Short Cubits Poems
Short Cubits Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cubits by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cubits by length and keyword.
Cubits a Way
What once was sweet
Has just got sweeter
The polymath
is now in Theatre...
And the claim is a foot!
I flipped a gnocchi
When I saw this cat
In the Quarto...
and with a Juliet!
So I squared the matter
with a call for d'meter....
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Categories:
cubits, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Haman's Comeuppance
Standing fifty cubits high-
the gallows meant for Mordecai,
but Haman's scheming went awry;
and on the gibbet carved from pride
not Mordecai, but Haman died.
08.10.19
( reference - Old Testament - book of Esther )
FF1 series 22 - vignette : Brian Strand's blog...
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Categories:
cubits, irony,
Form:
Verse
Giant Goliath Smitten
Goliath*, mighty giant
Against young David he was defiant
With God’s strength triumphantly prevailing
Goliath, smitten by David; forever in defeat, ailing.
*1Samuel 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
June 7, 2019...
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Categories:
cubits, character, christian, courage, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Clerihew
The Year of the Last Useful Invention
The clock of my mind stopped in 1897.
it is always late autumn
and we dress mostly in grey
steam locomotive whistles
daily puncture our thought balloons
my teacher once said:
Boy, consider the rectangle,
source of all progress.
forty days and forty nights
forty shekels and forty cubits
and thirty pieces of silver
the number of mosquitoes
skating on the rain barrel
a marching panorama
of numbered cards
sometimes, a Joker!
a fire or a drunken brawl...
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Categories:
cubits, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse