Short Hunchbacked Poems
Short Hunchbacked Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Hunchbacked by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Hunchbacked by length and keyword.
God and the Hunchback
The hunchbacked man once asked God:
Why didn't you turn your face to me Lord?
But God answered the man:
When I looked down at your clan,
I saw your back turn to me like a gourd....
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Categories:
hunchbacked, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
The Old Year
It creeps over beer stained carpets.
Last night I saw its hunchbacked shadow
rooting in the fridge for spreading cheese.
This morning it peers out of my front window,
looking to see if anything has changed -
nothing has.
I know it will be up all night
shaking an unlit Christmas tree,
it will moan. It imagines
rearranging my leftover life
for another year....
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Categories:
hunchbacked, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Predation
It creeps over beer stained carpets.
Last night I saw its hunchbacked shadow
rooting in the fridge for spreading cheese.
This morning it peers out of my front window,
looking to see if anything has changed -
nothing has.
I know it will be up all night
shaking an unlit Christmas tree,
it will moan. It imagines
rearranging my leftover life
for another year....
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Categories:
hunchbacked, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Troll
Hunchbacked in a room, typing electric spells of doom,
breathing out fire, an alchemy of pain, suffering and desire.
Filtered beauty but oh, beneath, lies green skin and poisonous teeth,
with claws replaced by keyboard, where online posts replicate sword.
Eyes glassy, red with ire and fatigue; hate is sport, pole position in the league:
a troll swallowing prey in gigabytes whole; their innocence lost, our youth stole....
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Categories:
hunchbacked, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme