Short Michigan Poems

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


Michigan

An unlucky young man from Michigan
Had a very unusual condichigan
He got sick from a hake
That he found in the lake
And now he can never eat fishigan
Form: Limerick


Chicago

I like to spend time in Chicago  
on old Oak Street beach along Lago 
Michigan.  There I can
watch girls tan and hear a man 
talk of his windy city long ago.
© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Saginaw

I flapped my arms
I flew to Saginaw
Never came back
I'm still in Saginaw
I'd like to fly home
But I'd just get busted
I'm so disgusted
Gotta stay in Saginaw.
Form: Rhyme

Renewed

Squeezing out a different meaning,
with each new moment passed

The choices honed, all time dethroned
—no instant first or last

(Mackinac City Michigan: July, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Winter Wonder Land - Rev

It's wintertime again.
In little Michigan.
The eighty-foot pines
are swayed by the wind.
A clipper brings cold.
And drives more snow.
Here in little Michigan.
Our Winter Wonder Land.


Premium Member Which Island Is the Lilac King

heavenly lilac fragrance wafts in June
Mackinac Island Festival is in full aromatic display
Michigan rivals Terceira for bragging rights title
Lilac Island King unsure why they cannot share it

Rainbow's Bend, Michigan

Rainbow's Bend,
                 Of Michigan,
                           Score's Light!

Rainbow's Bend,
                   Of Michigan's
                                  .... God's, Might!
© Mike Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Detroit Michigan

DETROIT IS:

D ynamic
E nergetic
T ough
R evitalized
O ptimistic
I nventive
T riumphant

M ajor
I ncentitives for
C ompanies to
H ighlight
I nventions and
G rowth
A mong
N ew Detroit
Form: Acrostic

Detroit Michigan

We may have high crime rates, but there's nothing like living by the Great Lakes. I live in Detroit Michigan Where I Live Contest Sponsor: Silent One October 3, 2016
Form: Verse

Premium Member I wanna go back to Michigan

I wanna go back to Michigan
so I catch me some really good fish again.
The fish from any other U.S. lake
tend to give me such a bellyache,
that I can't wait to have a Michigan fish on my dish again.
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Vagabond

The Vagabond By Tom Wright There was a traveler named Trent, From a city in Michigan called Flint. He traveled so much, He was never in touch, Seems each time he arrived he went.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Custer's Omen

Wolverine shadows
 in the Michigan mist
Blood trail encampment
 on yesterday’s tryst

Teeth at the ready
 fortune can’t hide
Death for a tribute
— when vengeance abides

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ode To Blue Lighthouse

Blue lighthouse on Lake Michigan, how incredible you be.
Window glows dancing to lead in the sailors at sea.
There are no words to describe your heroic beauty.
Your guidance means the world to my family and me.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Michigan Waterfalls

Angelic in beauty 
also in sound 
flowing over tarnished rocks 
carefree in the Lost world 
known as the Upper Peninsula 
tourist come from other states 
just to explore, hike and sightsee 
they're splendid beauty

Reveal the Secret Not

In the extreme corner of Michigan lake,

When the inhabiting birds flying over our heads singing,

Picking the smile of children offered free;
 
I whispered in your ears like seashells-

A secret,

Reveal it to anyone,not,

Even in your dreams!
Form: Imagism

Premium Member carrot and cabbage pies

Detroit rabbit couple ride their fish balloon in the Michigan skies
They like what they are throwing; there is happiness in their eyes
We wonder if they know what they are doing; as they throw out some pies
Made of carrots and cabbages, not delectable unless you are flies.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Land of the Frozen

The wind is as cold as it has ever gotten
My nose would be crying if it could breathe.
I am afraid if I bump it against a tree limb 
it will snap off. It is frozen and brittle now.
Kansas winter, not as horrible as Michigan
But right up there in the tundra lands of frozen.

Premium Member Little Michigan

It's winter again
in little Michigan
The north wind
has grown cold.

Seem to need
brand new boots
These leaky ones
Have old holes.

Those stratus clouds
Prove the truth
With six inches
of new snow.

It's winter again
in little Michigan
GOD bless our
Home Sweet Home.
Form: Quatrain

Autumn Snow

In Michigan we received Autumn Snow,
You'd think that we would already know
That our weather can be really severe,
During any certain time of the year
This just makes me miss Autumn more,
Cause the changing colors I do so adore
I'm hoping Autumn will reappear,
For it only comes but once a year
Form: ABC

Premium Member Oscoda, Michigan Memories

golden fried doughnuts
ice cream made of new snowfall
backyard starlit woods

moonlight children's tales
still lingering in my mind
Halloween treat bags

adopted kitties
a Christmas tree from the woods
homemade ornaments

bluebirds passing by
saffron sun low in the sky
happy childhood days
Form: Haiku

Premium Member State of Insanity

I’ve doodled and dawdled in Delaware,
Piddled in Pennsylvania without care,
I’ve been to New York and Alabama,
Michigan, Missouri and Montana. 
I’ve travelled in every state, my friend,
And I can tell you that, in the end,
If you lose your mind - see how it can be - 
The very best one is insanity.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Nature's Joke

NATURE’S JOKE

what’s going on here
mid march and eighty degrees?
laughter in the breeze

sun in Michigan
houses with windows open?’
laugh now    cry later

golfers out early
courses are brown    but busy
look north    funnel cloud

beer sales up    gas too
you’d never know it’s hard times
dig a deeper hole
Form: Haiku

Clouds and a Moment

Clouds and a moment

When a cloud rolled over lake Michigan 
cast an eerie spell of otherness over the lake
the stillness was profound when a bird
shrieked in horror.

When the cloud disappeared up yonder
a ferry crossed the lake's undulating water
reached the shore as a wet handshake 
of monotony.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member God Gifts Me Another Day

God peeks through the clouds
His eyes shining with pride
Glad about the cool, clear water
Excited about gifting us a fresh new day.
I look across Lake Michigan and meet God’s gaze
Feeling beloved, as he instills joy into my heart
And encourages the lake to bring me peace
I feel optimistic and revitalized.
god

Auburn In the Wind

Leaves on a Japanese Maple
dance auburn in the wind
remind me of that mother

crossing Michigan Avenue
before the light changes
one hand on her buggy

the other on her little boy
wind in her auburn hair
a long pennant flaring

telling all of Chicago
it's Spring, by gosh!
it’s finally here


Donal Mahoney

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