Short Neighbors Poems

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


Premium Member Wood fences versus metal fences

Wood fences are better neighbors they keep the outside world out when metal fences let you see what you don't want to see
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Lancaster, Ny

Lancaster, New York

Mid-west town of the East where neighbors are friends and friends are family!

Written 10.04.2016
Form: Monoku

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Never invited
Lost in the bottle from you
I didn't cause this
You told lies to my landlord
The neighbors warned me of you
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Rumors and Whiskers

Rumors, hearsay and whispers
frolicked midst a newsman's whiskers
    His wife told the neighbors
      ~ He no longer kissed her

Christmas Day Tragedy

Christmas day--
as neighbors celebrate
he lays in the bath,lifeless!




CONTEST:"NOT SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS" sponsored by Andrea Dietrich.
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Flowers Pretense

purple violets
picket fence hides the rough stuff
family misery.

yellow daffodil
showing the world perky,
fooling the neighbors
Form: Haiku

Same Difference

Colour is color 
Favour now favor

Pyjamas is pajamas
Neighbours now neighbors

But a kiss is still a kiss
Affection from a distance
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
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Family

Friends I have
And neighbors, too
Most of them, won’t point me true.
I can always 
Lean on you
You will tell me, just where I’m screwed.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Spying On Neighbors

fanciest binoculars I have ever seen
spying on neighbors, so far unseen
love seeing that Daddy kick out his screen
hiding now, not as keen
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Gifts On May Day

the gift of flower baskets Mother remembers giving to neighbors and nature's present to me swallows have returned this day
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Spring Habit

plain and naked oaks
white-out-green on ev’ry branch —
neighbors disappear

2/23/2021
Spring Traditional Haiku
Sponsor: Malabika Choudhury
Form: Haiku

Premium Member bug collector

charles james collects red ants

despite neighbors angry rants

it is time you quit

even as you sit

hundreds gather in your pants.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Barking Dog

A barking dog never bites
yeah, right, just try telling that to the neighbors German Shepherd!!

The Awwwsome Driving Lesson

The neighbors were running in fear
As into front room car did steer
What fate had approved
His words soon removed
Your parking’s improving my dear
Form: Limerick

Premium Member the neighbor's think

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          ha ha ha ha
        ha ha ha 
              ha ha hahhhh

     my bad
            ha hahhh
   
       huh
           neighbors

Premium Member autumn guy

this is the tale of ed jeeves

notorious friend of thieves

each fall he will rise

to much darkened skies

and pilfer neighbors red leaves.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Jazz Loving Beagle

A jazz loving beagle in Fairfax
digs Dizzy and Miles to the max
But it’s now hip-hop and punk
No more groovin’ to Monk
He visits neighbors just to relax
Form: Limerick

Premium Member One More Miracle

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
  to tell all the neighbors that I know

After eight straight nights of Chanukah
  there's still one more miracle to go
Form: Rhyme

Plus Ca Change

Song: "Yesterday", The Beatles

Yesterday I had lots of fun with Sugar Ray,
Now the neighbors yell out words like ‘gay’.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member retirement

dog catcher ferguson jeeves

found a new job raking leaves

since he turned eighty one

neighbors now have more fun

he's no longer spreading fleas.
Form: Limerick

A Conversation

Husband says "the neighbors got their driveway repaired."

Wife says, "so that is what I smell....It's  their assphalt!!


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Premium Member Paint the Town Connubial

In Aussie-land dwell the marsupials
By night they paint the town connubial
   They make them a joey
   Named Zoey or Chloe
Neighbors jump for joy indubitable
Form: Limerick

Premium Member unlikely hero

since i fell through a glass pane

the neighbors have not seen rain

and since we dont go out

due to the recent drought

i'm hero of the floodplain.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Halloween Stink

On Halloween, Tim wanted to scare;
although much to his neighbors' despair;
he dressed as a poo;
went up and said, "Boo!"
No one told him that Pooh was a bear!
Form: Limerick

Running Naked

Fire!  Fire!

I heard the neighbors shouting.

I leaped from my bed

Naked, and grabbed my pants,

fearing the ladies would laugh.



For the "Last Chance" contest
Form: Tanka

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