Short Nails Poems

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


Long Nails

some look like tail
like a wail
they don't fail
to hurt
just stay alert
make sure
theyer  in a pail
those
with
LONG NAILS


Finger Nails

minded has a gloss
that show
i kept them clean
its part of my dream
its seen
to always have pail
to care for my
FINGER NAILS

Toe Nails

i  uese paint
i don't fsnit
to me theyer or a link
they help me  think
am not kink
they never fail
i love 
MY TOE
NAILS

Cofin Nails

35 years tonight without my mother,
Way longer than the time I spent with you,
Missing the fun we could have had,

db May 2014

Nails

or they clean
have a gleen
or a sheen
 or is this just a drem
i thank of you
washing your in a  pail
taken care of your
NAILS
Form:


Hammer and Nails

its still builds
if you have the will
and the skill
than began
take it from friend
just fill the pail
or oder by mail
HAMMER AND NAILS

Premium Member Pastel Blue Nails

Pale pastel blue nails
As blue as translucent sea,
Waves pale as white sails,
Complimentary to toes
Matching my summer beach clothes.
Form: Tanka

Nails and a Pail

some have them cleam
its not  or dream
and not mean
to wash have at a stand
as you clean your hands
and dip in like a wail
its 
NAILS AND PAIL

Hands and Finger Nails

the hands
they can
do many things
also be in pain
wipe face if it rain
also protexes from snow hail
play music in a band
its
HANDS AND FINGERS NAILS

Premium Member Look At Those Nails

Look at those nails
I never saw anything like them
How do you open a door?
Make a hamburger
Thread a needle?
Type?
Hug a baby.
Without puncturing it?

Premium Member Red Nails

highlighting red nails while playing the piano camera is mean to the foreigner Minto he can wear what nails he likes 7/25/2016
© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Cheap Nookie Nails Rookie

The Secret Service don't need to shout
They're randy buggers inside and out!
Wherever they go
The whole world will know
They got the girl (reeled in like a trout)!
Form: Limerick

If Husband His Nails Gnawing Like Rabbit,

If  husband his nails gnawing like rabbit,
I show the way to quit nasty habit.
No point to  treat  poor husband  with  scoff
Just rip off his teeth, or nails his rip off !
Form: Quatrain

Finger Nails and Pail

to kept the clean
is not a dream
its not mean
and it not a tail
to have nice finger nail
you need the pot drop
water flows like a wail
for the
FINGER NAILS AND THE PAIL

My Nails Started Biting

My Nails Started Bighting

Things around now have tightened
And made it has made me fighting
Polls never seem to be fair
Also are hard to compare
My nails have started biting.

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

Premium Member Curly Shirley

young daughter
gives mom a pedicure
~  chores can wait



AP: 2nd place 2026, Honorable Mention 2026

Submitted on October 5, 2025 to contest MINI-KU sponsored by Charles Messina - RANKED 2ND
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Who Did Your Nails

Trudy came to school wearing pink and orange nails.
Everyone asked who had done these for her.
We all made appointments.
Including me, and I do not let anyone paint my nails.
I just did not want to be left out.
me

Premium Member Nails, Nails and Nails

Nails
Tool box
Where’s the hammer?
They take a good pounding.
Nails

Nails
Women speak
A good salon
Painted, polished, and glossed.
Nails

Nails
Lone tool
My worst nightmare
Clawing out of coffin
Nails
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member NAILS THROUGH THE OLIVE WOOD

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dust swirls where sandals once pressed into thirsty earth~ now footprints vanish. A voice whispers through the fig: Child, why search among the dead?
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Diamond of Joy

                   Fingers
               Long, slender
      Tapping, painting, holding  
Creating tiny canvases for my niece
      Pinking, twinkling, glittering 
             Tiny, cherished
                    Nails
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Of Nails and Wood

(A funny Tanka)


Innkeeper: Rooms $15
A night.It's $5 if you make
Your own bed.Guest says:
I'll make my own.Inkeeper:
"Great,"Get you some nails and wood!


Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2011


September, 10,2014
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Nails

My brother calls me "Hammer Head"
Cause I eat Nails !
My sister calls me "Tacky"
Cause I eat Nails !
My friends call me "Spike"
Just because I eat Nails !
Everyone says I am a 
"glutton for punishment"
I just can't seem to stop,
Biting on my Nails !

I Cut My Toe Nails

I carve out my dried husked hope

And in the cave I hide the desperation
of living

Carefully, I cover the opening with the foliage
of normalcy

The Job
The Wife
Pay the rent
Stop at the red lights

And I wait for time to pass

To pass me by
as I cut my toe nails

Premium Member why are my nails thick

I have been eating more vegetables lately
my fingernails are thickening
they were never sturdy before, but they are now

Is it the potatoes? The carrots? The corn?
Could it be the lettuce?
Or is it my age?

Do faeries meet at night and polish them with magic hardening gel?
I may never know

Hammer N Nails

Hammer my purpose;
go on do it. 
Tell me why I’m here,
I dare you. 
Oh, you don’t have any nails?
Well here, take mine. 
Oh, mine aren’t the right ones?
My apologies, go get your own.
Just pin my dreams up,
with your nails and hammer them in. 
They’ll be mine but they’ll always be held up by you.

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