Short Marbles Poems

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


Premium Member Blaming Everyone Else

life hands out marbles
I swallow mine on purpose
clogging my body
loudly choking and screaming
blaming everyone else now
Form: Tanka


Silly Shrew

Tiny, insignificant little shrew
Spinning lies which you spew
The rubber walls are calling you
Marbles left, you have but few
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Marbles Life

Lines in the marble are its life road map. A hard life, is the marble’s, beautiful soul, when carved.
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Bonkers

beautiful blue ball
     it’s spin is the game we play~

            we lost our marbles



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(bonker- large marble)
Form: Senryu

Outburst Number Three

and 
so-called
friends who 
fill their medicine
cabinets with marbles
before inviting people round
for dinner: Not funny. Not funny.
Form: Shape


Premium Member METAPHOR WALKING CATERPILLAR--

8 legs skimpering like marbles with hairy legs walks caterpillar
7/7/26 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr
Form: Haiku

Premium Member 8 feet for birdie at 11

magpie to magpie
have those fools lost their marbles
chasing birdie eggs
on green grass down holes in one ~ 
let's show the mugs how its done
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Child Play

i have all my marbles and some time 
they make a racket in my head
to distract you of the ordeal to be sane
as where will be the fun to on earth
fun

Premium Member You'll have to win them if you want them

The bully met his match.
His bag of marbles his prized possession.
Little Mark challenged the brute.


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member ancient romes technology

ancient Rome’s buildings
proof of the technology
an advanced culture

twelve sided marbles
no one knows how they were made
a bronze masterpiece

Premium Member Losing My Marbles and Then Some

I scratched my head
    my brain fell out
  It ambled 'cross the table

  Stared at me
    most curiously, grinned ~
  Then pronounced me disabled
Form: Rhyme

Remember When

Remember when
all it required 
for a full and contented life
was a friend or two 
some marbles in your pocket
a stick of liquorice
and a hot sunny day.

Premium Member I'm Cuckoo, Nuts, Completely Daft

Like an addled cuckoo that garbles
the birdsong that he warbles,
I've experienced many strains.  
I've got gremlins in my brains,
and I've lost my marbles.
Form: Rhyme

Twinkle Twinkle Parody

Simmer ember tiny star
Supernova from a far
Azure wave through the void
Shattering marbles like glass toys
Simmer ember tiny star
Supernova all to char
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Los Marbles

polishing pieces
                               fragments of a broken brain

                                       spinning poetry







MagiCicada17
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Good Old Days At Play

FORTIES PLAYTIME

Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007
Form: Cinquain

Losing Ones Marbles

Where now my marbles I had a while ago
Once bright colours dimmer brightly glow
But worn my old mind still sees
Things lost you cannot please
Happy ecstasy I am now with my beau
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member memories of my childhood

red rover
dodgeball
the ghost is out tonight
badminton
tetherball
marbles
skates
bikes
trikes
picnics
memories of my childhood
obscure now
children are inside
staring at screens
Form: List

Flaming With Marbles

THESE

 marbles that roll

inside my head

BECOME

 a flaming fire

when I dream in bed

AWAKENINGS

from these nightly rituals

writing this crap down is

 my morning habitual

About Marbles Are Many Theories

About Marbles Are Many Theories

About marbles there are many theories,
So we then decided to develop a series,
Name of mess,
A wild guess;
Called them agates, steelies and clearies.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member I Became a Hustler

When I discovered marbles can take marbles
I became a hustler
I was a pro
I took marble after marble
Some cried
I rarely gave their marble back
It was a competition
Taken fairly
I feel no guilt

Days of Marbles

Days of marbles

where recess

would find us

in the old school yard

gathering around

the circle we had made,

hoping we would fill our

bag full, before the bell rang.


Written 5-30-11

Premium Member Tailspin

Listen to poem:
my head's in a whirl 
life a perpetual blur

seems like yesterday
i played marbles
in the school yard

now i'm old and wrinkled
constantly wondering 
where it is and when i'm at



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Premium Member staring at my honeysuckle tree

honey loaf? honey thistle? honey suckle?
I stare at the renegade tree
She has exploded with tiny bright orbs
smaller than marbles, deadly, poisonous berries
this tree will be here many mountainous lifetimes after I am gone.

What even is this?

• Blazing hot ice • Chilly open flames • Animals wearing clothes • Humans with no names • Empty houses with legs • Rats hatching from eggs • Marbles from the water faucet • Shucking pods and getting pegs in
© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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