Short Guests Poems

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


The Jackfruit and the Flies

One day in summer
We were eating a jackfruit
Suddenly some flies
Smelling odor from somewhere
Came as the unwanted guests.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Winter Haiku

nest of pristine snow —
frozen smile welcomes the guests
who leave their footprints

12/21/2018
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Form: Haiku

Landlord Or Guest

We are the landlords 
in our own hearts, 
but guests in other hearts,
no matter how long 
our stay in their territories lasts
Form: Rhyme

The Guests

Wingless creatures,
Walking freely,
Sharing my abode,
Out of the blues, 
These tiny miniatures,
Move randomly,
In appalling mode.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Age Has Its Privileges

A special birthday party Imagine being ninety Guests sang the birthday song She slept through it all
1/25/16
Form: Dodoitsu


Premium Member Divinity's Guests

Butterflies and bees

Flowers' nectar sip with glee

Divinity's guests!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
         18 July 2017
Form: Haiku

Premium Member the charm of the unwelcome

The squirrels' desire emphatic
To airbnb in the attic
Means a landlord may leave
Hors d'ouevres in the eave
That make their guests aromatic
Form: Limerick

Feelings

Feelings…
like wisps of cobwebs clinging,
cannot be shaken away.

They lie there,
unwelcome and unbidden,
Like unwanted guests come to stay.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member avoiding a drain nightmare

About toilet paper guests swipe
The staff at hotels have a gripe
They say steal it not
But buy one-ply Scott
Which won’t wipe out home’s sewage pipe
Form: Limerick

Little Guests

How groovy my little guests were,
They vanished like vapor, I swear;
It took time to catch on,
I saw them in the lawn
Crunching on Mildred's cadaver.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Summer afternoons

A refreshing pitcher of lemonade.
Invited several old friends to drop in.
No bitter lemons among us.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Their Wedding Came Acropolis

A maiden named Stephanopoulos 
Married Milos Papadopoulos 
    At the canopy
    All the guests could see
The bride dancing down the aisle ~ topless!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Just Testing

  
     Life is a series of tests
        armies of unwelcome guests

     wave after wave of insect pests ~
        From them a crown you must wrest
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Seasonal Guests

plucked from frozen hills

evergreen scents fill our homes...

     lights flicker with joy




*Entry for Andrea's "Haiku Me a Christmas Tree" contest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Best Times

Lawn chairs arranged in circle.
Wood piled to build the perfect campfire.
Friends gather for lasting memories.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Gastronomy

Culinary passion on a plate.
Fine dining for guests and loved ones.
Extravagance to impress taste buds.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Cold Pizza

Good to have morning-after greet ya
With gourmet coffee and cold pizza.
If leftover guests are crashed on floor,
Give 'em a slice, and show 'em the door.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Halloween Porch Formula

One part fall flowers To two parts Jack-O-Lanterns That’s the formula For warm greeting on my porch Sending in Halloween guests
Russell Sivey
Form: Tanka

The Biltmore House

The Biltmore House gardens are lush
And the rooms so ornate you must gush
     But with 43 loos
     That the guests got to use
I would wager the owners were flush!
Form: Limerick

Checked In, and In

Marie McCaid was a hotel maid.
She tidied rooms where guests had laid.
On opening Room thirty-four
the odor sent her to the floor.
One guest had clearly overstayed.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Come and Stay We Urged Them

Come and stay we urged them.
We’ll have a blast!
We did not have blast.
They came two days too early.
We were prepared in no way.
Worst visit ever.
Last one also.

Premium Member Uninvited Guests

my neighbours lose all fear for me;

for afternoon tea and poetry

Note:a pair of busy parent robins perched upon my book & pen inspiring this verse this 
afternoon

Premium Member Unwanted Guests By Some

re-post inspired by unwanted contest

Adhered to the eaves where house martins hatch
Spiders cluster to a weathered straw hatch.

AdelaideCrapsey American doublet form
Form: Couplet

Haiku: Sound By Crows

Crows announced
Arrival of guest
In harsh sound

Authour's Note:
In India, it is believed that if the crows make noise at your door then some of your 
guests may arrive.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Painting

PAINTING 

         Dining table set :
         Peerless painting of Van Gogh
         defines dignity 
         adorning my dining hall,
         also to welcome guests.
Form: Tanka

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