Short Fossil Poems

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


Premium Member Where Dinosaurs Roamed

landslides tumbling stones
                 rock grinding along fault zones
                    ~  scree of fossil bones
Form: Haiku


Traffic

we travel for hours and hours
flogging our fossil-fueled powers
when we get there
we are nowhere
as our taste for the present sours
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Haiku By Escher

#1
broken icicle
equatorial fossil
turned now into stone

Brian Johnston
June 20, 2016

Poet's Notes:
Expect more to come!  Ha!
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Dirty Talk

come on crude
    
                         we're all future fossil fuel

                                     pump me






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Premium Member Words Matter

A relic or the missing link?
You're like “Plato” they say—Do they think
I'm that colossal 
Or a sentient fossil—
A “Play Dough” primordial stink?
Form: Limerick


Premium Member A Warm Future

Mined and burned fuels that are fossil
Create debacles colossal
Large profits some got
But when nature gets hot
It will make past disasters seem docile
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Paradigm Shift

Fossil powered gas coal and crude
Got miners and some roughnecks screwed
With solar and wind
Their fate could be pinned
On working with fuel that's renewed
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Climate Crisis - Hiku

carbon dioxide
methane
political hot air

Greta alert
David alert
parochial apathy

fossil fuel
Indian blockade
dinosaurs cop out

16 November 2021
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Form: Haiku

Premium Member Gogyohka Fan Brushed

Cerulean above Fan brushed with fossil, ash, silver and cloud Zephyr's northwesterly cold Hemlock seeds and broom sage tassels fly November surprises
Form: Other

Premium Member Living Fossil

A
pot plant,
this cycad-
now four metres 
wide
takes
living 
in its stride-
Kew's long-lasting
pride

Encephalartos altensteinii
brought to Kew in 1775 from SA,grows one inch a year.
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Cocksure That Spring Had Sprung

Cocksure were we that Spring had sprung
Unprepared once again to be stung

   by Old Man Winter
   fresh back from vacation ~
   Fossil Fools we be, reigniting 
   CO2 home heating stations
Form: Rhyme

From the Deep Wayra

Dirty fossil fuel
Extracted from deep earth crust
By men who risked life and limb
Today cursed by many
Gave us this civilization

16 August 2019
Second Edition of Wayra
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud

Still Counting

Digging the fossil 
foot. Satisfied  less
I want my old coin.

The early call was
for preacher, who will not
get up by funeral.

Books are ugly.
Will write magnolia.
The yellow waxy monk.

Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Apostle Who Was a Fossil

Apostle Who Was A Fossil

In a sundry ways we had known an apostle,
Who turned out to be a terrible old fossil;
Often off wall;
Name was Paul,
When you told him he would become hostel.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Will I Be a Fossil

A hundred years from now, will I be a fossil Will geologists discover this warm-blooded morsel Prey for some creature But larger and squishier Like a MacDonald's sweet breakfast waffle
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Too Short

I'm a relic, a fossil, a dinosaur,
I have more years behind me than ahead of me for sure,
and that's why I don't tolerate any bull crap anymore.
You've heard it all your life, "Life's Just Too Damned Short!"
Form: Rhyme

Dodoitsu

with surprise and joy
fossil dodoitsu survive
in poetrysoup






This senryu is to give my respect and gratitude to those who make dodoitsu which 
is at an edge of extinction where it's originally from.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Pyramids

The Great Pyramids at Giza are an absolute marvel We haven't discovered how they managed this colossal Aliens from afar With mysterious avatars The mystery continues, this amazing geological fossil
Form: Limerick

Fossil

I found a fossil hiding 
near something overgrown,
a historical handprint etched 
in a slab of ancient stone.

I trace the imprint idly
and marvel at its design-
the grooves coil and curve around,
and then become entwined.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Regrets, I've Had Too

      I’m of the liberal limousine set
      Voting for Cortez for POTUS, you bet ~

        Wait!  She’ll outlaw fossil fuels
        And I can't drive or fly mules ~

      Is it too late to rescind my vote yet?
Form: Limerick

Dragonfly

Fossil dragonflies with wingspans about two feet,
Imagine seeing that dragon fly on the street !
Three hundred million years old;
Remarkable story to be told!!
Ancient, beautiful, I mystify;
The magnificent...
Dragonfly.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Fossil

Dictionaries describe “fossil” as a cranky old person Not flattering but it's bang on, not a very nice version It doesn't apply to me I'm as sweet as can be Fillies flock around till I'm forced to charge a fee
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Get Real About Fuel

Aloft in once pure blue,
form strings of yellow hue -
pollutant see-o-two.

Man's abuse going on.
Dumping fossil carbon.
More filthy pollution.

Six miles up it is seen.
The sky a crisscross scene 
from tax free kerosene.
Form: Rhyme

Aching Love

Burning love
This fossil fuel goes unrecognized
When calculating brain
Mixed with car trouble
Causes croaking spokes to choke

All folks aside
This burning love is molting
Beyond measure
In caverns unpedaled
To preserve
The feelings in silhoutte

The Fern

The silk fern herringbones the sunlight.
Its prehistoric tendrils fan the morn:
A living fossil to take urgent flight.

It whispers in dark inaudible moan,
Spawning in our rich volcanic earth,
Secrets where our seed was first sown

In fragile perpetuity.
Form: Verse

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