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Short Alcohol Poems

Short Alcohol Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Alcohol by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Alcohol by length and keyword.


Premium Member Betty

Betty was not very tall
Her shoes seem to be small
She walked with a limp
Mistaken for a gimp
Or an excess of alcohol
Form: Limerick


Kamaradi

Dizzying alcohol
What is the sense
I believe
So….
Une, deux, trios
What’s your problem
Business my friend – business
Form: ABC

In-Stilled - Triplet

To ease the damage from love’s withdraw
Here’s a remedy I learned from Pa:
Use alcohol as your wrecking ball


10/9/11
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rusty Pipes

Rusty Pipes Miracle Man 1/1/2025 He feared rusty pipes so my friend drunk no water, only alcohol!
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Troubled Family

Father in prison,
kids without discipline;
more fights, alcohol and weed...
mother gone with tough boyfriend:
troubled family.
Form: Sedoka


What Has Happened To Our Shows

Alcohol, drugs, and lies
   some of them die
   slaves to the stage
   fans filled with rage
   our favorites just say goodbye
Form: Limerick

Do Not Give Rodents Alcohol

Hickory Dickory Splotch
The Mouse glanced at his watch
The chime struck ten
The Mouse smiled then
And opened up his Scotch
Form: Rhyme

Self Analysis

Are you clinically obese?
Is your alcohol intake quite scary?
Do you like to dress up as a woman?
Then eat, drink and be Mary
Form:

Premium Member Light and Morning Sun

49
Alcohol
Why couldn’t you
Uncover the night
Be forgiven
Light and
Morning sun
Who said the beach
Would close
The gate
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member prison is for life

hotheaded action
a good friend is now deceased
sorrow and regret

alcohol and guns
a deadly combination
prison is for life
Form: Senryu

Premium Member I'll Drink to That!

Not to get too technical
or maybe sound nonsensical,
but a long time ago
chemists reached the conclusion
that alcohol is a solution!
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Saying Goodbye

I said goodbye today
To alcohol in a letter
In the partial program
Im so glad I said goodbye
And recognized alcohol
Is not my friend
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Lemonade Lucy

First Lady Lucy Ware Webb Hayes,
In 1877 changed White House ways.
Lemonade Lucy she was called,
'Cause she banned the use of alcohol.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member If Behind the Wheel

If behind the wheel, resist intoxication. Please don’t drink and drive. Alcohol impairs judgment. We want you to stay alive.
Form: Tanka

Drunk Gorilla

He can't sleep without alcohol.
What else can you expect from an old alcoholic but boasting!?
Staggering left and right and burning incense.
Form: Other

My Contst Pom

A limrick for Viv Wigly,
I had to scrawl my words so Kwigly,
Vino a proposal
Alcohol at disposal
I barf’d and my writing is Sqwigly

10/10/2016
Form: Limerick

What It Can Do

“One time I smoked pot behind a bush, and then I didn’t talk to anyone for 4 years.” 

-Shane G. 
Former roommate at my 6th drug and alcohol rehab
Form: Bio

Terry and His Ferry

There was a man called Terry
Who captained his own Ferry
When his ship hit a rock
He recovered from the shock
Drinking a bottle of Sherry.
Form: Limerick

Drunkard

I’m staring at the empty bottles 
On the floor. It’s time I start doing
Something, anything, to help you.
I call your name but, you will not reply.

Premium Member appealing taste

A lemony drink that is mellow
Alcohol sugar zest yellow
Unlike its fruit tree
It's said with a long e
In Sorrento they make limoncello
Form: Limerick

On the Rocks

Some ships  founder on the rocks.
Such sad things come to pass.
Relationships! They founder too,
if not upon a rocky shore,
then in a whiskey glass.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In Doing Less

125
In doing less
And thinking more
I have thought of much
And learned nothing
In chasing this disease
I am powerless over alcohol
And I begin AA
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Alcohol

Glad for two year's
thank you
cause twenty two heed stomach
drowning brain's 
maybe for you, it's cool
slowly returning to shore
thank God for two

Premium Member Limerick Joke Iv

My bride and I on a pub crawl
Near a bar my brain can't recall
Mnemonic power!
I'm thinking "thorned flower"
Which spot dear Rose sells the alcohol?
Form: Limerick

Pour Me a Cold One

Alcohol, just isn't  for me.

Carbonation and I, don't agree.

     So what do you think,

     is my favorite drink?

The answer my friend, is Iced Tea!
Form: Limerick

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