Short Cape Poems

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


Winter Is Hanging Tight

It’s cold and wet in Cape Town today, 
Winter is hanging tight. 
I hope tomorrow bring warmer climes.
I hope the sun shines bright.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member No Gooders

Do gooders are hard to escape.
They're addicted to wearing the cape.
With less than a clue
Of what's good for you,
They insert then deny it's a rape!
Form: Limerick

The Red Cape of Mars

The Red Cape
Of mars 
Captures this
Florescent wind
In a time machine
Then, hurls
This vessel 
Beyond these 
Sacred stars
Comfort me
Red cape of Mars

Premium Member On a Wet Cape Town Street

A hat like Melania's
casts her face in shadow—
a yellow bouquet clasped in her hands	
above a fluttering white skirt—
the full moon has her back
as he passes by.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member CAPE WINDS

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cape wind fills the sails~ white wings skimming indigo, tipping toward the sun. Salt-spray arcs in laughing light
Form: Other


Cape Cod Mornings

You love the Ocean
as it comes
I love the Ocean
as it goes
Caught in its tide
of becoming
Washed in the change
— of its flow

(Yarmouth Massachusetts: September, 1974)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cape Leveque

( Rani )


If I could
My beautiful niece
I would gift you
The last of my days
As this would mean
The sooner It will be
Again
‘Together
We will walk on 
The beach at
Cape Leveque

Cape Town

The Cape Point of Africa, where cold and warm oceans meet, boasting the beauty of our table mountain covered by a table cloth of cotton cloud.

Cape Town,
South Africa
10/03/2016
Form: Verse

Doubling Cape Horn

Doubling Cape Horn is live or die.
Waves as high as thirty meters
Mean as a Zulu’s assegai
Well known down there as hell greeters
We be seamen every last one
For us passage is good as done
Form: Rhyme

Question

For those who want to travel throughout the sparkling magic of space, 
to see meteors crashing on planets,
Icy comets passing by and dead moons revolving…
Just where do you think you are now?

Tales of Light - 2 Point 1

I
Without computing Light Years (LY)
Rain could join Space-Time
For making accessible rainbows

II
I walked under - the greatest Arch
White-clad sprites streamed promises -
edible flavors, rainbow colors
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Morning In the Cape

Early morning
The mist is still asleep on the lonely well polished grass
The birds are crying
I'm stuck with this load on my back
Morning in the Cape
Busy life, people having fun
The pavement is my bed
The insects are my friends
Welcome to my world
art
Form: Bio

The North Cape

the wind of old nails
             broken stones
the sky a gulit of rain
all these stunted trees
             grasp over wet moss
seagulls are unborn children
that cry over the tundra
this is the end of a measured world
this is the e nd ofa mea sured wor ld

Rain

It’s pouring down rain, big puddles on the street,
School is out, at the bus stop the kids all meet.
The girls have red capes and carry umbrella’s,
Black boots and raincoats are worn by the fella’s.
At home I’ll change into my PJ’s made of silk,
Then Mom will give me some cookies and milk.
Form: Rhyme

Cape Cod

From a distance a lighthouse horn blows
The mist settles in, fishermen do not go 
A beacon light gleams and attracts 
Sights and sounds, from a warning tract.
 
From a distance, harbor lights in a row
Tides smooth over, ripples are low
Seagulls landing, shells lie about
This must be Cape Cod no doubt
Form: Rhyme

Easter On the Cape Flats

On Good Friday after church we eat
curried pickled fish and hot crossed buns
and drink black coffee because we share
in the painful agony of the Lord.
On Easter Sunday after church we braai *
meat and drink like fish and rejoice
in the victory over death and grave.

* (rhymes with "bye" ) - barbeque / barbecue
Form: Kwansaba

The Cape

The cape 
It's a sunny, cold day on the Cape.
I long to be there to walk on the beach. 
The air is cold from the north breeze. 
That brings the waves that tap the shore.
You can hear the roar of the surf as night will begin to fall.
The birds are gone for the day, will sing another day.
As this day ends here on the cape

Premium Member Cape Town's Festival

stars light up the sky power switch turned on… festive lights bring festive cheer
*The City's Festive Lights are switch on early in December which marks the beginning of all festivities in Cape Town for Christmas and the New Year.. A concert is held in the City Center before the lights are switched on at 8pm*
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Cape Doctor

Trees and the branches in unison
As she continues her onslaught 
Dress or skirt not viable
She blows everything
Meet the Cape Doctor
Smog disappear
A gorgeous
Cape Town 
Showed






*we have a south easterly 
wind here in Cape Town 
named the Cape Doctor
because when it 
blows you have got 
to make sure you cling 
to something or someone lol*
Form: Nonet

Pre - Valentine's Sky

I
Delicious evening
Furtive moon, modest stars
2023 but ancient Sky

II
Cooler, Eastern Cape evenings - delicious
Blazing hot days, 40 degrees Celsius
Give way to ancient ways, in the stars
Only a few tonight (why?) And Venus perhaps?
Two of the four stars in a box, outshone the rest
 - when Moon escaped the cloudy hedge
A few belts with triune stars consoled me
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Cape Schank

The waves go crashing on the rocks
The cliffs are grey and red
Childrens’ voices ring out clear
As the gulls go ghosting  by

The sea feels colder than the blue it looks
Next stop Antartica helps
In summer ice cream still helps
To calm flustered bodies

A ship sail serenely by
As the seal struggles to grip
On the headland camera shutters click
Capturing the moment
Form:

Premium Member Cape May

See the Victorian style homes of an earlier day. There are plenty of them around Cape May. The sea birds seem to laugh as they fly. Ubiquitously, they fill the summer sky. Frolic in the sand and the surf by the sea. This is the southernmost tip of New Jersey. Walk along the boardwalks and taste the salt water taffy. This vacation spot is a place for the whole family.
Form: Rhyme

Cape Hatteras Light

White as day and dark as night,
Sitting as a candle bright.
Standing lonely on a shore, 
Guiding ships that sail once more.

Ocean churning, birds in flight,
Staircase spirals out of sight.
Sands of gold lie at your feet,
Longing for the sea to meet.

Silent guiding straight and true, 
Years on end you’ve weathered through.
Always faithful as a friend,
Always treasured till the end.
Form: Rhyme

The Cape of Death

Rose petals fall slowly behind the cape of death
Approaching our side our cheek she would caress

Fear not the separation of body and the soul
Whether it be quick or slow
Sometime we'll have to go

There's not a man alive who will never join the dead
All have an appointed time, a destiny with death

Since we all have to die, can we not accept the fate?
What's on the other side is the reason we're afraid
Form: Rhyme

Plastic Americans In Cape Town and Elsewhere

In South Africa, we imitate Thanksgiving, even "Black Friday!"
Is it business or American culture-wannabees
I hear awkward Howdys; "How U doing?" Narratives of "space ...customer care"
Just as plastic bags decorate sidewalks, veld, pretty cities. Krag, "power,"
Is out more than "on," and the same for water "Loadshedding,"
One of of very own phrases, as with 'State Capture' by WaBenzi
The newest tribe that found state funds for that German car!
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

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