Short Motor Poems

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


Road Rage

We know all roads lead to Rome
So you drive a posh Motor Home
For goodness sake
Elate your mate
And lose that damn garden gnome!
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Starts My Motor A-Purring

There must be a better way to start each day Than waking up each morning, what do you say In the arms of girlie Now that would surely Start my motor a-purring in a delightful way
fun
Form: Limerick

uptight

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all time classic soul
music from a poor man’s son
turn that volume up
for the motor city sound
now everything is alright
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Charges One's Motor

Seventy degrees in Canada in October You'd think I've been drinking but I'm totally sober Take it while we can Cold weather's soon at hand Enjoy! Enjoy! This sure charges one's motor
Form: Limerick

Haiku 6 - Motor Cycle, Jet Aircraft, Ocean Liner

motorcycle roars
penetrating the quiet night
shattering the silence

aircraft on the runway
jet engines scream before lift off
to the clouds above

on the waterfront
ocean liner calling her flock
- the loud blaring horn
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Charges One's Motor

Seventy degrees in Canada in October Think I've been drinking but I'm totally sober Take it while we can Cold weather's soon at hand Enjoy! Enjoy! This sure charges one's motor © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Motor

Motor

O grande motor da vida
é o sonho,...Sempre 
que uma pessoa sonha 
o mundo pula 
como bola colorida 
nas mãos de uma criança.

O sonho 
é batom,
é espuma, 
é fermento, 
bichinho 
de focinho pontudo, 
que fossa através de tudo 
num perpétuo movimento
de fazer mais e mais.

when the motor cut

the skiff chugs along
toward the end of the lake
where the tall peaks rise

snowcapped mountains ripple
across a backwash

an eagle
glides in a blue distance

a red and yellow float
mirrors itself
below the surface

one silvery fish slipping 
under
a deeply swimming sun

no way to catch that

Premium Member Motor Mouth Clyde

the new employee was a walking cartoon
opening his mouth proved he was a buffoon
would have seemed wiser if he could have kept quiet
said the weirdest things, thought he was a riot

we ran from the lunchroom as soon as we spied
the exaggerator, who made up things, and always lied.
Did we ever give him a chance? Yes some of us tried.
But he was a horror, this motor-mouth, Clyde.
Form: Rhyme

When the Motor Cut

The outboard chugged along 
toward the end of the lake
where the tall peaks were.

When the motor cut, all was still.
Then snowcapped mountains 
began to rise-up from the lake;
eagles flew under our hull.

Imagine staring at your float,
humped like a heron over the bow
while a panoramic sky 
moved under your boots.
Imagine Rainbow trout
sailing around the sun.

No way to catch that.

Premium Member A Little Motor Inside Me

I pointed to a little motor inside me
  My teacher shook her head
Said, 'No such thing, no such name'
  Left her classroom burning with shame

All the same I heard it a-whirring and purring
  Directing my footsteps, so reassuring
Though not on a path my teacher would like
  I felt it touch my soul, almost dreamlike

Never did I return to that cursed classroom
  I needed my freedom so I could bloom
My motor inside would propel me to heights
  ~ no longer beholden to artificial light
Form: Couplet

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