Short Italian Poems

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


The Pertinacious Donkey

Its an old saying,    
stubborn as a mule  
The old Italian 
yanked,  
and the donkey said,   
"now that ain't cool"


Italian Prudery

Hisham Melhem
insists it must be either us or them
that prudish box
such a peculiar contrast to those Berlusconi jocks.
age
Form: Clerihew

Senryu Taste Test

italian mother in law
                                   i tell her how good
                                   my sauce is
Form: Senryu

Untitledtrash

I've got a lot of hoes
I've got a lot of bros
I've got a lot of dough
And I've got a lot of blow
But I've got a lot of woes
Yo

Premium Member Mitsa

It's Saturday afternoon
Fun, Football, and Pizza.
Holy Smokes they won it.
So, Dinner is salzitsa!


Italian Sausage. Yeah


Her Silence

flowers in her hair
music on the wind
feelings on my shoulders
liquor on my breath
the words I speak
you could hear a pin drop

Premium Member Grilling Out

hot dogs plumply burnt
juicy hamburgers with cheese
Italian chicken

a side of coleslaw
potato salad and more
gooey iced brownie
Form: Haiku

Premium Member I Cannot Paint Your Eyes

"When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes*" ~ til then you wear a disguise


* Amedeo Modigliani ~ Italian painter and sculptor
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member It's a wonderful wife

My wife can three languages speak
Her Italian has a mystique
With English hooray
She has a cachet!
Though her Crochet texts mimic Greek
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Betty

A lovely young lady named Betty
Was covered in coloured confetti
She had just wed
An Italian named Fred
And now she is Mrs Betty Borletti
Form: Limerick

Best Gravy

For delectable gravy,
One creamed chicken can.
Add italian seasonings,
Lemon juice, Parsley,
and Hot Spice to taste.
Deliciously
Simple!
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member My Italian Quatrain

Rome Greece and China love a quatrain.
Four stanzas is how it has to be.
Stingy poets only give us three.
This one is Italian from my brain.

Premium Member Cute Christmas Couplet

An Italian Santa by the name of Giuseppe Vannini --
   Ho, ho, ho -- stuffed every stocking with a skimpy bikini


        December 18, 2018
Form: Couplet

How Now

The Chinese have a dog called, "Chow"
It does not taste much like a cow
The Italian, "Ciao"
Is never highbrow
Yet either one help bed a Frau!
Form: Limerick

Return To the Burgh

My rivers flow through me,
In my black and golden blood,
Iron city in my system,
Singing songs in Italian inside me,
Feeling home,
Feeling home.

ITALIAN PROVERB INCREASED



       between speaking and doing
        there is a long road to walk
         and a great desert to march
          an immense sea to cross

Premium Member Backlight

Approaching to me
Divine in the backlighting
She is more splendid



Controluce (italian version)

Lei si avvicina
Divina in controluce
È più splendente
Form: Haiku

Tiramisu

Decadent ladyfinger Infused with coffee Layered, rich, cheese filled delight I long for your taste My Italian love And your rum Yum!
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member Hungry for Spaghetti

I am hungry for spaghetti today
no Italian in me, but this does not sway
my McCormick Irish and English Stone say
spaghetti it is, being eclectic is okay
Form: Monorhyme

Chittarra Guitario

Sausage stuffed eggplants
with italian sausage
 onions garlic and feta
mozzerila, parmnensean, and ricottia
sunflowers
procuttio
and rasains and brandy
Form: Bio

Chandelier

A chandelier hung frozen in time
Locked in a hazy Italian photograph
Memories spark and sizzle
But die out all too soon
In a grueling cycle of remembrance

Pimp-Luscious

I got a bad case of the avian flu
It's a bad case and the prescription is you
There's a bird out there that's gotten me
That writes mad rhymes to a Rotten T

Premium Member Touch of italian gusto

Delicious meatballs over fresh spaghetti.
A glass of chianti on the side.
Sprinkle a hint of parmesan.


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Italian, I Tell Ya

Home-grown tomatoes on low Basil and garlic Angel hair pasta wall test Fresh parmesan cheese Thin-sliced hard baguette Olive oil Yum!
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member Clerihew Annigoni

In Italian Pietro Annigoni
a portraitist 'differente' we do see
Updated renaissance is seen
see for example that of our late Queen*

*Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Form: Clerihew

Get a Premium Membership
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace