Short Drum Poems

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


Shepherd's Wallet

Ignorance is a talking drum
Ignorance is a drum of backwardness
Like a clock with low battery
Moving anti - clock wise
Form: Quatrain


Their Car

loiters in his car
a dad-mama's New Year gift
true homeless loser
peewee bald redneck goofy  
merry andrew racist drum
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Randomized Attack

Should I get back
To the randomized drum attack
Or what would you let
Me survive and drum
Upon a double bass drum dream
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

The Drum Major

Faith
Ask my heart
To
Be 
The
drum major
That
Lead
The
Wind Parade
Through
The 
valley of death
without
any fear

Premium Member Ignorance

Ignorance:
A drum beaten by the fool

For

To overwhelm the voice of
Wisdom!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
  24 AUGUST 2014
Form: Epigram


These Words Are Gold

Words march
To a kettle
Drum beat,
We are told

They bring
Clarity to
Thy soul

These words,
I cherish
More than gold

Premium Member Th th th thats all folks

Even now my memory evokes
"Th th th thats all folks"
Porky pig stuttered this to sign off
Popped out of a drum, not his trough
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Dum Drum

DUM DRUM (for Sara Kendrick)

A rumpety tum ta tum
A rumpety tumpety tum
A dippity dee and a dippity doo
Go rum rum rumpety tum
Form: Limerick

Feel the Drum

Listen to the dark
The silence of the drum calls
Feel the soft caress
Taut skin brushed my fingertips
Worship gathered on my lips
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Thought of the Day

Heart holds steady love’s bliss flame,
being our soul’s claim to fame,
until we so be to become,
one with beat of the cosmic drum.
Form: Rhyme

Christmas Fire Place

it soon be the tree
candy youll  see
drum bang
a hey hang
on the tree heavenly
only will sett face to face
by the
CHRISTMAS FIRE PLACE

Premium Member Patriotic Blood

The parade is long and patriotic,
with glottic marching band~
with pipe, with drum, we demand
more young blood from our heartland.
Form: Englyn

Premium Member Haiku 78

summer storm
upon the horizon
lightning strikes

raindrops 
on the windshield
flash flood

thunder
above the clouds
drum solo
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Myself

Myself.
.
No one bangs my drum
Louder than myself
But I’m not anyone else
But me
And that
Is all I intend to be.
.
Peter Dome©2020.
© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member Bite Me

Crow caw synthesizer flight
enrapture blackest pit of night.
Rumble drum the saccharine fawn
cold craw stuck remnant
of omnivorous dawn.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Oom Pah Pah

The drum drummed
The  guitar strummed
The trombone oom pah pah'd
The audience clapped 
Because they were rapt
And some called out Hurrah
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Birth of a Poem

Birth of a poem Is attended by your muse With the first faint cry Write of life and of living Beating your drum until death
Form: Tanka

The Heart of Galileo Galilee

what love gather these young stars above in sacred harmony the swift beat of the snare drum or the warm heart of Galileo Galilee

About a Stutter

If someone stutters that you meet
Just think of it like it's a treat
You might extol 
It's a drum roll
Keeping you on the edge of your seat!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Destiny Oddquain

A 
substantial 
direction just calls; 
Sitting undeniable
not
bored;
You just listen to your heart
beating like a drum;
Destiny 
tempts.
Form: Other

Premium Member Drummed In

Stan loved to play his new drum
He could only play Tum Tum
He played Tum Tum all-day
Until his Dad took them away
Stan took off to tell his Mum
Form: Limerick

Raindrops Fallen

The rain beats down on the roof 
like a drummer beats his drum.. 
lightly it fall then hard it comes 
the music of rain drops 
at hit the roof.

Premium Member The Disabled Drum Major

Injured from jumping on bandwagons, he can no longer march to a different beat

            Oct. 9, 2016 For Silent One's Funny One-Liner Contest
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Rapture

I gently beat the drum
it seems to appease my inner child
~ small pleasures warm the heart



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member SOUNDING DRUM

Beat beat beats
The Tom Tom of the drums
Tom yom Tom Tom Tom Tom

Sounding beats the drum

9/17/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025

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