Short Downtown Poems

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


Premium Member Side Lined (Naga-Uta Form)

over qualified
redundant and out of work,
too old to fit in -
downtown,it is pouring down,
the umbrella's in the hall
Form: Lyric


Get Out

stop lay aound
go downtown
see what s around
this won't to mention
to release the attention
no doudt
you need too
GET OUT

Stormy Sighs

I met a girl quite bonny
Downtown in Pukalani
Her "Heavenly Hole"
Fits men on the dole
And Presidents like Donny . . . ..
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Bucket Lists These Days

   Survived a six-week vacation 
     in downtown Gary, Indiana
   
   Bucket lists these days
     have gone bananas
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Downtown

Oh’ poor Mr. Brown
His heaven, is the bar downtown
At home he wished it be
But much scolding, endures he.

Stacey Brown 2-5-14
Form: Clerihew


Buried Downtown

Outnumbered by loud engines and concrete blocks
Furious crowds and mobs ignore your existence
Till you clutch your way back home
Form: Haiku

Downtown Nashville

there's a place to go
the lights are much brighter there
if you're that crazy
you can blow up an RV
and let the whole world stare
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Ho-Ho - Ha-Ha



HO-HO yelled plump Santa as he walked downtown-
HA-HA yelled the kids when stuffed belly fell down!


November 17, 2021
Form: Couplet

Piccadilly

A lady who frequents downtown
Wears a frown like a circus clown
One day she fell
And bloody hell
She wore a big smile (upside down)!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Girl In the Red Barrette

The girl in the red barrette Silently walking downtown Lifting her hair over top To watch it slide down
Russell Sivey
Form: Dodoitsu

Teach

The wife took a tumble downtown
And an homeless man held her down
She said (off the cuff),
"No need to play rough
An adjective describes a noun!"
Form: Limerick

Pub Or Tea

A teenage girl defied her ma
And went downtown without her bra
But no boys were there
And girls did not care
What a dud thrill "Life in the Raw"!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member DOWNTOWN MARKET

peaches glow in morning light, vendors call beneath the trees. bright tomatoes, summer-ripe~ the street hums with gentle breeze.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Turista

While backpacking in downtown Mumbai
I digested a spicy meat pie
It wasn't too long
'Till I smelt a pong
And then felt something run down my thigh.
Form: Limerick

Sabbath Lie Mar-A-Lago Chapel

When the wife bent over downtown
It caused all of the nuns to frown
For - to their dismay -
Right there on display
Was alms for the poor upside-down!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member As Gangs Roam Free

The sound of guns in ghetto streets
   Kill little kids and star athletes
As gangs roam free in August's heat
   ~ Downtown Chicago's sights are sweet
Form: Quatrain

Six Feet Under

Locked up in a hotel 
stronghold, dog leash
dog pound 
every nook and cranny downtown 
don't high tale it to the gutter 
six feet under in the ground
Form: Verse

Downtown

• He should've been back by now • "Where did he go?" you ask • "Downtown in the straw market," I replied • "He tends to carry a flask"
© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Encounter

I once met a girl in a downtown pub
who claimed we had met at a vegetarian club.
But I must insist, indeed implore,
that I had never seen herbivore.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In the Groove

Am I in the groove or on the right track?
My record player goes clickety-clack,
The lyrics I hear are all in pig-Latin,
Backed by the sounds of downtown Manhattan.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rhyming Addiction

There’s a terrible disease going aroun’,
And I’m afraid this is a fact, not fiction;
In the country, the suburbs, even downtown -
It’s the horrifying rhyming addiction.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hurricane Hips

A substantial wahine named Beulah,
To please her husband was learning the hula,
But the wind she created
As her grass skirt gyrated
Devastated most of downtown Honolulu.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Downtown Dance Hall

I see us someday slow dancing in a renowned dance hall
In a bustling downtown under a full moon that will crawl,
Ascending just like a love in which I will never again bawl.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member The Canine Palace

The Canine Palace in downtown Fort Meyers
is where every chic, rich dog retires
The most posh place around
for worn pug or old hound
Ten grand a week is all it requires

6/8/22
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Naked Downtown

Think we should all have a wee lie down Coz in a sea of confusion, we could all drown Life gets tedious At times devious To survive, just run around naked downtown
Form: Limerick

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