Short Indiana Poems

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


Premium Member Bucket Lists These Days

   Survived a six-week vacation 
     in downtown Gary, Indiana
   
   Bucket lists these days
     have gone bananas
Form: Rhyme


Made of Stone

Saying goodbye,
never saying hello

All doors locked behind me
—their keys made of stone

(Indianapolis Indiana: July, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Truth

TRUTH

"God may have chosen the Israelites, but; Jesus his son, chose you all"
Indiana Shaw . . .
Form: Monoku

Premium Member The Grasshoppers Tale

THE GRASSHOPPERS TALE 

It was not my ambition to be born and bred
Just so that darn flamin’ Gecko could be fed

Indiana Shaw . . . : (
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Betrayal

BETRAYAL
"you failed me in your wisdom, thus, to deliberately watch me fall"
Indiana Shaw . . .
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Driving Me Insane

DRIVING ME INSANE
"I don't do insanity, it tends to drive me totally insane"
Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Good Grief Man

GOOD GRIEF MAN
"did I need to know; what you had for dinner, you butt blowing sinner"
Indiana Shaw . . . : /
Form: Monoku

Medical Marijuana

We need to think twice on medical marijuana
Even if it is opposed in India or Indiana
Let’s make it free, exclusively legalized
For those who need to have their nerves normalized
Form: Verse

Premium Member Strange Hobby

STRANGE HOBBY
"reading the obituaries just to see if you are still alive"
Indiana Shaw . . . "Do me" . . . : /
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Cockroach Lovers

COCKROACH LOVERS

Mind:

If: you ever come across a cockroach lover, avoid them like mad
They are either so very weird or very desperately lonely and sad

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Feeling Done

I remember when a penny felt to me like a pound
But now due to inflation it's the other way around
Indiana Shaw . . . : /
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Rub It In, Why Don'T You

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia are you having a laugh
The fear of long words that has those who suffer from it aghast

Indiana Shaw . . . *o*
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Life's Curveballs

LIFE’S CURVEBALLS

A past time of getting hit by a curveball, would send me off my trolley
Now I see it, catch it, as return it to sender, with one all mighty volley

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Heaven's Gate

Enter, mere mortal...

   God's portal...  

      Thou shalt not chortle!




_________________________
A tip of the hat to Indiana Shaw
for the phrase 'God's portal.'
Thank you, my friend! ~ gw

Premium Member Mother Knows - Repost For Indiana

Babes
flesh of her
with the audacity
to crown themselves 
lords
if not gods
masters of all
all
natural

fools 
at her feet

As every kingdom falls
Nature alone
knows immortality 




circa 2005

Premium Member Mapmaker, Mapmaker Me

Warsaw, Moscow
       cities in Indiana

     Pekin, Paris
       towns in Illinois

     All four northwest
       of the Iroquois...

     Don't ask me why I wrote this
       Ask me instead for a kiss

Crowing Achievement

Ground fenced becomes a fall garden
deterring squirrels' and rabbits' play.
Guard the soil that winter will harden
defeating Indiana clay.
Gilded tulips (unsightly bulbs' pardon)
deserve a diadem come May.
Form: Rhyme

So Said a Potiguara Indian

"They cut my leaves,
they cut my trunk
they dropped my headdress,
But they didn't pull out my roots...
So I went on living"...!


 PS:      Potiguara surviving group of Indians who inhabit Baia da Traiçao, Paraiba Brazil

Premium Member Bombs Away

BOMBS AWAY
"Holy crap, that's one fair turd offloaded Hermann, you must be relieved" Indiana Shaw . . . ; ) "Exeter unearths an unexploded 1.000 kg World War II Hermann bomb" . . .
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Prof Indiana Kibble Kat

Indiana Kibble Kat was the kind of a professor that….
Taught us about adventure with a tip toe tat.
Regaling us with stories pulled out of his hat
Amazing us with his pet vampire bat.
We never had a better teacher than Professor Kat.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member do not stare

the professional explorer will be along shortly
Do not stare, he is kind of a stereotype, said my pal, Portly.
I had no idea what that meant until the explorer showed his face
It was Indiana Pones Penguin, I welcomed him with some grace

Premium Member It's a Total Trash Can

IT'S A TOTAL TRASH CAN
The Marabou Stork
Anything found is devoured
Not a pretty sight
Indiana Shaw . . . : /
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Going Around In Circles

GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES
"aaron to Moses, I'm telling you, Bro, I have seen that bush before"
Indiana Shaw . . . "Too much bush weed, and not enough direction" . . . ; )
Form: Monoku

A Warriors Love

A warriors love 
 Once rode with great pride 
 With Honor and courage 

 Beneath beautiful sky's 
 A sweet love of mine 
 If 'I listen closely 

 With open ears 
 I can hear the earlier 
 Years 

 When my Indiana 
 Warrior was here .
Form: Narrative

Premium Member If You Had a Brain Cell

IF YOU HAD A BRAIN CELL . . .
If you had a brain cell I would put it in a jar
Then put it in a rocket and send it out of far
Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
Form: Couplet

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