Short Local Poems

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


Premium Member Local Warming

'Twas so hot that I shivered
     My lips so dry they quivered

  Salty tears clouded my eyes
     my plumbing bowdlerized
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Local Grub (Old Style)

Aylesbury duck in port
Currant jelly sauce
Bucks bread with beef dripping spread
Then cherry bumpers;
Dandelion and
Burdock brew
Whew!
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member woodworkers local

dwalin fosneys working fame

brought woodworkers daily shame

census then taken

one morning bacon

found his limbs joined to a frame.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member My Local Mortician

"I tie the shoelaces together on my dead," says my local mortician, 
"because if a zombie apocalypse were ever to happen,
 it will most certainly be an hilarious situation."
Form: Rhyme

On the Occasion of the Local Elections In Devizes

The votes of the folk of The Vize
Be all Tory, well there's a surprise
The hills are all blue
With a loud tally hoo
What's to do? I don't know but one tries

© Gail Foster 5th May 2017
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had some blood taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her nursey attire
fun
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
fun
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For her afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Our Local Vampire


Had a sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire
fun
Form: Limerick

The Local Plant Sale

A brawl broke out at the local plant sale
The normally meek started to flail
Their begonias and orchids around
Geraniums were ripped right out of the ground
Look at them wrong and they'll fight you without fail.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Our Local Vampire

Had a blood sample taken by our local vampire Saw traces of blood on her teeth when she smiled She drew an extra flask For an afternoon snack She sure looked scary in her vampire attire © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Local Pervert

I remember an old coot named Sam Ball For him many a young girl took a fall He was a lecherous old fool Yeah, I would say he was a ghoul Young girls ran away when he came to call.
written July 6, 2021
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Local Draft Choice

Once lived an energetic lad in Montreal He was rather large, I would say, seven feet tall Tough as old shoe leather He did not care whether He played with varsity team basketball, at all.
written July 23, 2021
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Local Curmudgeon

A surly old codger in Panama City Said of the annual tourists "What a pity!" Groused at the snow birds With crudest curse words While chanting a mariner's naughty sea ditty.
Written May 8, 2021 in Panama City Beach, Florida
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Local Mill

Old local mill stands
A shell of stones
Abandoned
In the times
So long ago
He was a child
Running through
Tall grasses
Dad grinding
The flour Mom
Needed to 
For daily bread
Now it stands
A shell of stones



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Premium Member Local Idiot

Vigilante wannabe
Intentions always good
Lost causes are his nemesis
Loyalty his strength
Abysmally annoying
Gauche socially to say the least
Egomaniac~ there’s one in every village



AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Form: Acrostic

Local Business Man Saved By A Foreign Woman

Bussing immigrants to high-end neighborhoods makes immigration status worse. After an Ecuadorian women gave Heimlich to a man choking on a Scampi, she was once again bussed elsewhere without a single thank you. People in these areas reported people being saved by these immigrants. FYI: everyone in America are immigrants
Form: Rhyme

Local News

Local news

Elderly woman hit by a bus.
She was elderly people,
So what's all the fuss?
She  had a full life, 
What more can you say?
These elderly people,
They get in the way.
When you are old 
You should stay at home.
What  was she thinking?
going out all alone.
And as I read on I thought,
Can this be?
This elderly woman 
Was  younger than me.
Form: Rhyme

A Local Dish

The lunch

It was a beautiful autumnal day 
The colours after rain was green and auburn,
I stopped at an inn had beans with
onions and bits of pork.
Great food, but I should have known it is
a food one ought to eat at home. 
Police patrol, an officer with shiny boots
that appeared to reach his elbows, opened
the door, then quickly closed it
wishing me a good journey.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Local Champion

In the neighborhood, some conqueror born,
Another color blending with fawn:
On his forehead, a sitting half horn.
In the flesh of the rest, a thorn
But among them just brightly shone! 
All his moves of leniency shorn…
The others offering only the chances to mourn.
All these, after their True Champion was gone…
Nothing else Local Champions fully trust,
Their ungovernable hands  of iron, a must.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member X-Mas at the Local Saloon

    Porky Pig and Dairy Cow-Moon
        did up X-mas at the local saloon

     Where Olive Oil and Pepe le pew
        had already downed more than a few

     Porky Pig and Cow-Moon
        joined in by singing a tune... 

    But when they courted disaster
        by all getting plastered  

     They were tossed out on their keisters
        ~ and didn’t get sober ‘til almost Easter
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Loss Never Stays Local

Wisconsin senators fled the state
To prove they can stall democracy
Spending more proving their point
Bent on saving the public workers
Another day their boss has turned
Against options gained as rewards
Everyone is seeing the hard times
It is written on the populus face
When will we stop funding schools
In countries that feel we invaded
As if being afraid makes us safer
Nothing alone is something sacred
Only together do we return favors
© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.

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