Short Cardboard Poems

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


Cardboard Love

Her eyes blinding mine,
My mind couldn't see she was
A cardboard hot ride;
All the perky promises
Sagged on the first rainy night
Form: Tanka


Homeless Shelter

"Shelter Shelter homeless elder
Covered with cardboard from the weather"

Contest: Sanctuary 
Sponsored by: Silent One
Date Created: 08/17/2020
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member My Final Wishes

Don't shovel a clod upon my head
when I'm dead
or put me inside a cardboard cup
when you burn me up.
Get rid of me at last
with a cannon blast.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Old Tomcat

There was an old tomcat named Sox 
Who enjoyed his brown cardboard box
He'd jump right inside
play there and hide
Old Sox in a box 
Really rocks
Form: Limerick

My First Couplet

Take flight, up high
Sky land, with a cardboard box?

So high, up clouds
loudly up, barrel light?

Do tricks, take a pick
ice cream licks, boomy boom?
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Cardboard Messages

cardboard messages on street corners and parking lots the face of despair behind each sign a story quickly glance and look away
Form: Tanka

Cardboard Ceiling

After you left, I 
Found my pride crouching inside
A homeless man’s box

I crawled inside and 
Collapsed, releasing the last
Of love’s butterflies


8/5/11

Susan Burch
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Truly Named Acme

Truly named Acme

We fed cardboard sheets
into a machine in steady flow

corrugated boxes the result
boxes to be filled with wares
endless capitalism perpetuated

Premium Member Side Cut

Walking side view
cardboard cut out
if you've seen it
probably was kinda halloweenish
it's a freak of nature
a view hard to conjure
up to you walking
cut out side view

Not Real

I, as paper man
in paper town, 
grey, saw 
a cardboard cut-out
of a mirror, 
the reflection
was a busy world 
it didn't look real, 
those colours
and restaurants

Homeless

homeless, my dreams
wander the street
sleeping in a cardboard box
chilled from the cold
and rumbling hunger
longing for more
hoping for shelter
love that will
take them in
© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Cardboard Boats

The battle rages, tree branch swords
cardboard boats on Viking Fjords
victory within our grasp
mother calling “time for your nap”


7/24/2021

Flair and Fun Quatrain Contest
Form: Quatrain

Boulevard, Usa

Fluorescent signs shout
     "Liquor" and "***,"
cardboard boxes
     hold the land hostage,
pushers and prostitutes
     pirouette
with survival
     their only choreographer.

Premium Member Saving a Bug

bug inched around my glass rim
i knew it could fly off
it didn't
so I captured it
between a glass and a piece of cardboard
walked it outside and let it go.
I am a hero.
One more life saved

Searching For the Smuggler's Cave

The cheap thrill
tobogganing down the slope
of the Aberfeldie Park hill
on a piece of cardboard
then adventuring to the smuggler's cave
near the Maribyrnong River
searching for buried treasure.
fun

Premium Member Treasured In Any Chest

Heavy are shoulders 
            Bearing caskets of the dead
               Cardboard or lined Lead

COMPLETELY YOUR CHOICE (44)
any form any theme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand 18/01/21
Form: Haiku

Finger Puppets

children
         create jolly
       finger puppets
      from cardboard,

   chocolate smeared
        little hands
    make them sticky.

Jack Horne, 18th September for Nette’s Septolet the Puppet contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Man On Stone Island

Man on Stone Island
Cars whiz by as ragged, tufted man on stone island carries his sign, "hungry" "homeless" he has written on the cardboard; cars whiz by.

Poor Boy Winter

Cracks in the floor,
filled with old cardboard.

Plastic on the windows,
blankets on the doors.

Newspaper on the plumbing,
wood stacked by the stove.

Preparing for the winter,
when I was just a boy.
Form: Verse

Cold Cracks

Preparing for the winter,
when I was just a boy.

Newspaper on the plumbing,
wood stacked by the stove.

Plastic on the windows,
blankets on the doors.

Filled up with cardboard,
Cold cracks in the floor.

Premium Member Admiral Rondelet

I ventured to the shore of a foreign land,
whose beach was filled with a ton of sand.
Peering through thick pea soup fog,
I saw a ribbon on a cardboard dog.
It was just another day,
for Admiral Bowser Rondelet.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Paper Moon

The paper moon starts to glow
on a painted cardboard scene
when love truly starts to flow.
Now we know that you trust me,
I let the string puppets go
for an opening night's spree
beyond the play's make-believe.
Form: Verse

Jigsaw

Just a big box of cardboard shapes
Individual pieces defined
Goodness, that feels like you and me
Slowly, yet surely, is all it takes
And in good time, they'll fit, side by side
Why then, I've got to ask, why don't we?
Form: Acrostic

Cardboard Castle

call it
whatever

you surely
    will,

but to
   me

this is
     it,

my place
& only

worldly
          possession
                            now...

be it
paper thin

& weather
   beaten

7-1-07
Form:

Premium Member You Can'T Make This Stuff Up

I watched a ballplayer
   wave 'Hi' to the 
cardboard cut-out fans
   propped up in the stands

At first I thought
   It's time to find
a new optometrist

Then I remembered
   This year
Everyone has
   20/20 vision

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