Harmless Poems | Examples

you promised

You promised me the days we sung and cooked and danced, painting each others nails would come back someday

You promised me, so i sat restless, watching the pass of everyday, pass me by, memories souring as the clock ran 

Harmless illusions wipe away as i realize what i had been surrounded by, with each spent sunday i realised i was lucky when you ran away

Harmful children come from hazardus playgrounds,i was raised to bring pain, i know a million ways that i can

You promised, something so insignificant, you are someone who should never have been given a second thought, so why do i feel this way

You promised something so small, years later something that didn’t matter yet my mind still paints you a con-man

Harmless was never really a word i’d have thought to use for you unless in a singular action like today

Harmful even when you don’t realise i guess your the same in one way, you were a liar before our relationship began
Categories: harmless, betrayal, boyfriend, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membera harmless window peeper

A harmless window peeper
That is what Madeline thought
She gave the man many chances
Kept his voyeurism to herself

No sense in bothering others
Not worried, she continued working in her home
On Tuesday she disappeared, due to the window peeper
He is peeping into another woman’s window now
Categories: harmless, mystery,
Form: Free verse


Termite

Oh,my dear tech termite,                                                                  You have harmless bite,                                                          
 Are you afraid of light?                                                              
 I have seen you in night,                                                       Your social system is bright,                                                  Are you the ants of white ?                                                     You never escape my sight.
Categories: harmless, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Bells ring

Zen loving chimes,
Our exquisite times,
Spring chickens reborn,
"Still awake?" We yawn.
Basically harmless, you see,
Dreams are fantasy.
Categories: harmless, appreciation, emotions, encouraging, friendship
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThey Looked So Harmless

Three little old ladies came to Chester’s door
He did not know it but he had met them all before.
One had lived with him and took care of his children four.
Another he had been engaged too, but jilted with the girl next door.

The girl next door was the last one to arrive, she was holding out tea.
It is rather delicious, she told him, our secret womanly apricot recipe.
The police had no clues that day in the death of Chester.
The three hags went home grinning and said, “now we go after Fester.”

Fester was Chester’s twin, and he had been evil to them too.
They frequented his Michigan doorstep at a quarter past two.
Come in! He said. I have been expecting some gorgeous gals like you.
They watched him as he tasted their offering and turned a brilliant blue.
Categories: harmless, women,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberThe Force of Gravity

Attraction of the force of gravity
Prevents us from falling out into space
What will prevent we mankind 
From falling into evils
Education maybe
Religion maybe
Our conscience maybe
Maybe we're born innocent and harmless
And we gradually pick up evils because of greeds and temptations 
Maybe we're born a saint
But finally lost in the fight against evils
Whatever it's 
A salvation by the almighty God is needed
Just like the enormous force of gravity
Categories: harmless, evil, religion,
Form: Free verse

The Harmless Walkway

Walk for peace as quiet as a stranger 
Tread softly without digress on this road
It does look so lovely to endanger
So, neither jump nor leap like a smart toad 

Switch left or right if that is your own wish 
Just don't change the channel to trade urge 
Interconnected scopes will soon vanish 
All boosting swags will openly converge 

What a shame to the secret explorer! 
With many voluntary and shameful mess 
Like a bedmate sleepless nights with snorer 
Continuations merely stand to impress 

How a loyalist turned a turncoat prey 
The best means to serve a free turn its sway
Categories: harmless, anxiety, art, emotions, fear,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberHarmless Or Serious

Hurgle-y, Gurgle-y
Gastrointestinal
Silly sounds stomachs make:
Borborgymi!

Reflux and GERD both see
Hyperacidity,
Heartburn and stomach aches:
More Tums for me!

—————

Note to self: Double Dactyl, somewhat akin to a limerick… A dactyl is a three syllable word with the emphasis on the first syllable. 

This one opens with a nonsense double dactyl, then must use a 6 syllable word on line 2, then another double dactyl, closing out with a dactyl + 1.

A second stanza has the same format. The two stanzas are to be related, and their 4th lines should rhyme. 

I'm a little unclear on the naming convention, so I phrased it as something that could be answered by reading the two stanzas

So that’s my first effort, not terribly sure if it was successful...
Categories: harmless, health,
Form: Double Dactyl

Premium MemberHarmless Heartache

I never thought the pain could make me feel this way
Getting over you will take some time I hear them say
I thought that I’d forget you, control my life and make
The memory of your sweet love, a harmless heartache

I was not brand new to love, I’d had a round or two
But no one ever made me feel the way you always do
It’s not a harmless heartache when it burns you deep inside
This heart feels every memory and knows the tears I’ve cried

If I could bring her back again I’d never let her go
I’d treat her like a queen now that I know the things I know
You’re playing with the hottest fire, you think your heart won’t break
Then you’ll see you can’t escape the harmless heartache

Just a harmless heartache, I’m feeling here tonight
You’d still be here with me, and we’d hold each other tight
But you say I’ll be better off, and so just for my sake
You left me here alone to bear my harmless heartache
Categories: harmless, emotions, farewell, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberClose Your Eyes

Close your eyes
And a new world will be formed 
In your "meditation"
Calm and harmless
You'll become what you wanted to be
The world  will become small and attainable
Your loved ones are always there smiling
Reborn yourself in your mind
Although what will be will be 
But you're always your true self in your mind
Although no one understand your plight
But God does and always does
Categories: harmless, god, image, self, world,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHarmless Guest

Harmless guest


Underneath Zoom chair
Some small creature fleeing in confusion

Ah ha, a brown lizard, harmless four-legged guest

Hiding and scared, aren’t you?
So am I
Please do not visit me in bed tonight

Mi-casa-su-casa
prey on insects and spiders all you want
and Thank you
for house cleaning service

Mi-casa-su-casa
Enjoy this big playground
hanging out in small covered spaces
under any couches, chairs, desks, bookshelves, or tables in the house
Closets, vents, baseboards, cushions, and potted plants
unlimited places to hide

One early morning
A two-legged guest picks up his underpants
Surprise!
A four-legged guest skydive dropping onto the ground
fleeing in amusement
Categories: harmless, animal, clothes, funny, house,
Form: Free verse

'totally Harmless'

No arithmetic is required*
But Trump is peculiarly wired
He sure needs an hint
4.5%
Are "totally harmless" expired!


* Grade school students
INSTANTLY know 1% of
293,000,000 = 29,300!
Categories: harmless, health, math, political,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberI'M Harmless

I’m an unwitting symbol of fear
just on Halloween night every year.
I’m a pet, someone’s lovely black cat--
not a goblin, a ghoul, or a bat!


three anapests per line


Date: October 31, 2019
Contest Title: Good Luck Halloween Poem     second picture
Sponsor: Eve Roper
                 Placed 1st

July 26, 2022
entered in the Bite Size Poem no. 50 Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories: harmless, cat, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHarmless Old Geezer

A harmless old geezer who loves everybody
It's the creed I live by, the cream of the croppy 
It's my lot in life
A secret device
Used since forever, I learned from my Poppy
Categories: harmless, fun,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberA Harmless Creature

A Harmless Creature is the Ant,
   Until it crawls inside your pant,
Or invites itself to your picnic table,
   Intending your little picnic to disable.  

And of course, there's always the kitchen floor
   That it ruins in waves of "zillions more." 
Yes, a harmless creature is the ant,
   ---As harmless as a nuclear power plant.
Categories: harmless, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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