Short Cartoonish Poems
Short Cartoonish Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cartoonish by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cartoonish by length and keyword.
If Archie Bunker Were Still Alive
I don’t mean to bust Archie’s hump.
He meant well, the simple old chump,
But damn, how buffoonish
His views, so cartoonish,
In short, he’d have staunchly liked Trump!
(Written February 2, 2019, for Joseph May's Limerick 4 contest.)...
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Categories:
cartoonish, funny, humorous, political,
Form:
Limerick
Bullets
Bullets
Bang! The cartoonish noise echoes
Underneath those fluorescent
Lights. Everyone is silent, even the
Librarian, who is usually shhh-ing everyone
Even though the bullet did not touch me, it
Took me 6 feet under, where I could not
Suffer, could not remember watching you take your own life. ...
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Categories:
cartoonish, deep, depression, heartbroken, i miss you, suicide,
Form:
Acrostic
XYZA
My head is a bowl of whirling thoughts
My mind,a rugged sea of jagged waves and shattered dreams
A caricature of a fulfilled life
Cartoonish belief in hope
The earth is my oyster and my grave
The paradox of a tortured soul
Spat on as I stagger,drunk of the blood of my repeated failures
Cursed to wander the earth in blood and ashes
Torn out of my chest
My bloody,thumping heart...
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Categories:
cartoonish, depression, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Polly Purebred Saved By Underdog
Polly Purebred was a bit too stuck up for my taste.
But Underdog was always there, with a heave and a haste.
I remember being shocked when I saw him in color in 1964.
Picturing him in blues, not reds, now seeing him down to his core.
He flew across the screen at Polly’s first whistle.
His cape was smooth and clean, without thorns or a thistle.
Polly Purebred never stop yelping, not a favorite with me.
But Underdog always saved her, with a bit of cartoonish glee....
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Categories:
cartoonish, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme