Short Century Poems
Short Century Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Century by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Century by length and keyword.
Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl:
Their wisdom was a misconception
They died and that’s natural selection
Form:
Charles Dickens
was said to be the pickings
of literature in the nineteenth century,
but I couldn't make it pass page three!
18th century painter William Marlow
a typographical artist you may know
So expert at design
as architect was he full time
58% of hospital infections
preventable by washing hands
What does this tell us
about 21st-century man
See a pin, pick it up,
And all day long you'll have good luck.
See a pin, pick it up,
And all day long you'll have a pin
Form:
I've never been to Heaven
nor have I been to Hell
But living through the 20th century
I think I know it well
Stock-still statues
Bucolic totem-poles
Munching fly-swatters
Lazily grazing ...
Invisible to driverless cars
canythingrowhereveroseshowhatillsoilsweetoneseasonedelights
(whathecknotsuchhalfbackedialoguebriouscriptogether)
stan sand
This Chilean gem
Twentieth century joy
So influential...
His styles were vast
Much more than just a poet, was
Pablo Neruda...
Mary, Mary quite contrary
This is what I want to know
With an Adams apple
And the razors dapple
Are you really a girl, yes or no?
Form:
ruffled marigolds showing off their petticoats
hollyhock rivals promenade into the center of the garden
the dance off of the century
A 12th century poet was Saigyo
so famous he poetized the willow
He also poseyed about Spring
his words of influence made others sing
Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And killed the man from the income tax
When she saw what she had done,
She went off to kill another one
Form:
Sincere appreciations glad the heart, constructive criticisms better the mind.
From me to you: Compliments of the season!!!
It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
We should have changed but instead,
We didn’t and we’ll all be dead by morning
Form:
Jesus or Father Christ established or started
The Catholic or Roman Catholic Church
With our first pope St. Peter on Second Century
Check out the Eiffel tower
And see the many castles
That date back to mid century
Check out the night life
& say we we to the ladies
Higgledy Piggledy,
My fat hen,
She lays eggs
Full of Collagen
Good for women,
And good for men,
Higgledy Piggledy,
My fat hen!
Form:
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Now, historians say the Babylonians invented soap in 2800 B.C.E
Water, alkali and cassia oil ~ formula of hope in the 21st century
2025’s manuscript
Tips off the rip-offs as we’re gypped!
When oligarchs die
They'll not greed deny
But flip us the bird from their crypt
The fair maid who, the first of May
Goes to the fields at break of day,
And picks strawberries ripe and juicy
Isn’t a native of this country
grandfather
died in the forgotten plague
of the last century*
I sit musing under the cherry
startled by a white possum
*tuberculosis
Caravaggio born in 14th century Milan
an artist & quite a fighting man
remembered now for art& still life
was clearly then ,in need of a wife
War, just war in every century
War, just war everywhere
Can’t stop the demon
Can’t stop in us
Can’t stop
Never
Gone
Off
Ghost
On
Tom Sawyer did three somersaults, a back flip, stood on his head
Becky Thatcher scrolled up and down her device ~ said, 'Go soak your head'