Short Kansas Poems

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


Premium Member Dog Days

Dog days pass slowly
air is thick but there ain't no
miracle waitin
funnel cloud on horizon
and we’re still in Kansas, friend.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member underground city in Kansas City

dark in missouri
large underground city
a subtropolis

I have never been
not fond of caves or the dark
but it still exists
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Billy Campfield

Billy Campfield What a football career he would yield. Billy started as a Kansas Jayhawk. He ran, he didn’t walk.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Kansas Climate

Kansas used to be brown and dry
She is green with fluffy trees now
She used to be hot in August
Now she is at a hundred degrees in May

Premium Member no fear of tornadoes

I live in kansas
without fear of tornadoes
in underground house

she might take my roof
but I am twenty feet down
grounded in cement
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Midwesterner's Lament

     Kentucky never did pull me
        Neither did Tennessee

     Kansas, best left to Dorothy
        ~ O, for the beaches of Waikiki
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Kansas Black Rat Snake

kansas black rat snake
foot longer than my garage door
where are you going

i name you blackie
glad you are a mouse eater
youre welcome to stay
Form: Senryu

Premium Member A Canvas for Kansas

Glow- sky
Crows fly

Airy
Prairie

River
Giver

Aids flow
Blades grow

Gold plains
hold grains

Vista’s
kisses:

Vast strands
grasslands
Form: Footle

Premium Member Dandelion Doily

good morning my frothy white mini doily
love your lacy presence welcoming another day
you may be barren by nightfall my beauty
Kansas winds blowing your seeds away
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cobweb Holds Her Own

Dainty gauzy cobweb holds on valiantly retaining essence
Impressing Kansas fescue grasses and lovely Queen Anne ’s lace
Not intimidated by cool northern Arctic winds
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Kansas in May

A pillow and a blanket I have brought up here
It’s marvelous today, warm balmy air
Rejuvenating me, as nothing else can
Kansas in May, better than the promised land
day

Premium Member the heat

too hot to smile
too humid to move
too stagnant to do anything

July’s heat has incapacitated me
will August be a blazing inferno in Kansas?
or will autumn come early?

Premium Member Hanging Listless Wind Chimes

the wind chimes hang aimlessly
a rare event on a summer day in Kansas
they are usually whipping around
jingling a cheery tune
as if we are getting ready to be blown to Oz

Premium Member Possibly a Limerick

One time in a Kansas named No-Sleep
There lived a proud woman named Peep
She fought and she threw fit
Tongue seemed a marvelous whit
This no-sleep Grand-MaMa, Mrs. Tweet.
Form: Limerick

Wintergreen

Wintergreen bubblegum, 
Alaska spearmint slick
Saliva cool trickling down
Hot like Kansas big red
cinnamon tongue
Fingertips 
Lust & summer fire,
US nowhere and desire

Premium Member A Kansas Tornado

No escapees from this tornado
July and August so busy
Disheveled yards and faces
Trampolines blown over
Wind chimes blown to bits
Tearing things up
Ominous 
Kansas 
Wind

Premium Member an overcast Kansas Day

an overcast Kansas day
the kind that gives you a sunburn
without any sun
the clouds are dark grayish blue
thick sluggish unmoving
I stare into them seeking my Archangel Michael

Premium Member late October in Kansas

winter is on hold
October feels like summer
Kansas looks like the Ozarks
hills and trees, trees and hills
ninety-two degree day in late October
weirdly no longer abnormal in Kansas

Thank You Don Quixote

There you are! 

I thought you gone
      the way of the record player.

Toilet lid tied to your hand,
a light saber held up high,
tilting at metal windmills
on a Kansas prairie.

Premium Member Pike's Peak

PIKE’S PEAK – (14,000 feet + )

Shallow stream
    Across the mountain path
Along the sand and pebbles
    meandering…

Rest stop
    and just off the trail
        then WAY off …Kansas!

Slammin' Slammers

C'mon all you slammers, take your best shot
I'll tell ya' once more (In case you forgot)
Already kissed the canvas
Had my ass kicked to Kansas
You kiddin', that's it? Is THAT all you got?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Kansas Temperatures this Week

temperatures this week
Monday through Sunday
72, 69, 58, 31, 28, oh-no, hot damn
Welcome to Kansas
No different than the rest of the Midwest
I can hardly wait for Saturday and Sunday

Premium Member Kansas Crow

caw
scarecrow
stuffed straw
annoying voice
Kansas farm staple
the bird sits on dummy
overlooking sunflowers
nailed to a cheap gallows frame
farmer Jacob’s discarded clothes and straw
Form: Nonet

Premium Member Munchkinland Remix

"Kansas, she says, is the name of the star"
as for my mom's place, it was Mira Mar :)

"When she fell out of Kansas, a miracle occurred"
after we moved, my grandma's house remodel deferred
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Crazy Winter Weather

Crazy it is sixty degrees today
Jack Frost’s winter has been warned off
Warm gentle eastern-ly breeze
Three days after Christmas
It’s almost balmy
This is Kansas
Feels like
Florida
Though
Form: Nonet

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