnawed on his resentment
In public and alone
Like a dog he kept on worrying
The marrow from the bone
Till he gave himself an ulcer
Till his teeth...

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Categories: stumpy, anger, conflict, dog, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Gregor the Slowest
Gregor the slowest
Felt nothing but fear
To prove he was worthy
He must kill a deer
A great giant bat
Was chasing him far
He ran and he ran
Towards that...

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Categories: stumpy, class, courage, fear, funny,
Form: Epic
Hydrant
Red, short, and stumpy
Ready to go any time
I'll hook up my hose...

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Categories: stumpy, allah,
Form: Abecedarian
Spring Rose
the purple leaves
unroll their sleeves
to frosty days
and longing rays

the thorny twigs
and stumpy-pruned sticks
secretly hides deep inside
the summer’s petalled pride

but sap will rise
to cloudy skies
to meet...

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Categories: stumpy, nature, rose, seasons, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Come Lover Mine
In village Taraigh
smoky limbs - gaunt grey
arms akimbo
twirl an' sweep from stumpy stacks,
peep faces from chimneys
to dark night falling
whilst 'draggled' owl cedes to instincts
navigation near...

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© Emma Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stumpy, fantasy, love, myth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things