Short Flapping Poems

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


Premium Member Bird Versus Mouse

bird
delicate petite
flying flitting flapping
cardinal wren rodent shrew
scattering scurrying shrieking
gray round 
mouse
Form: Diamante


Premium Member Hawk

the hawk, flapping wings
           flew in front of the windshield
                   a sight magnified

Heidi Sands

6/3/18
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Imagination's Ghosts

laundry lines
wooden clothespins
white sheets 
flapping...
ghosts of my
imagination...
like Halloween 
this year
disappeared
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Obvious Flapping

obvious flapping
struggling for a few seconds
flowing with wind now

following a cloud
astonished forest watches
eagle disappear
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Wise Soul

Wise a soul becomes when starts flapping the wings God provided it with!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
    30 October 2018
Form: Monoku


Butterfly

Pretty butterfly
Fluttering its tiny wings
   Floating in the air

 Flapping and swaying
Pretty butterfly dances
 In the gentle breeze
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Vacillation

VACILLATION


Vacillation:  
Flapping wings of
Hope 
That never leave the
Ground of fear! 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
       25 APRIL 2013
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Haiku 02

jellyfish floating
in turbulent sea currents
beware tentacles

sting ray flapping by
vast oceans you do cross
in your endless quest
Form: Haiku

Storm Is Abrewing

Storm is abrewing

Building up fiery hot air

Dragon in disguise

Flapping its green veiny wings

Making geese fly home backwards
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Walk Home

We paused in the shade
Of the cool, green, cedar tree
Ties flapping in wind
Satchels hung like saddlebags
We raced home like wild horses
Form: Tanka

Blindness

I wondered
I wanted
I could not find

I fell victim to a blindness
rare, falling out of the sky
like a sparrow

flapping on the lawn.
© Alan Inman  Create an image from this poem.
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Premium Member Caged Bird

Free denizen of the sky, The songbird is now in cage, Flapping its tired wings in vain. Yet the caged bird sings!
Form: Dodoitsu

There Once Was a Woman From Calfeder

There once was a woman from Calfeder
Who had lips as hard as leather
When kissing the boys
She expresses her joys 
By flapping them widly together
Form:

Feathers

Feathered wings flapping
as eagles fly in the sky
soaring with freedom 



 For. Skat A's "Feathers" Contest
By Nudershada Cabanes
July 14, 2015
Form: Haiku

Premium Member It's all too much

More endless lies and platitudes.
There he goes again flapping his mouth.
I just bite my lip.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Butterfly

An Albino butterfly in the sky
Its beauty is plain, Gliding across the breeze
Wings flapping, Reaching higher with ease
Captured beauty, In its symmetry
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Go into solution mode

I best bite my lip.
Wagging his tongue and flapping his mouth.
Nothing constructive comes of it.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Dress In the Wind

dress in the wind flapping across wildly… cherry blossoms
Entered into Black Eyed Susan's "1 Cherry Blossom Haiku" contest 4/10/2013
Form: Haiku

Moves Like a Helicopter

flapping grasshopper
                                               moves like a helicopter
                                                quickly up and down
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Rain and Ducks

Rain drops fall softy
each splashing drop forms circles
which join into puddles

Ducks splash with great glee
flapping wings causing droplets
that reflect rainbows
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Joining the Band

And here we have Baby J on the drums,
Goat had big teeth and was flapping his gums.
Can I join too?
I asked the Big Gazoo.
I took out my comb and started to hum.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Same Song

always the same song incessantly his gums flapped.. cotton in the ears hungary buzzards on a still morning look the same flapping their wings
Form: Senryu

Unfair

yes i agree, Frank...

what is my crime, i'm doing time, locked away from the light, its so unfair, the birds out there, are in flapping floating flight, Don
Form: Ballad

Flapping Dance On the Tree Top

boughs sway in high breeze
                                             flapping dance on the tree top
                                                     leaves' rustle music
Form: Haiku

Premium Member His New Sweetness

His New Sweetness

You're so honey
Sweet Bee
Fly with me
To your flower

Wings be flapping
Hyperactivity
In budding unison
My dear, lover

connie pachecho

3/9/17

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