Cold Shoulder Poems | Examples


Premium MemberCold Shoulder

Chocolate ice cream, you've been waiting,
But my temptation is abating..
I've laid to rest the chocolate ooze,
Today, there's another one I choose.
Sending regards to both bean and cow,
Caramel crunch is my main squeeze now.
Categories: cold shoulder, food,
Form: Rhyme

Cold Shoulder

The weather around is quite cold sometimes,
The glorious plants are now a frozen sight.
The always angry sea is locked in a frigid bite,
The beautiful sky is now grey, black and white.
The sound of happiness is now pitch silence and cries,
The oh so twinkling stars are now a sight for the sore eyes.
The crackling laughter now comes in a disguise,
Once wise thoughts are now depressing lines,
This always romanticized cold is now my dreadful state of mind.
Categories: cold shoulder, cool, winter, words, write,
Form: Rhyme


Cold Shoulder

The side of a road’s called a shoulder, but why?
The resemblance, to me, isn’t striking.
The berm or the edge, a more literal choice,
Would be, somehow, much more to my liking.

I enjoy a good metaphor when apropos
But in this case I’m driven to wonder
Why not elbow or ankle or even an ear – 
All could help to keep stop lanes asunder.

Who came up with this phrase? Not a bureaucrat, no.
Maybe somebody clever with wordin’
And because of his efforts, we’re left, to this day,
With the need to thus shoulder the burden.
Categories: cold shoulder, words,
Form: Rhyme

Cold Shoulder

Accepting an unpleasant certainty.
The poignant silence of an empty home.
Unanswered calls relay disharmony.

The world is melancholy monochrome.
No person should be made to feel ashamed
Of intimate emotions. Left to roam. 

I know I shouldn’t cast abrasive blame, 
But pain can make me act in ways inapt.
I’m left to wonder, was it all just games?

No sense of closure. Have my heart strings snapped?
With ev’ry passing moment all alone 
I know the doors are closing, I am trapped.

An icy rain is falling ‘pon my throne.
Categories: cold shoulder, absence, anxiety, dark, heartbreak,
Form: Terza Rima

Cold Shoulder

have been given
the cold shoulder 
icy cold encounters 
are now the new norm 
within our realm of reality
the sea of change hath frozen over
there is black ice upon the broken 
bridge of chance 
tried to move across the iced over sea 
suddenly the ice began to creak underneath
my bare feet then the ice finally broke 
causing me to fall into the freezing water
tried to escape the icy waters 
was able to finally pull myself 
back up onto the icy surface 
did not come out unscathed as 
a result of the fall i experienced 
emotional frostbit
Categories: cold shoulder,
Form: Lyric


A Sun Kissed Cold Shoulder

closer to the sun                                                                                                                                                                  yet blushing earth shied away                                                                                                                                                    so winters are cold
Categories: cold shoulder, earth, seasons, sun, winter,
Form: Haiku

Cold Shoulder Voices

Angel on hindsight
Foul on an area of light. A vanishing monk.
A living stalk. A living hen.
Drumroll - please.
Hence we fly, I dry.
What do we say, quiet please.
I fly like an eagle. I walk like the empty spirit.
Ecstatic Bombastic Flying.
Bravo my friend, you are welcome to heaven.
Categories: cold shoulder, autumn,
Form: Narrative

The Cold Shoulder

cold has come this winter’s night                                                                 breaking ice was hard enough                                                                              a face over your shoulder                                                                                       silence was warmer
Categories: cold shoulder, heartbreak, humor, lonely, romance,
Form: Dodoitsu

Cold Shoulder

Standing in the cold, staring off into the distance,
I feel that I am not alone, though inside I know,
a warm hand will not be placed on my shoulder,
that will not be my comfort today, always never.
Categories: cold shoulder, emotions, hurt, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse

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Categories: cold shoulder, seasons
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