Short Grotesque Poems

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


Premium Member Strangeness

Strangeness

the grotesque

the starkness

the edginess~

miraculous stories

all courtesy of

appearing separation~~


grotesque

I do not want your love
unless you know precisely how repulsive I am,
and, knowing it, 
find yourself compelled to love me all the more.

Premium Member The Ss Are Squinding

Slippery squat salamander squinding,
Sucking, slurping under my sailboat. 
Deviously deciding a dindling,
Grotesque gargoyle giants squind your throat!

Premium Member Clerihew Hogarth

William.Hogarth did his satire at his desk
he liked to portray the grotesque
Similar to Dickens,but in ink& paint
he lampooned people who were *****&quaint
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member I Avoid Exaggerators

Another farfetched story from Helen Louise
Bizarre, fantastique, grotesque if you please
Eccentric and strange, decidedly *****
I ran out screaming, for embellishers I fear
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Burlesque

My naive picture of Burlesque
Some lovely ladies junoesque
Slapstick humor risky
Dancers rather frisky.
Mom would consider it grotesque.

For Miranda's contest

won an hm
Form: Limerick

Witch

Wacko mind born confused
With grotesque ugly face 
Web of deceit her game
Worshipping evil eyes
Wicked soul casting spells
Wordless wrathful weaver 
Wounding beautiful hearts
Form: Pleiades

Reflection

Touch me reflection
let me feel the nothing
in your grotesque
moulded water undulates
shadows swims
the amber fades
something in the drifted lights
and beauty finds the shape

Circus

CIRCUS 


Exiled from native homes
Slave creatures imprisoned, 
Forced to do tricks,
Tightrope lions, clapping seals.
Elixir of grotesque clown disguises  
Drab animal lives.

While Trump Did Wear Diaper

While Trump Did Ware Diaper

We saw Trump while he wore a diaper,
Looking grotesque being a big griper;
When near,
Pain in rear;
Wherever he has been is always hyper.

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

Premium Member Gone

calling the dark, dismal, fear involved, painfully grotesque, cemetery, she’s still gone

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Constance’s, “Write it on one line, Please” contest
September 7th, 2011
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Ghouls

Galactic blood red sky
Gathers for Halloween
Goulish grotesque, zombies
Gross witches and black cats
Goblins, plus gruesome ghosts
Ghastly, grim, while groaning
Guarantees goosebumps.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Ghouls

Gates of hell were opened
Guttural groans were heard
Grotesque ghouls overhead
Gowned in gossamer gauze
Gnarled fingers reached for me
Guilefully, they took flight
Gory night of bloodshed
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pleiades

Beauty

Behind the veil of beauty, 
reside darkness
waiting like lover
peering through the windows,
counting the ticking of clock 
cometh the hour,
transported from illusion 
to grotesque,
all beauty decay.

A Glandular Strangler We Should Deter

A Glandular Strangler We Should Deter

Greeted general area that is glandular,
When he started becoming a strangler;
Grotesque glands;
Spastic hands,
Who we should be sure to try to deter.

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

Premium Member Schism

The teacher's feet flew up on the desk,
    Striking the class as rather grotesque:
       It caused quite a schism,
       As she'd just escaped prison!
    Was this a school-room or house of burlesque?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Summer Day, 1983

Grotesque tall neurons sprout into the sky screaming anarchic omniscience Green gold pulses in incandescent eruptions Hot humorless jagged rocks cut through omniscient anarchy

Inspiration

Profound Dazzlement!
Icicles formation. And
dripping as sun shines.
Brushing off the grotesque gloom
Inspiration, I oft zoom.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member the gs have it

gigantic girlish ghouls gathered at Gate’s gazebo
glabrous ghouls glistening grotesque globs of gloom
gothic goldbricking good-for-nothing gossips on the go
green-eyed grandstanding grifters, guests of green groom.

Premium Member Chin

What's something 
really gross 
you've seen lately? 

For me, 
it was a toothless old lady 
on a bus stop bench, 
gumming Cheetos she first 
softened up 
in a paper cup of water, 
her mouth and chin 
bright orange.

Rapture Caused By Caricature

Caricature is a picture, description, or imitation 
of a person in which certain striking characteristics 
are exaggerated that will create a comic or grotesque 
effect.

Capture rapture caused by a caricature.

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

Pray For Me

I pray for you;
for I am nasty.
I pray for you;
for I am mean.
I pray for you;
for i am grotesque.
I pray for you; 
for I am demented.
i pray for you;
for I am horrific.
I pray for you; 
in hopes that you pray for me.

Seclusion of My Heart

My heart a grotesque thing with teeth,
And its eyes pale to the shadow of the moon.
While the still nights air reeks of its stench,
Lust, love and all emotions, are but strings,
Weaving, it out of my bosom and into seclusion.

Parting the River

Crisscrossed 
your cat's eye
and I pray
you anesthetize me
Now.

Before I speak
Up and stumble
onto this
ridiculousness.

Far fetched and
grotesque is this
self-afflicted
ignominy.

Dismissal, readiness
without a backpack.

Premium Member Gargoyle

Gothic creatures of old
  gaze down from their ledges 
    glaring at unseen threats.
       Grotesque legends of stone
    garner my attention 
  garish symbols ward off
ghoulish evil demons.




Written on 11/30/2016
Pleiades
Form: Pleiades

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